Starting a salt aquarium- fowlr for now

[deftones2015]

Is that coral a softie or have a hard skeleton? Looks like LPS to me.

The pic you're talking about looks like a favia skeleton to me

[AkHerps]

Holy cow I could never have a saltwater fish tank, just reading this thread I am baffled, but they sure are gorgeous! Good luck to you!

[Hypancistrus]

Depends on what it is and how large it is. If it survived in the fish store tank, chances are it will live in yours as well. Have you seen any bristle worms?.

Haven't seen any as of yet, but I don't recall seeing them right away in my other attempts, either, and yet they were there when I broke the tanks down. So I'm assuming they are there.

You can see the clam thing in the picture with the red macroalgae on it. It's tall and upright in orientation.

So far as the other corals-- I haven't the foggiest idea what they are. We are going to start with some zooanthids and xenia. I eventually would like to get some LPS... frogspawn and hammer coral in particular!

[deftones2015]

Frogspawn and hammer are some of my favorite coral. Be careful with xenia because it can take over your tank pretty quick. You can start with lps if you want. Just make sure water quality is in check before adding anything. Nice thing about coral is they don't add to your bio load unless you feed them.

[Hypancistrus]

Frogspawn and hammer are some of my favorite coral. Be careful with xenia because it can take over your tank pretty quick. You can start with lps if you want. Just make sure water quality is in check before adding anything. Nice thing about coral is they don't add to your bio load unless you feed them.

Yeah, I had xenia in one of my previous attempts-- a 5.5 gallon nano tank. I'm familiar with it's "weed like" properties.

[deftones2015]

lol yeah, I have a friend who tried it out in his 55 and it pretty much dominated his tank.

[Hypancistrus]

lol yeah, I have a friend who tried it out in his 55 and it pretty much dominated his tank.

Mine spread pretty quick in the 55, but it was one of my favorites. I actually found an old photo of the 5.5 gallon mini-reef I had before it went kaput. I will have to upload it and post it. It was a pretty little tank.