[carriej]

Hi Folks,

After being chastised on a local board about my coral selections - I thought I would post on a more broad range to see what people would recommend in terms of easier LPS and softy corals to keep.

I have been keeping freshwater tanks for about 9 years, and have spent the last two years mostly into high tech planted tanks so I am not totally unfamiliar with dosing, monitoring and keeping the balance nor the hobby in general.

Seems to me the issue with picking my corals was that I picked up some green palys and green ricordeas. I was aware they can spread - but to me corals grow insanely slow compared to my freshwater tanks where some plants grow inches a day and need pruning every few days. Maybe I'm missing the entire point but I don't see what the big fuss is.

However - it had made me fear them. Apparently my "common" choice is going to lead to tank take overs. I'm not obsessed with the palys (but am now scared to touch them after reading up online) but I do like the ricordeas. I am also a bit nervous about this whole "palytoxin" thing, and being immune compromised with a severe autoimmune disease I can't see this being good for me.. lol

I also have a Duncan (my favorite), frogspawn, a torch, candycanes, an acan, a leather, a few different zoas, pulsing xenia.. I think that's it.

Any recommendations would be appreciated!