What's up guys, these are my picks for beginner soft corals. Do you have a different list?

Than I'm not sure what is sharper, your images or your wardrobe choices. Nice video 👍🏾

Tidal gardens is by far the best source of information for those starting out in the hobby . Great content , great video and picture quality and brilliantly put together . Keep them coming Than .

I’ve been searching long and hard through the garbage videos on KZfaq, and finally found your incredible channel. Subscribed and very grateful for your concisely presented and incredibly informative videos. Thank you.

You have the most relaxing manner, and most frank discussion of coral care. Thanks for your videos!

Great list, I've been in the hobby about 13 years and still keep pom pom xenia. It's contained to the overflow and I don't let it get out of control. One thing worth mentioning for beginners is your first tank is rarely your last and people who get really into the hobby tend to upgrade relatively quickly. So if your first tank is filled with fast growing softies not only will it look great faster, it may encourage you to upgrade to a larger tank and you don't necessarily have to move all of those giant softies over.

wow , you are super talented with coral photoghraghy (y)

All of the videos you post are fire. You give the best info i can find on coral tips and care!!

Love your videos, they have helped immensely with my new reef tank. Clear concise information given in a well thought out delivery. Even the simplest household tools that are helpful in feeding and maintaining. Thank you, thank you!!

My tank crashed about a year ago and I'm getting back into it and referencing old videos. Thanks for what you're doing for the hobby and congrats on 100K subs!

I have gone the whole circle from softies to lps and then sps but am back to softies, espesially gorgonians and leathers, just love them

Than your camera work on these videos is top notch! Beautiful presentation.

Always very informative and honest opinion. Love that you don't go with the mainstream opinion on some corals. Can't wait until I can see some of your corals in person.

Nice work! Getting more proffessional with every video. I love these videos

I have all five in a ultralow maintenance 60g Reef tank. Spot on Than. Love these types of videos.

I literally watched this video 4yr ago and again just now. GREAT VIDEO

Thanks Than! Great video as always. I would love to see a video on how you started your hobby and grew it into a business. Happy reefiing!

Great vid, some really nice editing and quality. Also good info. Thanks!

Love these videos. Keep the informational videos coming😁.

Nice video, I think I have or had all five , look forward to more videos👍

Love softies!

Very helpful, and refreshing style.

Great video and the end was funny too

Thank you you’re always so informative

Awesome and very useful video as usual, thanks for all the mistakes you keep me from doing :). In this special video: would you mind telling me whiche species it shows at 4:58 and 9:55, please?

Love your work 👍

Thank you for this video. Very informative.

Great info !!!

Good video! Going to show this to my brother! 🤞🏼 Trying to get him into Reefing

I love softies, got a couple LPS and SPS nothing crazy but tons of softies

Sweet double Windsor! Great video too 👍👍

This video helped me a lot,THANK YOU

Nice job, I like your choices!!

im starting my 1st 90 gallon reef tank friday and of course ive been watching your vids for that past few years and gain lots of knowldge from you and i would love to get your input on my set up

Great video. I wouldn't mind seeing a updated version of this video in the new studio! Nd if your views or opinions changed over the year. Keep up the hard work. 💪

Amazing video clips great video.!

Subscribed. Great videos and information.

Awesome video quality

Good information .Thank you to value people time.

My first was a dwarf pink and white feather duster,doing great.

I have a purple and green leather that i started as a very small frag that has grown to almost 2 feet in about 1.5 years. And that includes cutting large frags for friends. Definitely agree and recommend leathers to beginners. I have always been hit or miss with zoas for whatever reason. But the ones that do live have started to thrive. Blasto's seem to do very well in my low tech setup also. Not sure if that is due to hardiness or simply luck, but would recommend any beginner to give it a try. They are beautiful corals and have introduced me well into some harder to keep "lps". Thanks for the vid than, informative as always.

Great video as always!! That bring said i would love to do a zoa only tank one day :)

For your softies...do you approach lighting, spectrum and salinity differently than your other tanks?

I have all five of these!

Have kept all those and propagated most, but some reason my zoas just don’t do well, you mentioned feeding them, what are you using to feed with? Thanks and look forward to more videos.....

Than, can you do a video sometime on reef lighting? I am currently using AI Prime HD's but not sure if I am using the optimal lighting percentage. I have a range of corals from bounce mushrooms, jawbreaks, to montiporas...

👍👌nice vid

I’m weird I can’t keep easy corals alive but the ones considered very difficult thrive in my tank but I like the look of the easy coral far better

So I'm wanting to do a salt water coral tank a 55 gallon do I have to have a RO system for my water or can i do it like my fresh water and use tap water and just treat it

I have sps corals in my tank that are growing and doing awesome! ( I got em from u thanks!) But I have some zoas or palys not sure, that don’t grow at all. They stretch out sometimes and fold over on themselves other times and suck themselves in others times. Their always doing something weird lol. Is that normal for them?

Hi from France, i like your last tank when you present Xenia, is it possible to have the name of the different livestock you had in it? And is it viable to do the same kind of reef in a 90G reefer ? With fish as well ? Thanks for all

My 1st coral was an Acropora that was brown, but turned green. Tank was a 29 gal with ice cap 3 x 24" vho's put an over flow in corner with a rio800 that fed a cheesy hang on tank skimmer,. I loved that tank to say it thrived wouldn't do it any justice ...... used b-ionic 2 part this was back in 1998 lol in the valley of the sun

Nice video

I have 2 tanks. One of my saltwater tanks is a 13.5 gallon. I an now wanting to add coral to it and I am leaning toward soft corals. Due to the size can you give me some recommendations as what to start with?

Hi my tank can not be drilled, other than a overflow box do I have any other options?

Nice topic I got all those and I am under 2 years as a reefer.

Than puts the sickest music in his videos.

Woah! What’s the discosoma that pops up at around 3:01?

Can you trim corals? The ones that grow too fast?

Woah, what zoanthid was that at 6:18 ?? One of the prettiest I've seen, thanks

I got a tiny rock with Xenia on it. Not the pulsing kind though. I got them like super small as young polyps and now they have grown like 2X as large and more polyps on the rock than I can count!

I have a toadstool which has grown with large proportion in recent months but this week it has bent over and hid away for a few days but today has come out in the day but at night it has gone again into hiding .. any ideas what’s going on apart from the obvious shredding ?

I have a large Hollywood stunner montipora. I seen today has a dark brown spot about the size of a quarter in the middle of it. Looks like the skin is gone in that spot. Would you have any ideas? Any help would be great! I can email pictures of needed.

I’m at a loss. Star polyps, Xenia and leather coral have all died in my tank. I have tried three leathers and Xenia four times. They always melt. My tank is well established 3 years and I just don’t get it. I seem to be the only hobbyist capable of killing these normally easy to keep corals. But my bubble, galaxia, zoas, and ananthalia are doing fine. Any suggestions?

Might be a silly question but I have a bicolor angel. Which of these 5 can we say are safe from being eaten by it?

Most of the corals I see for sale online are shown under blue lights, what types of corals look good under pure white light?

I was gonna get some pulsing xenia before I heard about them budding across the tank

Yeah...I have a tank full of zoas and never a problem!!

Are you going to do this for LPS and SPS? I would like to see that!

Can we see a video of your display tank that you were talking about would make a awesome video

What if i dont like doing water changes and rely more on carbon dosing to keep nitrates down?

Xenia...they took over my entire tank!!

Are finger leathers the same things as Kenya trees?

How about coral replacement for anemone for clown fish?

I honestly had the worst luck with zoanthids and star polyps in my 120 when I had it. The always slowly but surely withered away with time. Yellow polyps did well. So did Duncan and a few plain corals. It was odd.. I didn't understand why something so easy to care for ended up failing many times in my few years of having reef tanks.

If Xenia was put on a rock of its own away from the main reef area would it stay there? Or can it cross the sand bed or bottom and still take over.

what is a MOCHANO ANEMONIES?

I just got a Xenia and it stoped pulsing after a couple of days in my tank. Any idea why? Nice videos by the way 👍

I like grow mdntipora but my tank is 50 % green stars poly can that the reason why I can’t grow montiporal

Do you ship coral??

What’s the coral at 1:36?

👌👏👀💪👏👏👏👏👏👏

i acutally have a 5 gallon majano anemone tank, with a few anemone shrimp in them

Does Xenia have a natural predator that eats them in the wild?

Sinularia and GSP nuked my QT tank. I swore off soft corals after that (except mushrooms).

lol, I consider some of there corrals as weeds. I actively try to get rid of GSP and mushrooms so they dont take over my tank and kill my other peices.

Vídeo do careca e 👍🏻

Hey everyone do corals for beginners, what are some good corals for the guys who just got out the beginner stage?..

My Xenia has done terrible a lot of it has disappeared and it has shrunk .... I’m not sure if it was caused by my bicolour angel pecking at but I don’t think that’s it . Can any1 give me some advice on how to make my Xenia grow back ?

I want to see the bits you edited out :) ha ha lol and then the cat pops up :)

I have pulsing xenia which seem fine. I also have a mushroom that has shrunk to a 10th of its original size. I also have a Kenya tree. I was told the Kenya tree and pulsing xenia tree like good flow. I think the bicolor angel is eating the mushrooms but I might be wrong. Someone in maidenhead aquatics recently advised me to increase circulation.

Xenia: "hand's down" the best coral... lol nice pun.

I dont know, Than. My Aptasia Anemone is doing wonders. The stupid people at the fish store didnt even know they gave it to me for free! Suckers. It has divided so many times that im considering selling frags! XD

Xenia is my favorite coral as well but I belong to the 10% category. I don't run an ULNS.

There is a reason people most often start with the least and count down to the best.

this channel is go too source for informatiion.

It’s crazy you say green star polyps I bought them multiple times and I could NEVER get them to open no matter what I did, my hammer corals does better than those for me lol

where the carbon dosing video at man ?

My Xenia shrink and die as soon as I put them in my tank, tried 2 times.

IS this still valid not or do you have an up to date list?