Beginner Coral: Corals For First Saltwater Reef Aquarium
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Corals For Beginners

Choose easy beginner coral for your first saltwater reef aquarium from our selection of Corals. This grouping of aquarium corals has been thoughtfully chosen for the first time saltwater reef aquarist. All corals recommended by our own team of coral experts for both hardiness and easy care. Our Corals for Beginners section is a beautiful group of popular corals that are both hardy and easy to care for. All placed together in one grouping of Beginner Corals. Shop here for easier-to-care-for reef aquarium corals that are well-suited for the beginning aquarist. Get going and enjoy your first reef saltwater aquarium simply by shopping our Corals For Beginners section where every coral is both hardy and easy to care for.

Note: When choosing your aquarium corals read the individual coral requirements, read the necessary water movement, read dietary and supplemental needs,read the lighting needs, and read the recommended coral placement. That's all there is to it.

Elephant Ear Mushroom Coral
Rhodactis mussoides
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Description A very easy to grow mushroom species with a leathery texture. Will grow to sizes of 4 inches or more across! A perfect soft coral for lower light areas of your reef tank or for beginner aquarists just starting out with corals. Actinic lighting will cause the fluorescence to glow neon green.

Care Level Easy
Colored Elephant Ear Mushroom Coral
Rhodactis mussoides
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Description The Discosoma carlgreni mushroom comes from the florida keys in the caribbean and their surrounding reefs. Like other discosoma mushrooms there are many different color morphs and tentacle patterns within this species. Carlgreni mushrooms share many of the same characteristics and care requirements as Tonga mushrooms (Rhodactis inchoata). They prefer moderate lighting, med – low flow, and don’t need pristine water conditions; making them a suitable candidate as a beginner coral. Unlike other discosoma mushrooms which have a tendency to spread and take over an aquarium, these are a much slower growing variety.

Care Level Easy
St. Thomas Bubble Mushroom, Blue
Rhodactis sanctithomae
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Description St. Thomas Mushrooms are a beautiful species covered with big bubbles which almost make them look like bubbletip anemones. They are hardy and easy to care for and come in a assortment of colors. St. Thomas Mushroom is also called the Warty Corallimorph, or the Atlantic Bubble Mushroom. It is wild collected and offered as single polyps. It's totally unique in it's bubbles, colors & patterns! These are loose polyps and are not attached to any significant amount of substrate. They will eventually attach to any clean substrate in your tank, or you can epoxy or superglue them to what ever you want.

Care Level Easy
St. Thomas Bubble Mushroom, Green
Rhodactis sanctithomae
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Description St. Thomas Mushrooms are a beautiful species covered with big bubbles which almost make them look like bubbletip anemones. They are hardy and easy to care for and come in a assortment of colors. St. Thomas Mushroom is also called the Warty Corallimorph, or the Atlantic Bubble Mushroom. It is wild collected and offered as single polyps. It's totally unique in it's bubbles, colors & patterns! These are loose polyps and are not attached to any significant amount of substrate. They will eventually attach to any clean substrate in your tank, or you can epoxy or superglue them to what ever you want.

Care Level Easy
St. Thomas Bubble Mushroom, Red
Rhodactis sanctithomae
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Description St. Thomas Mushrooms are a beautiful species covered with big bubbles which almost make them look like bubbletip anemones. They are hardy and easy to care for and come in a assortment of colors. St. Thomas Mushroom is also called the Warty Corallimorph, or the Atlantic Bubble Mushroom. It is wild collected and offered as single polyps. It's totally unique in it's bubbles, colors & patterns! These are loose polyps and are not attached to any significant amount of substrate. They will eventually attach to any clean substrate in your tank, or you can epoxy or superglue them to what ever you want.

Care Level Easy
Pink Pacific Yuma, Ricordea Yuma
Ricordea Yuma - Single Polyp
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Description Pink Pacific Yuma is highly desirable for both their vibrant color and attractive textures. Pink Ricordea Yuma just glows with any actinic lighting. Somewhere between a mushroom and an anemone, Ricordea Yuma can actually be fed small amounts of food like frozen mysis shrimp.

Care Level Moderate
Green Watermelon Mushroom Rock
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Description The Green Watermelonn Mushroom Rock is Actinodiscus Mushrooms. These corals display a wide variety of colors, textures, and patterns. Some are solid colors, whereas, others are striped or spotted. Striped varieties are usually green. They are hardy and relatively easy to maintain, and under the right conditions, will multiply and spread very well.

Care Level Easy

Green Hulk Rhodactis Mushroom Rock
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Description The Green Hulk Rhodactis Mushroom is very easy to care for. It has Neon Green polyps with a rich texture Purple background. It looks simply awesome under actinic lighting. Often referred to as the Tonga Mushroom, Metallic Mushroom, Green Hairy Mushrooms and also sometimes the Tiny Elephant Ear Mushroom, this splendid coral is simple to care for and a fantastic exotic feel to any sort of reef tank.

Care Level Easy
Purple & Green Bullseye Mushroom, Aquacultured Rhodactis Inchoata Purple & Green Bullseye Mushroom, AquaculturedClick Picture for More Information

Description This is another awsome one. An excellent collector's item for any mushroom freak! A multicolored brilliant Purple and Green Bullseye mushroom is very beautiful indeed! An awesome color for aquacultured tonga mushrooms.

Care Level Easy
Superman Rhodactis Mushroom Rock
Rhodactis Inchoata
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Description This is another awesome one. An excellent collector's item for any mushroom freak! It looks simply awesome under actinic lighting. A multicolored brilliant, rare Red/Orange and Blue Bullseye mushroom is very beautiful indeed! An awesome color for Rhodactis Inchoata Mushrooms.

Care Level Easy
Blue Rhodactis Mushroom
Rhodactis Inchoata
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Description While Rhodactis species are frequently imported from throughout the Indo-Pacific for the marine aquarium trade in North America the Rhodactis Mushroom is also known among aquarist's as the Tonga Mushrooms. An excellent collector's item for any mushroom freak! Deep Blue, sometimes to Purple, very beautiful indeed!

Care Level Easy
Aussie Blue Mushroom Coral
Actinodiscus Sp.
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Description Aussie Blue Mushroom Corals come in many various shades of blue, ranging from a beautiful daytime sky blue to a deep navy blue. Blue Actinodiscus Sp. mushrooms nicely complement almost any color combination currently in your aquatic tank.

Care Level Easy

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Photos are representative of each species. All marine life is unique and your coral may not look identical to the image provided.
*Guarantee Restriction: All of our livestock are guaranteed. However for one or more of these species, they may be marked with a guarantee restriction. If it does, it means the specific animal may not handle stress from environmental conditions well. These stresses can include poor water quality, harassment from tank mates or confined aquarium conditions. When stressed, these species can lose the ability to ward off infection and disease. Other species may be listed as Restricted because they have such specialized feeding requirements that is difficult recreate in a aquarium and may succumb to malnutrition.