Top 5 Corals for the Substrate 

Love your videos Than! Thanks for the detailed info. As a science junkie, I especially love that you provide actual taxonomies as often as possible. I wish that were more wide spread in the industry.

I’m thinking about getting into the hobby with a reef tank. Trying to learn all I can before doing so. Greatly appreciate this content.

The walking dendro is so cute!

As always excellent content! Love this type of video and would love to see more about coral placement

Than, you mention Xenia on an island, but I’ve kept varieties that can “release” tops off the Xenia and blow around the tank settling in area I didn’t want. Just a watch out as that sure surprised me when I tried an island of them!

Most informative videos on corals I’ve found. I love how you give the scientific name too. Jake Adams would be proud.

Awesome video! Thanks man AND I am glad you put my favorite at #1. I loved my purple plate coral.

Excellent video Than. Tons of great info. I love the idea of containing Xenia

the criteria at the beginning.... brilliant!

Love your videos! Very helpful!

Thanks for the advice I'm really new to the hobby and I want to be able to make the right decisions when it comes to coral placement

Excellent content 🖖🏻. Lots to think about and clearly discussed 👍🏻🤔😁

Great video Than. Some nice tips for those aforementioned corals 👍

Love it. Thanks

Great information. Thank you.

As always amazing video!!!! Can’t wait till coral freaks UK 😊

Very interesting video. Keep the videos coming

Thank you for the videos

Super interesting.I didn't known.thanks👍

I agree with all the points you brought out, I used to have a Reef Aquarium so I understand exactly what you are talking about. I had most of those Corals, they are my favorite. One day, I will have another one, but First, I need to buy a house so I can have the space for another one. Thank you very much for sharing. Have a great weekend.

7:55 Than... you need to meet my elegance. It's tentacles (not the whole polyp) extend about 10" upwards 😂 Crazier than anything torch euphyllia can come up with! Great video with great corals! Thanks for thinking of the walking dendro - it doesn't nearly receive the attention it deserves!

Love the videos. Gald my favorite got mentioned. The plate coral

Yes!!! Totally right!!

Awesome video Than you have been busy with your new building haven't seen you in a while 👍👍

Très belle vidéo, merci beaucoup !!! 👍👍👍

I saw my Frosted Forest Aussie Lord eat a spaghetti worm once. Also saw that same coral eat a mushroom coral that had come off its frag plug. And watched another Aussie Lord eat a bristle worm. Yeah. My Aussie Lords don't mess around when it comes to eating.

Rico’s tank is so dope

excelente info aun que tuve que traducirlo por eso me encanta este canal excepcional información y contenido y util lo unico malo es que you tube no tiene estos videos ni con sub titulos al español aun asi excepcional gracias Tidal G,

How do you think elegance and plates would do on a bare bottom tank? Would you do a list on corals for the bottom of a bare bottom tank?

High quality video....

Hello I am from Brazil and I love your Chanel and your videos 👏🏻👏🏻🤝 Best regards

I love the look of plate Corals so much but I have a pistol shrimp and a nano :(. Next tank will be dedicated to the sand bed corals!

Ahhhh so my fungia is actually supposed to move - I am always trying to put shells and stuff around it to hem it in. I was told at the store (Fauna Marin) to put a shell or rubble under it to help keep pests away from its base that it can suffer from in the sand. I also thought a scoly prefers low flow and light so I keep my button in a cave - the color has definitely got better. Thanks Than ;)

Hi Than, i love your videos and calming voice! That brain at 3:00 caught me, is that a symphillia?

What are your thoughts on having hammers on the sandbed?

Good List but What about the Trachy's/Wellsos etc?? Steve

nice video ,i wish you could have showed more corals hey but thanks

At :27 there’s a micro Goni on the sand bed, I have that exact same coral and I’m wondering if yours ever comes out 😅

excellent information here. Have you done a video for those with BBT?

Great info 👍 one question, does it make plate coral not suitable for bare bottom tank?

I would say similar to xenia, green star polyps are good invasive coral to have on an island on the sandbed. The only issues being they love high flow which can disturb sand, and spaghetti worms bother them 😒

is plate coral good for beginner? i always see one on my local aquarium store

Not sure if this is a hot take, but I keep my mushrooms on the bottom as well. They all seem to do fine and readily multiply.

For some reason my scolly just die off after a few weeks and I don't understand why because I keep pretty regular tank maintenance

Hey Coral Aune im here...

How about goniopora? Definitely a bottom loving coral.

I like keeping acans on the substrate to get more of ball ahape rather than it growing on the rock

If I have pistol shrimp , does it make sense to have corals on the sand ?

What would you say about encrusting corals

I love your RU-vid channel and website! So beautiful, professional. Can you please make video about top 10 fastest growing corals? I can not find anything on fastest growing here at RU-vid. Also top 10 small size corals for 5 g nano reefs and pico tanks? Would be so great to learn from your experience.

@Tidal Gardens Cant wait to see a new video on Will's tank. Just saying :P

I used to put favias on the sand, but lately for some reason, they've been changing weird colors down there. It's probably because my bulb's spectrum is moving around. Now I really want a walking dendro, too, haha.

What’s the secret to raising pompom xenia? I haven’t been able to keep them for 20 years now. My last try was 4 months ago and they died again.

What is the coral at 0:24? I had a mystery frags gifted to me and i have one and have no idea. Im thinking its a gonipora but it never extends like it? Had it 2 days now

Would the trachy be considered a meaty coral I always see them in the substrate and Wichita substrate would be best I’m deeply considering make this my next coral

Than you must bring your camera when you come over to AAC in the UK - be interested to know your thoughts

Ive had a walking coral for a little over a year... One time a rogue emerald crab ended up stripping all of the flesh off of the base... Normally I would throw the coral away as it was completely bare and it had turned a chalky white...However because of the peanut worm I decided to leave it be... Somehow within 3 months the tissue had all grown back and it now looks better than ever 8 months later

"Never be cool".... Haha. Please, forgive me if this question is too old to answer, but what camera are you using ! Punchy-sharp and accurate colors. Outstanding presentation. Thank you.

I would consider Mushrooms on a island near the substrate. They can spread quickly and take over a tank just as easily as xenia.

What was the red white and blue coral at 3:50?

Need more of these videos. The live shows are irrelevant to us international viewers (specifically W.A. AUS as we can't import anything) How's the build going? Any plans on an update soon?

You brought up xenia as an honorable mention, i almost cried cuz i ordered one the other day and its almost dead :(( my nitrates are too low (0) Sometimes having perfect water is badd. Now im feeding like 3 times a day just to raise nitrates quickly

why would my lobo be bleaching on the sand where the light is low? I also cant believe it didint make the list! I have a lobo and just ordered a wellsi to keep on sand bed. They get very big for rockwork and also have a flat botton and are beautiful! and colorful! I also thought I heard you say b4 that plates were hard to keep! I have lost about 5 of them! Most recently a gorgeous tye dye looking body with long tentacles with blue tips! I scored it for 50 bucks and I know it was worth at least 400! It was about 5 inches in diameter as well!

I'm very new to this so bare with me. So I have a rainbow plate coral and I put it on the substrate when I got it. Everything looked OK and not knowing and better I moved it to a pretty thin and very flat live rock that I just got. I'd say it's about 1/2" thick so it's not to high off the floor. Well since I've done that, maybe 2 days. It has really started looking amazing. It's so much more open and "flowly" than before. It even looks a little bigger. Any idea why? My tank is only 25 gal and I have an AI light. LMK, if you need anymore info to figure this out or whatever. Thanks Edit: now that I think of it it's probably because it's more like the rocky substrate you described in the video. idk

Plate corals move by themselves?

About the xenia being on its island. From my experienced, they dont stay within that "island" it as if they exploded in the tank. And youd see alot of small polyps.

What is that in the end with the sand on it a sea slug?

How about bubble coral?

Muy interesante tu canal ¿no podras subtitularlo en español?

Would hairy mushrooms be a decent choice?

Micro lord

My elegance was doing great.. but as you mentioned, it was in the sandbed and suddenly the flesh started to come off from the skeleton. Now watching this video I noticed that the skeleton is black, so this is due to anaerobic conditions?

Trachy? Is there a reason why it was excluded that could help me identify anything special I need to do?

Can u do one for bare bottoms? Great vid

Great video. Would Trachophilia fall into meat corals? They can balloon up to make sand fall off, which would make them specifically a good choice I wld think.

Looks like Rico's Beast

What about favia ???

Can you dip the Walking Dendros? Im kinda worried about the peanut worm.

What is the name of that snail in the beginning

question, what is wrong with that blue tang at 1:00 minutes just curious

What about clams?

What is this at 13:41?

Wht is the bright green coral at 3:50

Mostly I think this is spot-on. I wouldn't use a coral's ability to shake off sand as a criterion. Most of us do daily tank maintenence, so you can just blow the sand off. Elegance corals feed better if you mush them up against the glass? What?!?

Is there any substrate anemones?

what is the coral at 5:59

Thought Acans would of made the list 😕

I feel like with enough water changes, you could get a Palau Jellyfish Lake thing going because of the intense clay soil base. It doesn’t have any nutrients of its own, but also none ever get out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WUYYHSxYPiU.html Don’t worry: I know for a fact that the osprey nests elsewhere (15th hole at country club).

Love the content but the slow direct was killing me.

What you actually came here for 4:20

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Whats up? Than is the Davie504 of reefing. Change my mind. Is there a coral you can slap? If so crossover video at 69,420 likes.