Need help with idea for a new coral. Pictures in thread of empty location.

[STiTCH87]

I wanna put a coral in my tank to fill up the empty spot between my ricordia and my blasto.

Any ideas?

Keep in mind zoas and playthoas hate my tank (water too clean maybe? IDK)
And the lights aren't suitable enough to keep SPS.

I also don't want anything that will grow so tall that it's block view of my other corals.

I'm lost for ideas. And please do not suggest purple cloves, GSP, or xenia because that stuff tends to grow OVER other corals and takes over the tank too quickly and I don't like that.

 

[afrankiewicz12]

candy canes?

 

[STiTCH87]

Thought about it, but they branch outward and would eventually block view of my acans.

I was thinking a frag of something that grow outward but low. Similar to how blastos grow. Or more mushrooms. I wish a plate coral could live on a rock.

 

[jeremy052274]

Duncans?

 

[afrankiewicz12]

this is gonna be hard cause u want no SPS(which includes incrusting), no zoas or palys, nothing sticking out(most softies), and nothing that will grow to fast... lol thats pretty much every coral

 

[STiTCH87]

Underwater World DOES have some very nice blueish green duncans I liked last time I went. Are they easy to keep? My filter drops water right beside where they'd sit so i'd describe my tank as medium to high as far as how clean the water is, and with moderate to heavy flow and moderate lighting. Would that be suitable?

Are they photosynthetic or do you have to feed them? I know I looked all this up once before but I forget

Are they easier than dendros?

 

[STiTCH87]

Welcome to the issue i'm having! LOL!

What about a chalice? Do those need heavy light? From what I understand they're technically not SPS not LPS.






Pretty sure I just decided I want a duncan! After just reading a bit about them I think that is EXACTLY what i'm looking for!

Do they only come in that greenish blue or do they come in other colors?

 

[dz6t]

You don't need to feed duncans.
How about another kind of rics?

 

[pillowfish]

I would pick something orange, dendros are yellowish/orange.

 

[joek99]

Chalice come in a wide variety of amazing colors, red green, multicolored hurricanes etc. Just be careful of sweeper tentacles. Some can be very aggressive.

 

[jeremy052274]

Underwater World DOES have some very nice blueish green duncans I liked last time I went. Are they easy to keep? My filter drops water right beside where they'd sit so i'd describe my tank as medium to high as far as how clean the water is, and with moderate to heavy flow and moderate lighting. Would that be suitable?

Are they photosynthetic or do you have to feed them? I know I looked all this up once before but I forget

Are they easier than dendros?

I'm no expert, have had one head of the green duncan for maybe a month. It is both photosynthetic and eats - mine very readily takes anything I throw at it...but as someone said above, you don't have to feed it. I know of the green one I have, and I'm in the market for a purple myself. Not sure of other kinds - but plenty of folks here can tell you more than I know. It is one of my favorite frags. Btw, I have a dendro that I really love as well...I haven't found either very difficult. But I think the dendro requires feeding where a duncan is more optional.

 

[STiTCH87]

I LOVE dendros and would love to have one, but i'm afraid of having to feed them so often that it'd become expensive to keep,m and also that feeding them so often in a little 5g tank I don't want to foul up my water to quickly.

I do want more ricordia at some point, but they're just so expensive per polyps so i'm looking for a good deal to pop around.

Are chalice difficult to keep? They're so cool and i'd love to have one but IDK if my tank is suitable and a $50+ mistake would hurt bad.

 

[dz6t]

Chalice are easy to keep and they grow relatively slow.

 

[HuuTa]

goni

 

[frank180reef]

gonis are hard to keep and the red ones are pricey,
the ric may be the way to go, low and grows well.............
duncans arent difficult fwiw

 

[Grey-Skull]

Your tank looks great, the rock is incredible, How old is your tank? My rock is not even close to the colors you have.

 

[STiTCH87]

Tank is around 5 months old. Thanks for the compliment. =]
Yeah my rocks are super super super purple.

They were fairly purple when I first got the rock too though:

Rocks came from a 10 year old tank though so... Yeah they were super duper cycled and stuff.

I don't dose anything but I think my constant water changed with IO salt with calcium additive maybe helps to keep coralline growing idk.



Goni's are tough to keep, and ask for expense yeah they can be. Underwaterworld has a nice red one for sale in their frag tank in the upper right corner kinda hidden for those interested. Atleast I think I remember it being red.

May look into dendros but I deff like duncans. I'll likely try a chalice some day but i'd want an LED upgrade first.

 

[JohnK]

I know you said you don't have the light for SPS, but I can't help but picture a monti digitata in that spot.

It would branch and reach out, but not in such a thick growth form that it would block much, and IME it's pretty adaptable and might be able to adapt to light levels lower than that needed for a lot of other more demanding SPS?

 

[afrankiewicz12]

duncans grow just like candy canes... you said you didnt want candy canes

 

[STiTCH87]

I know you said you don't have the light for SPS, but I can't help but picture a monti digitata in that spot.

It would branch and reach out, but not in such a thick growth form that it would block much, and IME it's pretty adaptable and might be able to adapt to light levels lower than that needed for a lot of other more demanding SPS?

Damn, that WOULD look great right there huh? Lol.

duncans grow just like candy canes... you said you didnt want candy canes

There's a such thing as non-branching duncans...