The one coral that just will not live in your tank?

[IridescentLily]

I read now and again that every reef keeper seems to have one coral which simply will not live in their tank, no matter what; could be zoas, ricordea, a certain kind of sps, etc.

Is there a coral like that for you? If so, what is it?
:)

[GoingPostal]

Xenia. Grows like weeds in everybody's else's tanks, does great for about a month and then withers away. I've tried three different times, two different kinds, aquacultured both times. I seem to have terrible luck with lobos as well, two did great, two died. No problem with any other brains.

[landy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14281969#post14281969 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GoingPostal
Xenia. Grows like weeds in everybody's else's tanks, does great for about a month and then withers away. I've tried three different times, two different kinds, aquacultured both times. I seem to have terrible luck with lobos as well, two did great, two died. No problem with any other brains.

xenia loves dirty water. you want it to live, ease up on the waterchanges, and skimmer.

Or, just be a happy its that way. ;)

landy

[spamreefnew]

flowerpots for me:)

[BradsOcean]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14282923#post14282923 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by spamreefnew
flowerpots for me:)
i think this goes for everyone. Most people can't keep flowerpots long-term

[Fish_wiz2]

clams, i have one left of 6. really hoping it stays with me

[Rysam]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14281969#post14281969 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by GoingPostal
Xenia. Grows like weeds in everybody's else's tanks, does great for about a month and then withers away.

yup, me too! i quit trying after a half dozen attempts.

[BradsOcean]

too bad, it grows like weeds for me...i just take it out every couple months for LFS credit

[jbird69]

I cant keep xenias either. They wither almost immediately

[IridescentLily]

Xenia, Flowerpots and Clams. Interesting.
Any others? :)

[dalston]

PALYS!!! In my 12 gal, palys just do not do well, I've lost a 15 polyp frag of Nuc greens and just put a frag of normal browns in which are withering away...zoa's do fine and thrive but palys hate me

[MMOORE0324]

Monti caps... all other SPS do great but not the "beginner SPS"monti caps. :)

[MMOORE0324]

Good thread btw.

[Gdevine]

Yes on the gonioporia...very difficult animal. I purchased an alviopora some weeks ago knowing they are a hardier version of the goniopora so only time will tell...

[TheORKINMan]

Carnation corals! ;)

[ilikelps]

Toadstools! One of the easiest corals to keep and it just slowly dies off in my tank....

Ben

[jpa0741]

Acan for me. I have a full blown SPS reef and most of the acans I try melt away.

[HumbleLobster]

Oregon blue tort. I can keep cali tort, all other types of acros, and other SPS. But for some reason I can't keep Oregon blue torts alive. I've tried three different ones, two were from other reefers, and a third from ORA. No dice. Not trying again for at least a year.

[cbusreefer]

sunset monti. have a ton of other montis and sps, but have had three die off so far.

[ssamick]

In the early days it was zoas. They would just shrink up over time and totally look like crap. Now I have a thriving sps tank. Really strange huh? Some people just know how to keep em. I wish I knew because I really like em.

[Hampton]

Mine is a green flower pot I bought last year for my wife for Valentine's Day. It's still bright green, but it doesn't come out very much. I've just begun to target feed it more regularly. I've really been pushing the clean water lately. I think that made it mad. It has been receding from it's full size.

[GQuinn]

I have trouble with Pipe Organ Coral. It does great for a couple of months, then slowly loses its color and never comes back.

Gary

[dagda]

I can't get green star polyps to grow. Everything else SPS, LPS, zoas, RBTA, and leathers grow fine.

[SaltyDr]

Ditto on the GSP. I have 2 different frags, and although they have spread a little, the polyps are pretty small and it seems to just be there. In a way I wish it would start to grow like crazy. I love tanks with a bunch of it swaying in the breeze like a lush carpet. Oh well, I read all the time "how do I control GSP..."

[jlawson382]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14288171#post14288171 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by MMOORE0324
Monti caps... all other SPS do great but not the "beginner SPS"monti caps. :)


Same here. :confused:

[2farNorth]

Xenia, I had it melt in 3 different tanks of mine....

And Zoas, for some reason I have horrible luck with them in my SPS tank.....

[Aerowen]

scolys- got two aussie ones and both started losing tissue. no idea why

[Jova]

For me, it's those button polyps. Although I must admit, I haven't tried them since I upgraded my lighting, but for years and years, when everything else was thriving, my button polyps would never open. No idea why... and a lot of people consider these a pest! :) Also, I tried a bird's nest a while back, bought a nice one that was about 7" in diameter, nice pink color, and it was dead in 24 hours, but that may have been a pre-existing condition. But yeah, for me, it's the button polyps that just don't work in my tanks.

[Electrobes]

Xenia. And the weird part? I have a softy dominate tank! No skimmer but still a healthy tank that grows any softie I throw at it minus Xenia.

I used to think it was something in the water the RO/DI wasn't picking up. I moved from Florida to South Carolina (Took a year's hiatus) and now with my new softy dominated tank everything grows well minus xenia... again.

Must be user error :lol:

[Jova]

To me, xenia is just one of those things that doesn't seem to make much sense. My girlfriend's mom had a few tanks that had xenia growing like a weed in them. All of her corals were bleached out, and in my opinion, looked like crap. But she always said that her xenia grew like a weed. She recently got out of the hobby and gave us all of her corals. Everything else looks MUCH better than what it did in her tank, but the xenia is just "surviving", not growing like a weed at all... So to me, it doesn't make any sense at all. My parameters are in check, and all corals I got from her are doing much better in my tank, but the xenia is doing worse. So I feel all ya'lls pain here:)

[widmer]

It's mushrooms for me. My SPS and zoas have always done really well, but I couldn't make a mushroom happy to save my life...

[kwaters]

I too could not keep xenia in my tank. I had a bunch of kenya or taro tree in my old tank, but the xenia just withered away. Now that I have upgraded, my leather (that was the center piece of the 55) is struggling.

[RichardScottRice]

Chalice corals. I went through 5 of them before I found ONE that didn't loose all its tissue within a couple weeks. Its been 6 months now and its actually growing some so I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but if any thing happens to this one I won't be trying again.

Oh yeah and Acropora Echinata. I tried twice to keep one of these and failed. Its my favorite SPS coral too :( I still think it has something to do with getting just the right lighting and water flow, but I'm not going to try again until I get a bigger tank.

[IridescentLily]

Wow, Xenia is either taking over, or not growing at all.

[E.intheC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14290876#post14290876 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Jova
To me, xenia is just one of those things that doesn't seem to make much sense. My girlfriend's mom had a few tanks that had xenia growing like a weed in them. All of her corals were bleached out, and in my opinion, looked like crap. But she always said that her xenia grew like a weed. She recently got out of the hobby and gave us all of her corals. Everything else looks MUCH better than what it did in her tank, but the xenia is just "surviving", not growing like a weed at all... So to me, it doesn't make any sense at all. My parameters are in check, and all corals I got from her are doing much better in my tank, but the xenia is doing worse. So I feel all ya'lls pain here:)

pulsing xenia (my fiance's favorite coral btw) is a great looking coral. It likes nutrient rich water and lower flow.. those things are the exact opposite requirements for sps.. I'm not surprised at all by your post

[basssnake]

I hear you. Some tanks seem to do fine with some things and other corals seem to grow and do fine. I wonder why that is? I have a gonipora(flower pot) that i have had in a tank for over two years(maybe three, i can't remember i have had it so long) and it is still doing great. It opens its polyp extensions at least 6 to 8 inches.

[MMOORE0324]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14290881#post14290881 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by widmer
It's mushrooms for me. My SPS and zoas have always done really well, but I couldn't make a mushroom happy to save my life...

Probably the higher flow of an SPS tank... shrooms like the lower flow.

[IridescentLily]

Anyone have trouble keeping any LPS?

:)

[RichardScottRice]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14292304#post14292304 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RichardScottRice
Chalice corals. I went through 5 of them before I found ONE that didn't loose all its tissue within a couple weeks. Its been 6 months now and its actually growing some so I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but if any thing happens to this one I won't be trying again.

[E.intheC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14316543#post14316543 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by IridescentLily
Anyone have trouble keeping any LPS?

:)


I didn't until my peppermint shrimp found them... poor, poor frogspawn. Decimated. Shrimp will have to go back to the LFS before I buy any new LPS

[IridescentLily]

Oh no, not the frogspawn! He went to town on it it sounds like.

[E.intheC]

absolutely. complete destruction. it was quick too...

[IridescentLily]

Well that crazy little shrimpmonster. I'm sorry E.intheC that sucks.

[Marklu]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14290250#post14290250 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jlawson382
Same here. :confused:

same for me :rolleyes: I don't know why, all other sps flourish, but the caps just stall out and don't budge. They don't die, but they don't grow.