Crowded Corals

[madducks42]

Our tank is a couple years old now and doing great. Fish are healthy and happy and the coral are all growing fast. Some of them really fast, lol. For those of you with lots of coral in your tank, what happens when they start to encroach on each other? What do you do? Let it happen? Move the coral you care about most? Currently some of our super fast growing zoas are growing around a montipora and an acan. Will the zoas eventually kill the other two?

 

[James M]

Frag them when they begin to touch

 

[madducks42]

Frag them when they begin to touch

Unless we pull out the entire rock there isn’t anyway to frag the zoas and I don’t have much interest in fragging them anyway. I could try to scrape them off the rock but they grow crazy fast so it’s kind of a losing battle. I’d be scraping them back every 2 weeks. The acan I could move elsewhere, the SPS not so much.

 

[ReefyB]

I’m guessing the acan would win the fight w/ zoas. I’m dealing with a similar issue of my hairy mushroom split and is now touching one of my monti’s. Hasn’t seemed to react yet but I expect the monti to start showing signs of stress or something at some point, until then I’m kind of hoping they manage to get along because I really don’t want to have to try to move it, pretty sure I’ll break it

 

[Waters]

I usually let them fight it out, unless the coral that I like more is losing....in which case I frag back the aggressor.