My favourite is the one that doesnt spaz out and die on me just because it feels like it. Another great video RD, thank you.
@tythomas6051 Жыл бұрын
Call me crazy, but leather corals will always have a place to me. Mostly the toadstool coral. I just think they are gorgeous especially when they get big. But my all time favorite coral is Hammer corals.
@mbtravel7294 Жыл бұрын
Me too!!
@blunderbuss1395 Жыл бұрын
plain toadstools and canary toadstools are crazy beautiful
@deanfielding4411 Жыл бұрын
I love a good Toxic Green Candy Cane and also a nice Blasto colony. Good old favourites of mine.
@opethmike Жыл бұрын
My all time favorite coral is the SC orange passion. I had a really nice mini colony for a while.
@dereks3207 Жыл бұрын
I love the classic corals. After all, they’re classics for a reason!
@ItsJustMeBrett Жыл бұрын
My favorite is a frag I have with some no name pink and purple zoa and firecrackers gloves popping up through the zoas. I do have a PC rainbow Acro coming in though so I’ll see how that looks.
@davidleach4689 Жыл бұрын
Oregon blue tort is my top
@meakin2424 Жыл бұрын
Glitter bomb Goni is my #1, Raja Rampage Chalice #2, Pink Frammer #3, New York Knicks Torch #4 & finally #5 orange Monti Setosa!!!
@fuzz1185 Жыл бұрын
My top 8: 1: Toadstools - awesome in general, but can be toxic 2: Palythoa - very cool shape and spread like mad, but less colour than Zoas 3: GSP (or any of the star polyps) - awesome movement, grows like a carpet shape and covers rocks and doesnt sting 4: Kenya Trees - budget acropora, moves like one of those inflatable things that are sometimes outside of hardware shops 5: Mushrooms (any kind) - indestructible, can be placed almost anywhere, so many colours, and grow quite fast 6: Bubble Tip Anemones (not a coral I know) - very cool movement, can host clownfish and has a red and purple version which looks amazing 7: Finger Leather - grows fast, is invincible and can survive anything, and has a nice green colour on some of them 8: Tube worms/Feather Duster (not a coral, but still cool) I once had this red and yellow one and it looked sick. Enough said.
@dandanthefishmanclothier3690 Жыл бұрын
My top 3 were toadstool leather coral, Bali Slimer, and I had an amazing neon green montipora. They're all basic corals and I've dabbled with fancy ones but I found those 3 always drew the most attention.
@tinchytarantula Жыл бұрын
My favourite corals are the very underated Duncan coral
@aquaboi8662 Жыл бұрын
I love really fleshy lps corals like trachies, lobaphyillia, scolys and acans
@daredonkey Жыл бұрын
Blastomussa holds a special place in my heart. I am also in love with Moseleya Latistella
@DannysCoralReef Жыл бұрын
My favorite out of this list is the strawberry shortcake acropora it is looking so cool!!!
@harlanmichael7088 Жыл бұрын
Great content as always! I’m personally a big fan of Torch corals.
@nikhilroy5197 Жыл бұрын
I have kept both paletta pink tip and rainbow loom, I believe they are the same coral, the only difference that could have been was growth structure but that could be attributed to different light/ flow
@theoalex474 Жыл бұрын
2:20 LOL!
@bencobb3433 Жыл бұрын
Awesome video Alex, I've just had to shut my 4000l system down due too spiralling energy costs 😢😢 but all ready planning my next system (smaller but still larger than average)
@deanfielding4411 Жыл бұрын
Have a serious look at a Ripple Energy. I’ve just invested a few £1000s and it will stabilise my energy costs for next 20 years. I’m going to get about 40% ROI in just next 12 months because of high wholesale prices. I wish I’d put more money in. It certainly helps keep energy costs down for my reefing hobby!
@AbbasReef Жыл бұрын
Great Choice, strawberry shortcake is due a hair cut ;)
@ilikeweirdfish7106 Жыл бұрын
Since SPS hate me and my tank I'll go with my pipe organ. It's got movement, a good glow but is probably the only coral that is prettier when retracted with its extremely convoluted bright pink skeleton. Also it grows really well for me which is weird apparently.
@davidhughes7180 Жыл бұрын
2nd goniopora is often called a "pastel rose"
@jamesz7415 Жыл бұрын
1) Zoanthids, specifically purple hornets, Sunny Ds, Bam Bams, etc. 2) Blue Snowflake anthelia (I know I'm weird, I love the blue) 3) Acan Lords (mixed variety) 4) Australian Neon Wall Hammers 5) Green Bubble Coral 6)Super Neon GSP 7) Pom pom Xenia 8) Ricordea Mushrooms
@rolisreefranch Жыл бұрын
Solid list. I have a few of these.
@opethmike Жыл бұрын
I wish that Reef Dork was my cousin.
@davidhughes7180 Жыл бұрын
Why stop at cousin? Dad?
@bluerider0988 Жыл бұрын
Rainbow Wall Hammers.
@sunnygoold9449 Жыл бұрын
I'm not sure the Pikachu is a Pikachu - Have a look at the tiger blood underneath the Pikachu on EC Corals website at the moment. I think a real Pikachu should be A cyreathea (SIC) but yours looks closer to a suhasanoi - stunning coral and even the EC one doesn't look right to me ;) That blue polyped monti is crazy! I have a Crazy T and a (supposedly) Kung Pow and mine are saucer size after a couple of years. I have a 6 month JF Alter Ego that is also plating out - love these deepwater montis and they do better than my Digis - weird indeed. The SSC is insane! I hope mine ends up like yours - though my Blue Flame Tenuis has to be the acro I think will top my list when / if it grows out. The two I really want is a Pearlberry and Vivid's Confetti - I bought one but I don't expect it to be rea, - again I think I will have to go with Eurocorals frags
@jules2545 Жыл бұрын
Off topic but a subject close to your heart or so it seems. I have bitten the bullet and started dosing Kalkwasser at night and All for reef during the day. I do like the idea of a higher pH. A quick question for you, what is the best way of connecting flexible dosing tubing to RO tubing please?
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
You can get little adapters...
@jules2545 Жыл бұрын
@@ReefDork At the risk of sounding like a peckerwood, where from and what are they called please🙄
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
@@jules2545 peckerwood 😅 just start by searching for 1/4 inch reducer and go from there...
@jules2545 Жыл бұрын
@@ReefDork Thanks XXX
@92joos Жыл бұрын
The rainbow loom also very much looks like a mango joe 😬.
@merrittmcdowell8675 Жыл бұрын
Need to find yourself a piece of an Icefire echinata it is gorgeous!
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
I can't keep the stuff unfortunately! Real shame - it's a beautiful coral 👌
@merrittmcdowell8675 Жыл бұрын
@@ReefDork does it not do good in your system?
@Sammy31Dee Жыл бұрын
@@merrittmcdowell8675 keep it mid to lower in tank....it's a deep water acro....grows like a weed for me
@merrittmcdowell8675 Жыл бұрын
@@Sammy31Dee i dont have an issue, i was just asking dork if he can get it or if hes seen it before
@floriankurath2143 Жыл бұрын
Your rainbow loom acropora might be a Mango garden acro
@enzomontini758 Жыл бұрын
And it’s because of reef dork Iv now got a tropic thunder monti
@mbcoralreefing9025 Жыл бұрын
I have a successful tank with the tang gang and almost 5,000$ worth of corals I haven't had any thing die I've been selling and giving away tons of frags but I from some reason I can't keep a chalice coral I have digital Montiporas, hamer corals gold, toxic splatter frogspawns, zoa gardens purple xenthania yellow eye gondiporas 4 types of mashrooms gsp, Jason fox leather corals but for some reason I cant keep a chalice coral it will last a good 5 months before it starts to bleach maybe I'm not feeding the coral as much as Im supposed to I have lsp and sps corals in the same tank that could be another reason but everything lives but a chalice coral
@deanfielding4411 Жыл бұрын
I keep my Chalice corals well near the bottom of my tank. If they’re bleaching it could be too much light. One of them almost lives in the dark!
@mbcoralreefing9025 Жыл бұрын
@@deanfielding4411 yes thank you that could be the only reason I thought they needed all the light they can get so I put them at the way top of course
@IrishInsomniac76 Жыл бұрын
With ya on the hair growth buddy :)
@damiantosd8720 Жыл бұрын
Great job on pronouncing the birds nest real name.
@dusk1947 Жыл бұрын
Well done. I really appreciate that you took the time to present both the hobby name and it's suspected genus and species. A level of effort far too many shops and content creators skip. That extra detail goes along way with viewers trying to procure a frag of there own, and it certainly conveys an extra level of professionalism. For example. The Pikachu you showed is the European Pikachu. While here is the states, a "Pikachu" is usually an Acropora microclados (same species as a strawberry shortcake), which isn't what you have. However, both Pikachu common names are accurate; which is why using common names is so inaccurate as a practice.
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
Yeah, when I Googled Pikachu it came up with the microclados type hence why I chose the generic option for this! Annoyingly I couldn't find the species for the Euro version...
@markmckinnell2204 Жыл бұрын
A customer of Christian at Signature Frags me thinks 🤔
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
I have bought a few bits from there but I think I ended up moving them all on...
@nim6us Жыл бұрын
I was gonna ask the same question because I’ve bought the watermelon chalice and the inferno goni from him this year. Both stunners!! 😍
@catodk5727 Жыл бұрын
I really love the Blue Gorgonia❤ Unfortunately it’s a bitch to keep alive. So until my coral keeping skills improves I will have to say torches 😂
@StubbyAcro Жыл бұрын
Is your urchin still alive? The turf algae problem looks quite bad. That could be a sign that your rocks are becoming a phosphate reservoir. You should address your phosphate problem as problematic rocks could lead to a tank crash.
@estonianreefer2851 Жыл бұрын
2.25 , is that when your wife told you off for dripping saltwater on the floor ? 😁
@pelagicswimmer Жыл бұрын
Interesting choices, I still flinch and want to slap the screen at your taxonomic nomenclature, species names with a capital letter ahhhhrrrrrrrrrr
@ReefDork Жыл бұрын
It's just for KZfaq - I also capitalise every word in my titles...