What is your favorite coral?

I will have room a lot of coral. I just have to knnow what to ask for. I can always just point to things that I like in the LFS but that's a dangerous game since they tend to stock large and rare corals: translation=$$$$.

 

my blasto's (blastomussa) are my favorite. I have a purple one and a red one. i keep an eye out for more... easily my favorite.

 

I love SPS tanks.
But I can't resist some LPS.
My favorite in my tank is my Pink Goniopora with blue mouths.
Second favorite is true Kryptonite candy cane.
I also love acans.
So many dream chalice out there but grow too slow and the good ones are tooo expensive.

Favorite SPS:
ORA red planet(own)
Fire and Ice Echinata(wish list)
Garf Banzai(own)
Aqua Delight(wish list)
ORA Oregon tort(had died)
Mystic sunset montipora
Sunset montipora
30000 lokani
Pink and Yellow Mill (own)
Blue Turaki(had died)
Superman Monitpora (own)
Purple haze(own)
ORA Green and Pink birdnest(own)
Tyree Idaho grape(own)
Pink Stylophora(wish list)
Strawberry fields acro(own)
ORA blue chips acro (own)
Montipora setosa (own) not doing so good
Tyree Pink lemonade( own)

 

Green Encrusting Monti is my fav SPS so far:



And my Blue zoos

 

Yeah.. some of those corals I listed cost Upwards of a hundred bucks for a tiny frag. I would start browsing the local club around D.C. I bought most of those for 15-20 bucks a piece from local guys. A couple I bought in the store for 70ish.

 

Would be better to show them instead of just talking about them. Your lucky Luna has'nt got on ya yet.

 

Sadly I don't own many corals yet but the ones that are on the top of my list are dendros and duncans. I also love the white lightning sponge.

 

Dendro and duncan are two of my favorites. Check out our dendro thread for some pictures and info. Dendros can be rather finicky, but that's part of the fun! Check out Reefnjunkie's dendro - it's spectacular!

http://www.3reef.com/forums/coral-health/dendro-owners-70868.html

Mushrooms are good to start with. The blue mushroom rock just had a few when I got it - it's almost covered now. I love ricordeas and have several. Several of mine have split. I also have a orange yuma that is very bright.





The hammer coral was one of my first - I started with 3 small heads and now it's the size of a baseball.



My favorite zoanthid - Tub's blues

 

To be honest, I would completely avoid any corals that tend to take over a tank. This includes xenia, anthelia, green star polyps, mushrooms and certain zoanthids. This is especially important if you end up wanting to keep a lot of sps corals.

That being said, I am an sps coral fan, my favorites being the sunset, superman and rainbow montiporas. Because they are encrusting, you have to take care to not place them too close to other montiporas or they will burn each other. I don't believe that they can endure a sting from an acro so they tend to "avoid" growing into each other.

 

My ORA 'Joe the Coral'

A nice blue/green color with really large polyps for a SPS.