Too Much Success: Are There Such Things as “Garbage Coral”?

[VirginiaReefer]

Not me over here with a tank full of Xenia, branching GSP, toadstool leather, neon green rhodactis, pipe organ, and a bunch of zoa frags hahaha. As a beginner with a 7 week old tank I find the idea of successfully getting my coral “out of hand” exciting. And when we run out of space… so much the better to say “we’d better start over with a new tank!”

while it does take some time it is awesome to see a pic comparison even 6 months out from the beginning.

 

[Serpentman2024]

One person's garbage is another person's treasure. Some "garbage" corals are great trade fodder locally for frags etc.

Personally, my garbage coral isn't a technically a coral but bubbletip anemones (not the colorful kind). They're spreading like wildfire in one of my tanks.

 

[BeanAnimal]

GSP, green palys, and red mushrooms

Blue Ridge LPS
I have tossed barge loads of it over a few decades
The same with red cnidarian mushrooms buy the hundreds (thousands?)
I want it all gone but that will never happen, it is everywhere
Large green paly (can never get it all out).
Green leather (pink when angry)

In past eras
Pusling Sinularia
Green Pocillopora
red plating monti
purple plating monti

Maybe some others.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Not me over here with a tank full of Xenia, branching GSP, toadstool leather, neon green rhodactis, pipe organ, and a bunch of zoa frags hahaha. As a beginner with a 7 week old tank I find the idea of successfully getting my coral “out of hand” exciting. And when we run out of space… so much the better to say “we’d better start over with a new tank!”

Yup! That’s sorta how I got to tank five, with #6 on the way. Lol! All fun stuff though!

 

[LARedstickreefer]

I’ve seen members here nearly giving away full grown colonies of the “low end” common stuff and have no takers. It hurts me to think what wound up happening to those corals.

This is why I’m sticking to mid to high end corals only now with me newest “reboot”. Think Angry Birds Acro and godbeast zoas…

If I’m lucky and need to free up space, I should have no trouble.

-Matt

 

[fish farmer]

Oh they got to figured out!

“Quick, push a stripe out and he’ll keep us!”

These are ones I have actually tried to suck out before.....camouflage or stress response.

 

[Zakary2003]

I have GSP, green kenya tree, pulsing xenia, and black widow bubble tip anemones at plague proportions in my 20 gallon AIO cube. Luckily my LFS takes all of them and will even give me free water in exchange for the corals and store credit for the nems.

The largest of my green kenya trees drops 4-6 babies a week when it's happy. The smaller ones drop another combined 5 or so babies a week as well. My LFS gives me a gallon of pre-made salt water per medium sized kenya tree, so I stick the babies onto a frag plug and take them in when they get larger.

The anemone didn't split for over a year, but then all of a sudden split into 3 parts and has been multiplying and wrecking havoc on my tank ever since.

 

[VintageReefer]

Sold my LFS a 3-4” rock of gsp. They offered 75$ for it and I took before they came to their senses and changed their mind

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Sold my LFS a 3-4” rock of gsp. They offered 75$ for it and I took before they came to their senses and changed their mind

I would say you got a pretty good deal, haha.

 

[VintageReefer]

I would say you got a pretty good deal, haha.

I sold them a 3-4” rock a few months ago for 60$ also…I walked in hoping to get 20$ for it lol

This time I was expecting 60 and the guys like would you take 75$ ? Heck yea ring it up! Do you want to get any coral today? Not from you guys.

Bet they would love to sell me that $250 “hellfire torch” before it’s completely dead and a total loss for them. Looked like a regular Indo gold with the skeleton showing and a few days away from polyp bail out

 

[steveschuerger]

Captain Jerk Palys. They’re a bland greenish thing that comes under the heading “why the heck would you want it?” Unless you’re looking for a complete set of every zoa/paly there is. I got some as freebie last year and stupidly didn’t toss it. Took months to completely rid the tank of it.