I went for Corals! But I have "easy corals" If I had an SPS tank my answer may be different!

 

I would say fish because i have never had any corals at least not yet.....

Tim

 

Way to general Chris, Fish and Corals have a HUGE range of needs that must be met

 

Yeah, I know Doug...but my Saturday mind didn't know how to make it more specific.

Just in your general experience, what has been easier...?

 

corals!!!

i find fish difficult. corals are easy. if the tank is setup for the biotope of corals you want to keep, the rest is easy.

G~

 

Bettas

 

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I would say corals....as fish seem more demanding or tempermentale as well.

Plus you can't really "FRAG" your fish! :banana:

 

I vote fish. I have kept sw fish for 11 years with very few deaths or problems. I have had my reef set up for only 1 yr and it has been a lot of work.

 

IME, Fish are much easier, at least in terms of equipment and tolerable ranges of water parameters. OTOH, corals are easier to maintain, given that your parameters are stable.

 

Way to general Chris, Fish and Corals have a HUGE range of needs that must be met

Yea that 's to vague!You can have picky fish and some Corals that need to be feed separate.

 

I find Corals tanks to be easier to care, I have been doing all my tanks with very few fish and mostly corals for years, Very easy to have fish polute the tank much faster. which make the need for more WC's.

 

Well guys i know i am way to new at this to know better. But getting in to the hobbie i was lead to belive that keeping corals would be close to inposible for a newbie. but my coral are fin the truth is i can see them grow. but my fish that is a hole other store one got sick and started a chain reaction. 3 died and 1 slill sick. they are so hard to pull out of the tank to treat them, that is why i went for fish.

 

Work wise its corals for sure. You have lots less import of nutrients and less chance for things to build up in the tank. Corals don't get diseases like fish. Corals are easier to control when it come to territory.

The biggest thing that makes corals easier is the importation of nutrients and their lower metabolisms. Fish can really foul up a tank.

Given if your just wanting a "tank", fish are very simple (generally) compaired to corals and are much more tollerant to errors in husbandry (generally).

Now another beast would be mixed tank where you have fish and corals involved. It becomes very difficult maintain perameters that will support both. The balencing act can easily become upset with repects to nutrient importation.

 

Simply because I've had more corals die than fish, I went fish. Fish don't much care if there's nitrates or phosphate in the water. Few fish will die of hair algae or weak lights.

Damsels and Sarcophyton are easy, pipefish and Acropora's are not.

 

corals, because all of theirreactions are based off of the water quality and touch. the fish have sight and that adds one more thing for them to stress over.

 

My opinion Fish are easier to care for. but i don't have coral right now to say.

 

My opinion Fish are easier to care for. but i don't have coral right now to say.

i think this may lead to the point that is being made here. those of us that think corals are easier are trying to keep corals, and the fish are secondary. those that find fish easier are trying to keep the fish and corals are something to look at while the fish is swimming by.

i think it all boils down to what are you trying to keep in your system.

G~

 

it depends how you have your tank set up and what type of each yo uare looking to keep.

Keeping corals in a set up designed for fish would be hard, and tanks set up for hard core corals may be hard to keep fish happy.....read around, many people choose to almost starve their fish to keep nutrient levels down..

 

I had both...i go for the corals.

 

I had FOWLR w/ aggresive fish ( EASY )
I had FOWLR w/ Non-aggresive fish ( NOT EASY DUE TO FISH DISEASE/PARASITES )
I had corals w/ reef friendly fish ( FISH NEARLY WIPED OUT EXCEPT FOR THE GOBY & SKUNK PAIR )

- Now I only run things with CORALS and some remaining fish. This setup is the best for me and it's been doing great.

- So, I go for CORALS.

 

I picked coral but I only have easy corals as well.

 

Fish.

No corals.

I mean fish.

Uh, Im not sure.

Well simple soft corals

w/ a low fish load is the simplest,

but I need something that can swim arround.

So I guess neither or both whichever you prefer.