Top 7 Beginner Corals (That Aren't Boring)

Beginner corals don't need to be limited to brown lumps. There are plenty of beautiful, colourful, interesting and easy to keep corals!

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0:00 Introduction
1:20 GSP
2:06 Blastomussa
2:48 Lobophyllia
3:23 Clove Polyps
4:01 Pulsing Xenia
4:46 Zoas
6:14 Rock Flower Anemones

[el_guapo]

No mention of Euphyllias? Hammers, Frogspawn and Torches are beautiful, get big, and have movement. Also can host Clownfish. And murder the crap out of other corals. Oh wait...

[asylumassistsa]

Love my rock flower anemones. Thought they were zoas initially because of the small round size. But learned otherwise when one split itself and travelled to other end of the tank!

[oliviadutton]

I have a pulsing xenia and a kenya tree, and I really like them

[mrsgraceestores]

I’m scared shitless when I see a coral in real life

[freemansaquatics]

You seariously have me considering rock flowers now

[KingAdeft]

Nice video! I agree flower anenomes are amazing. My nano tank is a flower anemone tank. It's not a coral though. I still think it's a great option. Again good video.

[TriniFishHobbyist]

Very informative. Thanks for sharing. I hope to convert my salt to a reef tank soon... so I appreciate your advice.

[MatrixFuse]

Finally a British reefer! Where do you go to buy your fish/equipment? We don't really have marine aquarium stores here in the UK do we? In fact, fresh water chains include pets at home and.... pets at home. I think the biggest thing from holding me back from the marine hobby which I've wanted to do since I got my tropical freshwater is the lack of available places to go. There are a few independents round me in Derby like maidenhead aquatics that do a very small section of saltwater fish and equipment but when you compare to the likes of America where's there's a big Al's on each corner of town it seems like, the UK just seems to be dead in comparison. So yeah, where do you go? Can you reccomened anywhere? Literally nothing comes up when I Google marine aquatic stores are actually marine stores. They're just freshwater!

[Zeptyche]

Thanks for the info man. I’m in the process of beginning my first reef tank and I’m teetering between SPS/LPS and soft corals.

[andym]

I've got fish only do I need protein skimmer for that pulsing xena

[kevinkane]

I have not had a good experience with hammers and torch corals. But I’m going to get gsp and put it in my sand bed and then have zoas on my rock. I have a 10 gallon tank.

[eastModej]

Just looking at your wallpaper making me think twice . 😅

[samdunstan]

Love your work and channel in general. Wish there were more British content creators in the marine fishkeeping hobby. Good coral seems to be so much harder to acquire in the UK. Besides fraggingmad, where do you typically source your coral? Locally? Online? Do you have any recommendations? I'd love to see some videos of you reviewing UK based coral (and fish) suppliers!

[BoY]

Search mike soft coral reef....it will make anyone rethink soft corals

[paranorman]

i love my green finger leather coral good for beginners plus have color

[vialli]

Great channel and this video is really helpful as I'm just starting my second reef tank and it's given me some ideas for nice looking corals

[JakeDogg-RIP]

My first corals in my tank will probably be blastos and Duncan’s I think 🤔 I still waiting for my FragBox tv reef Casa tank to come all way to australia, but when it here I can start reefing 🥰🐶 after those I plan to add acans, and maybe a hammer or torch, and then maybe some zoas to get some colours I will be missing 🤷‍♂️ as for fish I would like to have pipe fish or dragonets, and plan to seed the tank with lots of copepods from the cycling phase 🥰🐶

[dannycockburn]

Hi im a beginnerish, can i use local rocks from the seaside near by? also sand. it would be nice to incorporate local stone. possibly mixed with the store bought stuff?

[aidenmcdaniel]

Just for perspective on how hardy pulsing xenia's are. In one of the tanks I had, we got some xenia's from a guy. We had a fish the we found out too late are coral and most of the xenia's we're eaten except for one small pit of them which got into the sump and for about six months, long after we got the of the coral eating fish, I find that xenia in the sump not having grown much in there since there was no light or anything down there. I put them in an auxiliary tank that has a mantis shrimp in there and they took off. They dominated the whole tank in a matter of months.

[squidyspecifications]

The boring corals don't look that bad tbh.