I am approaching my 1 year tank anniversary. There have been good and bad moments, but all is going well. Anyway, I'm looking at my tank and realizing several colonies are starting to crash into each other. Where some are touching, the 'loser' is starting to lose tissue in that area. What's the common practice? Do I trim? Or just let them battle it out?
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Haha! Up to you, some including myself just leave it be. But best practice would be to frag off battle zone.I am approaching my 1 year tank anniversary. There have been good and bad moments, but all is going well. Anyway, I'm looking at my tank and realizing several colonies are starting to crash into each other. Where some are touching, the 'loser' is starting to lose tissue in that area. What's the common practice? Do I trim? Or just let them battle it out?
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Depends on what you want and how healthy things are. By all means frag away and make some money or put the frags elsewhere in the tank or another tank as backup frags. Or let them go like a natural reef. Yes there will be die off but that area will be overgrown by the new coral and the loser will continue to grow elsewhere. Eventually you'll start getting that full/crowded reef look as they grow together. It's all down to personnel preference IMO.
Thanks guys! I'll probably just let it go for now. Nothing too desirable here, so not worth having a bunch of frags sitting around. My sand is already 'frag city' with other stuff. Ha. Just wanted to be sure I wasn't inciting some epic RTN-inducing coral war by letting things get out of hand. You have eased my mind.
tomtom2245
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The only thing to watch out for would be algae growth on the newly exposed skeleton.
