Clams are such a great thing to have in the tank. Its cool seeing other people starting to bring it up.

Another alternative to the Christmas tree worm is the feather duster worm, they’ve been thriving in my tank for a long time now!

So accurate on Goni I had one that was thriving and growing for 6 months, 1 day they weren’t as extended and 2 weeks later dead. Nothing changed with the tank at all and levels were always perfect. Baffles me to this day

A guy at the pet store told me this coral right here is super aggressive I was like.... How? He said it's like a deathrap that lures in its prey.... I was like sounds like my ex girlfriend

“Ball ache” that’s a new one lmao Pain in the derrière haha The accent. It’s amazing

Clams are so under rated, they truly aren’t that hard to keep if your lightings strong enough and most people on the hobby with new enough LEDs can keep pretty much anything Also euphylia are such awesome intermediate corals

Duncans also offer the grotesque experience of anemone feeding. I feed mine a small piece of shrimp and it looks so damn alien how it engulfs the small piece and then goes back to its size

Kenya tree is a double edge sword. They multiply fast and drop frags where they feel like it

I literally just want a tank full of pulsing xenia, 2 clownfish, and a cleaner shrimp haha, but i do want to definitely make sure and the way you talk about some of these corals might make me add something else haha

Just a note with torch corals, they can touch other torch corals

I didn’t realize I wasn’t subscribed. I love your videos!! Keep it up :)

Great videos love the way you keep it simple and clear keep up the great work you give such great advice 👍

Great vid as per short sharp and informative you are fast becoming my favourite you tuber keep up the good work sir 👍🏻

Love your info but damn your wallpaper drives me crazy!!

I'm enjoying your videos. Keep up the good work!!!!

Love the clam this is on my list of do's great tips of what not to get thanks :) :)

Glad the elephant ear is on that list! Awful coral. Honestly I don't know why fish shops sell them especially because in my experience a few fish shops including MHAquatics consider them "just a mushroom" not knowing themselves that they are a clown eating mushroom and sell them to people with clowns!! Shocking. Nice one for making people aware of this one. 👍🏼😊

Great vid! Another good alternative to an elephant ear would be a fox Cora! They’re one of my favs!

A coral I regret, not because of difficulty, is pulsing Xenia. Been trying to eradicate it for four years now!

I loved my deresa clam. I haven't had issues with corals but I did have an issue with a peppermint shrimp it started attacking my BTA so it had to go.

Sun corals are easy if you put them in the right spot. Florida ricordea is not a mushroom, its a form of anemone. Goni's are generally thought of as easier than alvis. Torches can go next to other torches and euphilias as long as skeleton doesn't touch. Hammer corals in general are alot cheaper than torches

Good list of alternatives. And I'm also a fan of green star polyps ^_~.

My torch, suncoral, hammer and spawn all doing very well and they open up beautifully very day . In the evening when all light off. My sun corals will open up beautifully.

I wish people would watch the tips and points Alex has, I don't see you all slanging BRS TV off all the time ! Try making your own KZfaq videos and see how many people watch you ! Good points Alex once again. Thanks. A few more I would of added. 👍👍

pulsing xenia, orange cap monti and blue wavy hand coral should be on the list too.

In my first tank, I got a Goni as one of my first corals. It's been a year and a half and it's the only coral I've never had an issue with! It's so funny how different corals can react to different systems - I can't for the life of me keep a cyphastrea, and everyone else seems to have no issues with them!

Hi Alex! great video as usual! Would u say u have to have a lot of money coming in to keep corals please?? 😀👍

I love how u give alts

I started dosing all for reef a few weeks ago and wanted to also dose kalkwasser but was told I'd be overdosing alkalinity which would have a detrimental effect?

My Gonipora were looking bad till I let the nutrients go a bit higher. If you keep a near 0 nitrate level in your tank you will need to do a lot of spot feeding. Also, avoid small frags of Goni… they are way more sensitive to algae build up, while larger frags will survive and eventually thrive as long as you keep them toward the bottom of the tank.

Merci pour ta vidéo !!! 👍👍👍

I’ve some bad experiences with wall hammers

Really I don’t have a greatly established tank and gonis are the one thing that LOVEEEEE my tank after two years they have kinda taken over

Beside of Bisma/Christmas worm feather and cluster dusters are much more easy to keep the Christmas worms

I have had my GSP for over a year now. You want to know how much it has grown? Brace yourself for this: ……. … It has grown from 4 polyp to 6 polyps. So yeah. Kinda glad GSP didn't make this list as I did not have the problem that I usually hear about concerning their apocalyptic levels of growth. Also, I love duncans. Mine went from 2 heads to about 15 over the past year. Nice and fat, and will readily eat fish pellets, lps pellets, mysis, and basically anything else. As for ricordeas…. Despite all my discosomas and rhodactis shrooms thriving and getting fairly sizeable and reproducing, ricordeas never do well. More specifically they seem to be suicidal as they unglue themselves, wind up in a spot with zero light and die, or get sucked into the overflow and die, or land on one of my aussie lords and get devoured...and die. On the plus side, at lest my Aussie Lords have established dominance over the rest of the tank lol

What type of algae is on 3:22? I have a similar type in my tank and can't seem to ID it online!

I love the colours and texture of the florida ricordea corals - they just command a rather higher price than your usual Corallimorpharia :)

mushrooms are a big no no, had in my first tank, over ran the tank completely, they survive through anything...

The one thing that I can’t seem to keep for any amount of time is Zoas 😩 yet corals like hammers and mushrooms, Acans and Duncan’s grow really well, what do you think about bubble scrubbing ? Some say it’s good for removing unwanted slime from some corals ?

Warning: DONT get a clam if you have a butterflyfish (mainly a copperband) cause like he said it’ll eat it but it may not peck at it IF it’s gotten off the diet of a clam

Love your videos

I love gono's and have owned around 4 and only one has made it up to a year so far! I dont know why this one has made it probably because it was the least colorful..lol and the one I like the least! . It never fully extends though! Funny thing is today I unpluged the wavemaker for a while and forgot to plug back in and it extended more than I have ever seen! Guess I have been giving him to much flow! I wont stop though! I am bidding on one tonight from unique corals! I have seen some people with them so extended and beautiful that they look like torches! Hopefully the one I am bidding on will be the ticket! LOL> Its free shipping and bid is only at .99 cent right now so maybe I wll get lucky. Free shipping is because I placed an order already off their website that qualified me for free shipping and allows me to get in their ebay auctions! I also have credit from them as well because I won first prize on a live sale! It was originally 800.00. I love unique corals!

My Elegance coral absolutely love them and it in a corner on the sand not a problem all out tentacles the lot then for no reason after about 6-months it's half the size have moved it all around the tank to no avail I know it's just going to die on me and it was over £100 any ideas would be appreciated

Nice vid Alex, I’m going to give a sun coral a go 😫 how’s the copper band any regrets eating your scans 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿👍

my top 5 corals I regret buying would be 1 Acropora I don't know but I just can't keep them alive however millepora does great in my tank. 2 would be torch corals and hammers I don't know why but I always end up after 2 weeks with brown jelly disease I recently tried to make a bubble coral garden and that worked out for me. 3 would be Zoas they always do good for to first 2 weeks and then they close and never open again and just end up passing away however palythoa do fine for me same shape and sadly they have fewer color variants. 4 would be clove polyps they just end up melting away in my tank in a couple of days Xenia just works fine for me and it just adds the same movement to the tank and 5 would be anemones they always move to a dark spot in my tank shrink up and die a great alternative for them would be hellofungia they still at the same look as a nem and people still mistake them for a nem and they don't move at all downside is I would not recommend placing them on a rock because they need low par levels and low to medium flow.

can you get stuff from liveaquaria in the uk?

What do you test your salt water for

Derasa and Squamosa clam are the hardiest

Boa tarde no inicio do video aparece um coral tipo anêmona qual seria o nome deste coral da capa

pocillopora should be #1, always. They grow fast, spread/spawn, and are impossible to get rid of.

What about dendro corals for a sun coral alternative?

I want a dendro. They can be easier than tubastrea

I have the worst luck with clams. My SPS do great, but my clams always wither within a few weeks. I just can't seem to find a spot with high enough light, and low enough flow for them to be comfortable.

Most people may think what I’m about to say is blasphemy but I don’t really recommend the zoanthids to beginners. They can take up a lot of room and grow pretty quick sometimes and if you don’t properly remove or frag them, their toxins can poison and kill some other corals. I wouldn’t try to keep them until they’ve got some more experience under their belt with maintaining good water conditions and fragging other corals but once they get the hang of it, zoas shouldn’t be a problem to deal with.

For me, my fat head dendro is the most unique coral and my fav, and def worth a couple time a week spot feeding. it eats mysis quickly so you dont have to be there for hours feeding it or need a drinks bottle.

Not a coral... but rainbow anemones... they won't stop splitting!

I have 3 gonipora in my tank, bought another one and its now starting to die...

I remember when plum rocks were the most popular thing

after 3 years and having success would you still suggest beginners to avoid gonis ?

Clams are illegal to keep in home reef tanks in China.

Spit fire mushrooms thrive in my tank but for some reason i cant seem to keep any zoas in for no more then a week

sun corals look better than duncans, find a orange duncan then maybe, and "florida ricordea" is kinda wrong or not totally correct, Ricordea florida are the genus species name, and till here i have never heard anyone reverse such,

shame imagine eating nemo 😂🦖

elephant ear Nemo predator ? Excellent for me Nemo bites me all the time And they push coral that I put in the bottom of the riff And attack every new coral I put into the riff They are cute but I hate them

I regret the day I bought my first aquarium 😂😂😂

What????? WALL HAMMERS ARE ON THE LIST???? MY GOD THEY LOOK TOO GOOD. branching is awesome as well but much uglier imo. I don’t own a wall hammer colony yet only branching

Joshua Tree I will never do that again

Not cool, bro!🤣💜

While I do agree, I just can't resist walling Euphyllia. I just find them so much more beautiful than the branching varieties, especially when it comes to hammers. There a more colour varieties, and I love the big round anchor / horseshoe shaped tentacles compared to the smaller and less defined tips that branching ones tend to have. A large, colourful walling colony just looks absolutely incredible in my opinion. My Neon Green Indo wall hammer is my pride and joy. I've never found that wall hammers are any more sensitive or prone to ailments than branching hammers, the problem is that as you say, once they start to recede for whatever reason, they're incredibly hard to save, and since Euphyllia are one of the corals most prone to bacterial infections and things like brown jelly disease, I definitely understand why most people don't find them worth the risk, especially given the hefty price tag.