Do you remember your first?

[fishgeeksrus]

I was thinking about it the other day while looking at someone's pictures.....


Do you remember your first CORAL? Some of the tanks on here are so amazing and I can't even guess how long some of the corals have been kept.

To answer my own question...

Our first coral was actually 2 different ones. We started with a Colt and a toadstool Leather. The Colt melted on us when we changed a couple of overflow sponges. Must have had something on them that was bad for the water (even after rinsing them well) The leather is still a centerpiece in our 55 gal for over 2 years.

[LowCel]

My first coral was florida ricordia. After that my first was xenia elongata and pom pom xenia. That was a little over a year ago.

[Poseidon]

My first was a Hammer Coral, it had 2 heads. I still have it today, I have broken it in half and gotten rid of 1/2 of the original coral. At last count the half that I still have had 19 heads!

[Arctic Fox]

This is my first coral, I just got it a few weeks ago and it seems to be doing great, comming out more & more every day. I was told it's a fox coral, I don't know the scientific name, it's kind of hard to make out in the picture, but the fleshy parts are a purplish colour, and it has a neon green pigmintation, really cool looking. Sorry about the sucky picture quality, but I'm still using a webcam to take the pictures.

http://www.reefland.com/gallery/show...cat=500&page=1

http://www.reefland.com/gallery/show...cat=500&page=1



p.s. How do you get the images to actually display in the post?

[reggie060]

got this as a frag at my 1st club meeting last year.Oh the one in the middle.

[golfish]

Mine was a Hammer coral...when I sold it 4 years ago it was the size of a basket ball

[Reefland]

I think mine were some zoathids some 6 years ago when I started.

[saltjunkie]

are those the ones you gave to Dennis.. that I ended up with that I still have?
and have multiplied abot 4 million times?

my first was prolly some mushrooms..

[Reefland]

I don't know if they are still around or now, they were brown with green centers.

[zhenya]

My first coral was a Colt coral, grew well for about 4 years.Too well to my liking and I took it back.

[Samper]

First coral was a frogspawn that I unfortunately didn't know how to take care of at the time. Here is my second.

[saltjunkie]

I think mine were some zoathids some 6 years ago when I started.

yep.. i still have all of them.. plus all the offspring.... i think im 30 generations in!

[kevinpo]

My first coral was a rock with 2 frilly brown mushrooms and a plant on it back in 1986. The LFS just called it live rock. None of the LFS or hobbyists I hung around knew the names back then . There weren't any hobbyists books available that described corals.

The attached picture is of my first Acropora (yongei) that I purchased 3/22/98. The picture was taken late 1998.

Regards,
Kevin