Can leathers touch each other?

[pulpfiction]

Specifically I have cabbage coral one pink and one green that I may put next to each other and let grow together. Are they technically the same coral so they won't fight each other? What is your experience with leather corals touching?

 

[MaxTremors]

Specifically I have cabbage coral one pink and one green that I may put next to each other and let grow together. Are they technically the same coral so they won't fight each other? What is your experience with leather corals touching?

IME, leathers are fine touching each other, I have Sarcophytons touching Neptheas touching Sinularias touching Lobophytums, just run some carbon and it’ll be fine.

 

[Sharkbait19]

Agree - touching is fine as long as one doesn’t overgrow the other and starve it for light. It’s mainly chemical or accidental warfare with these guys.

 

[pulpfiction]

IME, leathers are fine touching each other, I have Sarcophytons touching Neptheas touching Sinularias touching Lobophytums, just run some carbon and it’ll be fine.

Agree - touching is fine as long as one doesn’t overgrow the other and starve it for light. It’s mainly chemical or accidental warfare with these guys.

That's encouraging to hear. I was worried they might peeve each other off and release toxins constantly if they touched.

 

[Grsfish]

I think for the most part it’s ok. My green Kenya tree I think does bother the leathers around it and slows there growth

 

[albano]

I can’t stop them from touching… and growing!

 

[mfinn]

Yes they can. I've had wall to wall leathers with no issues.

 

[Sharkbait19]

I can’t stop them from touching… and growing!

Boy, I wish I could get my toadstool to grow like that. Instead, mine grows to about three inches wide then splits, so I have a bunch of small toadstools rather than one large one…