Nice colourful corals for my nano?

[jacksprat]

Any suggestions of corals that i can get small frags of or small specimens that are coulourful and will live in my Nanocube 24 with 72w of light and 2000lph of flow.

Would like it to be a soft coral preferably and something that isnt extremely hard to keep.

[DC110770]

Try mushrooms - very easy and nice to look at!

Also Xenia are quite nice and also verty hardy.

Leathers are always a winner as are bubble!

[jacksprat]

as of my sig i have mushrooms, not very colourful really. Got a leather, got zoanthids and got rhodactis. I want bright bright colour like a chilli coral.. any pros know if i can keep em?

I want to try and have a tank with some rarer things in too and my LFS will order i just need to know what i want. Dont want xenia because it is like a weed and also i have a nano and thihnk it would be out of proportion.

[bleedmarshall]

i have mushrooms, not very colourful really.

No colour? check some of the softies this month from STM

http://www.s-t-m.co.uk/NovGallery/images/PB175435.jpg
http://www.s-t-m.co.uk/NovGallery/images/PB175454.jpg
http://www.s-t-m.co.uk/NovGallery/images/PB175472.jpg
http://www.s-t-m.co.uk/NovGallery/images/PB175522.jpg

yummy:p

[Marc Foord]

hi jack

you need to keep an eye our for the really nice ricordeas and other mushies which can be really nice colours - e.g. reds, oranges, purples etc etc.

also, i suspect you might need to be on the look out for some of the more elite zoos - get some great colour morphs in those, but hard to find and prices can get a bit out of hand :rolleyes: :D

i'd avoid a chilli coral - i was previously told they are very tricky to keep alive due to their feeding requirements

oh, some of the brain corals can be stunning colours too

just a matter of keeping an eye out in the shops you visit to see if anything catches your eye, but then checking the requirements of that coral in relation to your lighting and flow - if you don't already own the bornemann aquarium corals, buy it in hard back - it's absolutely superb and i regularly look stuff up in my copy.

hth somehow...

marc

[jacksprat]

Yup thanks all...

By Mushies have no colour i already have blue one which is very nice and flourescent (sp.) BUT they arent crazy colours is what i was looking for. Zoas are probably going to be the way forward they are just hard to get hold of in the special colour morphs also PRICEY :eek: But worth it.

If anyone sees any let me know and i will invest. well when i get paid i will lol :rolleyes:

Thanks alot people!

[ThomJ]

If you can get hold of them then blasto's can come in some stunning colours, not too demanding when it comes to light or flow. Just be warned they will pobably be expensive... but truely worth it imo.

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[Marc Foord]

hi jack

By Mushies have no colour

what about the bright red/orange ones in trops recently - pretty colourful!

i've also got a very bright pinky coloured ricordea yuma, a couple of the fairly standard but colourful orange ricordea floridas, a purpley yuma etc, so they are around (and i don't visit very many different shops!)

IMO a load of varied coloured zoos in a nano would look stunning

[rockpoolie]

I think mines pretty colourful :D

http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/photopost/data/569/medium/DSCN0252.JPGhttp://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/photopost/data/569/medium/DSCN0252.JPG

[Marc Foord]

very nice nano rockpoolie !

[ThomJ]

Lovely nano rockpoolie! is that a red trachyphyllia in the top middle?

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[rockpoolie]

Lovely nano rockpoolie! is that a red trachyphyllia in the top middle?

Tom http://www.ultimatereef.net/forums/images/icons/icon14.gif

Cheers, I think so, sold as a donought, deffo open brain but its just flat ans round not folded - pic doesn't do justice to colour

[gaviscon]

what about some nice red macroalgae's?

[bleedmarshall]

red macroalgae's?

Lol bloomin ekk i cant get rid of the stuff! :p

I never even added it knownly it came in with live rock and just started growing so i though ohh kool! ..............

wrong not cool. It was growning like wild fire for a while.

I used to have to keep it in check, now my emerald crab loves munching on it.


Scott