15 Easy Corals For Your New Reef Tank

These corals prefer bright lights, however they will tolerate much lower levels. Preferring a gentle current, some Favites will attach to substrate if not moved for several months. Favites can be fed and seem to appreciate a squirt or two of brine shrimp at night.

Care should be taken with placement of these corals as they can send out transparent sweeper tentacles at night. Considered by many to be an easier coral to keep.

Considered a good coral for novices, these corals thrive under strong water current and bright lighting.

These corals prefer a gentle current, calcifying and expanding best in dim to moderate light. Specimens in this genus do not produce feeding tentacles and therefore receive their nutrition from absorption.

Does best without heavy skimming or highly efficient water filtration.

Considered an easy coral to keep.