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[emoji50]The death grip
Never add an encrusting monti to your rockwork!
Fishfinder
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Oh ya. I have a sunset monti doing that to a WWC banana table. Have to cut that encrusting piece out!
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bubbaque
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How? I don't want to take the rock out and chisel it off.
Frag the portion sticking up off and then kalk the base. Done!
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This is just straight acro goals right here ;Stop
Fishfinder
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That's exactly what I had to do. Pulled the entire rock and cut the encruting piece out
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Yeah it's a rainbow monti killing the bubblegum digi. The monti is probably 8 inches across now. I feel I would need a lot of kalk paste to kill and I worry about it spiking ph or alk. I think my only option is to try and control it with super glue at this point.
Thank you!
That is what I am trying to avoid. If it was just the top rock I would but it's literally the base of my rock pile
Fishfinder
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Oh ya. That's a problem. Mine was a top rock with 3 acros and clam. Took about 15 minutes. Even glue won't solve your problem. Your best chance might be Moving the digi and letting the rainbow have that rock
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You might have to cut the Digi's out and move them
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The death grip
Rainbow monti killing the bubblegum digi. Never add an encrusting monti to your rockwork!
Wise advice!
The Monti will lose the battle every time in my tank. lol.
I have removed most encrusting Montis from my tank for this reason. This is also the reason I use tiles instead of live rock. So easy to remove a whole tile and move or trim the piece.
By the way, those are both good looking corals, it is a shame the Monti must lose! lol.
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The tiles is a smart move and being able to move around trouble pieces is wise.
In this case it’s the bubblegum digi losing the war.
Fishfinder
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I love the ease of tiles but in a display it just isn't natural. I don't even want to see a plug in my display lol
tripdad
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I have something similar to your piece.
I got it from ASD labeled as Submarine TenuisThis is not the prettiest coral but it may be one of the fuzziest. This is hands down the hairiest coral I own. I just wish the polyps would get a better color. I do notice some polyps are starting to transition slightly. This frag has a little better color. I have shared this coral once before. It is a mariculture I picked up a while ago.
Anyone know what species it is?
Wrangy
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Rookie mistakeThe death grip
Rainbow monti killing the bubblegum digi. Never add an encrusting monti to your rockwork!
hahaJust get some putty and cover it over completely
problem solved and there's no fragging or mess required that's what I do or super glue You can use boiling ro as well but it's too close to the bubblegum for that! Boiling ro is an AMAZING problem solver! Completely reef safe and very destructive haha
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For the t5's I went with two blue+ and two actinic. I turned on the ab+ program today and I must say the tank has a very different look than I am use to. It didn't see to be as bright to my eyes as the ATI fixture either. I will see if my LFS has the par meter in tomorrow so I can adjust it.
