Nope. Corals got me interested.

haha I'm actually interested in coral before salt water fish. I love corals and wish to keep some, and maybe some fish later.

I've torn the internet apart searching for quality educational reef videos - you absolutely crush it. PLEASE keep making videos like these. You're my hero lol

I've literally managed to kill at least one specimen of every beginner easy species you mention.

You know you've been in this hobby a long time when SPS are showing up as a beginner coral! Great videos! Thanks for sharing.

Feel like this was the first video packed with great info in a while. Please keep up these kind of videos. Beautifully shot and edited.

I actually got interested because of the coral, I think they're really pretty adding a lot to the tank. I like fish, I had since I was little but never really got a tank aside from a bad betta tank before I got into reef tanks. Especially when you see corals actual up close behavior is really cool

This guy new my life from the beginning

0:43 that trigger went full Tokyo drift

The fish are definitely a lot more dramatic in the saltwater world but it was definitely the coral that got me particularly interested. That and clams.

Thanks dr saltwater tv. I am a newbie to corals and this video was just what I needed. Great timing

had to give a like. legit how my conversations went right off bat. Subscribed!

Great info. Love watching all of you videos.👍

Tbh, I was in for the coral. Such interesting creatures!

Getting into the aquaculture setting and this really helped me out. Thank you

I literally have 1 zooanthid frag. Was told a few weeks ago that if it is not doing well, there is a serious issue with my tank. Needless to say, I'm hooked. it is doing well and I am anxious to stock up on some other easy to keep corals. I understand why they are called gateway corals!!!

I love your pyramid butterfly!

Your videos have been amazing lately! A different quality in the all around production.

Anxious to get into corals when I finally get my own place again

Great video and great advice. Good job.

Oh snap this is my local pet shop for my saltwater addiction!!! Located in Orlando Florida off OBT (Orange Blossom Trail). Shawn has a ton of knowledge and extremely helpful both for those just getting started as advance enthusiast. Niceeeee 👌🏻

Keep em coming, Mark.

Me and my partner are the totes opposite. It's the corals and reef building we have fallen in love with and are starting with :D The fish will come later haha

Lol got into the hobby for the corals always fascinated me

Loved this video you should do more like this 👍

itd be pretty cool to see more videos like this maybe with reef safe fish and invertebrates too!

Nice chat!

Can't wait to visit WWC in Orlando soon! 💙🐠

His T-shirt is badasss! I needs one!

00:09 - 00:54, man you are exactly right. that is exactly how i've progressed through the hobby. my best advice for everyone is to do a 20% water change and complete testing every week on the dot. ph at around 8.2, temperature at 78, nitrite, phosphate, and ammonia below 0.25 ppm, nitrate at

I love that shirt!

fantastic video

Best choice coral 😍

Damn good video sir. Thank you.

Waiting and ready to hear you speak at Reef A Palooza!

Speaking of videos for beginners... have you ever thought of doing a cheap setup for beginners? I have a couple of friends wanting to get into saltwater but they don't want to break the bank. So like tank size, lighting, flow, etc.

I'm also that one percent. My best friend and I just wanted the coral and are looking into if we can have a healthy tank with no fish

So helpful.

The beginning is exactly how I ended up with coral 😂. I just wanted a pair of clownfish and it grew from there. Gateway fish I tell you.

Ahhh I've missed this... Good to see you out and about fella 👍🏻

AWESOME content! that 2:56 though.... Keep it up!

cool tank man, yep, i wanted clowns and that's it. i have my fav corals but still not a ton. still love my fish the most. i get corals for flow factor.

Love that shirt!

My hardiest coral so far has been an acan, 12 months back into the hobby and have had instability issues and now Dino’s. Everything has stressed and come back and so forth. Anenomes,frogspawn,zoas (mainly, obviously cause Dino’s clog them), elegance, blasting, hammer, torch. Many corals, only coral that never showed a single sign of stress to anything were my acans and Duncan’s to be exact. Besides the one time an acan was beat up by a nem (which he recovered just fine) and a Duncan frag was buried in the sand for 2 days by a pistol shrimp. They both recovered fine and right now look great even when the others are only starting to look better

Great information but all I kept thinking was, I'm buying that shirt!!

Coral got me interested

I love your karate kid/mk shirt!

im done with GSP. they did take off the sand bed when I isolated it and decided it wanted to grow on crab shells, and another rock.

I love your mk shirt

This makes me want to fire up my RODI system and make some saltwater. Thanks Mark.

LITERALLY could not have found this video at a better time, I am purchasing a Fluval Evo 13 gallon this weekend and am going to take the plunge into making it a softy/LPS aquarium, after appropriate cycling of course. I do have a question though, say someone just wants strictly a reef aquarium with no fish or invertebrates other than soft coral, does one simply place in say, oh a zoanthid after cycling is complete, or are there other processes that have to take place AFTER an aquarium is done cycling BEFORE corals can be placed in? Or is it necessary that there be some sort of live ANIMAL in an aquarium for a softy/LPS aquarium to be sustainable. ~Thanks

Hey awesome video....I need help with my GSP.....have it for a week now...it started to open in the begining....now it not coming out and it starting to look a little on the brown side

I actually want to get into the hobby because of the corals

I came from the fish and planted side of aquariums because i love fish and plants. I really like the look of GSP and I really want them. I have been reading to create island for certain corals. I have the IM 40 that is going to be my first reef. how far does the rock have to be from another rock. Or we talking 1 inch 2 inches 3?

I’ve found it pretty easy to peel GSP off rocks and move it around, I’ve been able to lightly wedge it in rock and with in a few days it’ll be stuck to the rock again, maybe I just have good luck?

great info, any chance we can purchase a starter coral kit from this fellow? link?

I have the fluval Evo 13.5 should I upgrade the lights before getting corals?

I think I fell in love with "saltwater" tanks due to all the colors you cant really find in freshwater.

my GSP was never a problem. Actually it has never grown as much as I wanted. Xenias on the other hand... also look pretty if controlled.

What test kits do you use to test your water?

3 feet hight anf seven feet long and 3 feet wide aqurium glass / arcelic , need how thick(glass or arcelic ) should be it?

I had no luck at all with my war coral, which was annoying as it was my most expensive! Plus some of my zoas are refusing to grow. Though everything else is taking off nicely!

Do this corals need chillers to keep?

i just got a 80 gallon cylinder tank,which coral would be a good start.i broke down a 110 tank with a sand bottom

Man, people are snarky. Yeah, it was fish for me. I'm just in the process of adjusting water chemistry for corals (alkalinity, Ca, Mg) and upgrading lighting to get everything coral ready. I had a tank twenty years ago for about a decade and jumped back in when a buddy gave me a "free" tank about 6 months ago. Man, have things changed. Testing and overall available information is much easier to access nowadays. Looking forward to keeping a reef tank and hoping I don't kill too many beautiful creatures. NO GSP FOR ME!

I know that palys and zoanthids both have toxins but is there any other corals that have toxins that I also should be aware of?

0:15 I was already interested in freshwater fish, I got obsessed with saltwater fish after encountering a 2 1/2 foot long snowflake eel in a saltwater lfs near my drivers ed where I would hang out if my mom/brother was late picking me up. I fucking loved Jerry and I was devastated that it took too long to get the tank ready and I wasn’t able to get him

great video with valuable beginner information Mark. Got to love WWC.

No I was always like I love your corals before fish

Corals got me interested in salt tank.

the first 40 secs you are dead wrong i got in to salt water tanks for the corals

Wish I could go, been to cayman a lot but this is during school :(

coral's are beautiful >_

question i order some corals my tank i would say 3 weeks old, first week i added the bacteria next week i cycle the tank now i got fish in it and they're doing great, will my coral die if i put that in my tank?

aren't montis a more advanced coral? Im just learning and doing my due diligence

Good video, but just one point: I had GSP in my first reef, and they DID in fact start growing over the substrate... I had to start fragging that off and putting in my quarantine tank to keep them from creeping up onto adjacent rocks. Yikes!

Local Floridian & hangout in O-twn often... REDLIGHT HELL for sure lol... But, WILL be dropping in to WWC now that I know where they are ! Woohoo

Good video. But I wonder what food these beginner corals eat? What can we buy to feed them?

Corals have symbiotic algae in their cells. Just like plants. Except plants and their chloroplasts (former "algae") can't seperate anymore.

I know this is an old video but can you tell me what level would be a good placement for Duncan's????

Coral Coral Coral!! 😍😍 Fish are just extras lol 🤣 My location is Australia 💪👌👍🐠

nice

It was the opposite for me. I wanted coral first. One died and the rest got overtaken by algae so now it’s a fish only tank.

so gsp and pulsing xenia are not good options even if isolated ? can they still be problematic

So do corals need saltwater and can you house anemones with them

My gsp were doin great, now theyre closed, water perimeters and alkalinity is fine, what is wrong?

GSP can sting other corals? I heard it doesn't. 🤔

Hey sir what costs Acropora corals on bottom bleach out sir can you help me out sir..Thanks you sir...

Coral's are definitely what have me interested rather than the fish lol Inverts too

And what do you test?

جميل

Corals catch my eye but I’m way to afraid to step into that world. I have terrible lighting because it was a cheap Amazon model and I can’t afford anything larger and I feel that my flow is to low

Neon tropic coral? Is that a candy cane?

Fish got me started...but I am from the saltwater stone age..lol.

I have a freshwater tank for fish

Is it normal for zoanthids to close at night?

T5 compacts are great. Almost the best spread of light and most user friendly. All these controllers on the market with most lights and I bet most people don't have a marine biology degree yet they become experts in what percentage of the spectrum the corals require. Watch the Brs review on T5's then think again.

Super glue?

Was that a Norm McDonald impression?

Nope, my first question was how much coral can this tank fit.