Cyphastrea vs Acro?

Velodog2 · Oct 5, 2014

Who would win a dominance battle between them? Anyone with experience here who can give me a clue before I glue something somewhere I will regret?

I am wanting to "glue" together some rock work in a low light area underneath some acro colonies and cyphastrea's ability to encrust quickly and love of the shadows would make it perfect for the job, but not if it will attack and kill the acros.

-Logzor · Oct 5, 2014

Cyphastrea will beat an acro in my experience.

ermartin · Oct 5, 2014

-logzor said:
cyphastrea will beat an acro in my experience.

this

Velodog2 · Oct 5, 2014

Nuts.

-Logzor · Oct 5, 2014

Cyphastrea can become a pest, best to isolate this coral on its own rock. This coral can grow quickly!

Velodog2 · Oct 5, 2014

I know, I have a couple of colonies. But they are like vampires avoiding the light.

I have a couple frags of a branching variety that have so far failed to do much however.

watchguy123 · Oct 6, 2014

it seems all encrusting coral seem to win the battle with acros. they may lose the initial battle, but they come back, again and again and again. I have tried to isolate cyphasterea as well as monti's. These encrusting corals seem to be impossible to kill or control when you want to.

-Logzor · Oct 6, 2014

watchguy123 said:
it seems all encrusting coral seem to win the battle with acros. they may lose the initial battle, but they come back, again and again and again. I have tried to isolate cyphasterea as well as monti's. These encrusting corals seem to be impossible to kill or control when you want to.

This is why I buy aquamend in bulk.

WindeyD · Oct 6, 2014

I have a meteor shower and I glue some small pieces of rock rubble around the perimeter of nearby corals. When the cyphasterea grows over the rubble I simply remove it and have a frag. I little work intensive but it works great!

-Logzor · Oct 6, 2014

WindeyD said:
I have a meteor shower and I glue some small pieces of rock rubble around the perimeter of nearby corals. When the cyphasterea grows over the rubble I simply remove it and have a frag. I little work intensive but it works great!

Makes it easy to sell frags too!

ViktorVaughn · Oct 9, 2014

Depends on the type of acro. If its a millepora, the milli might win.

Velodog2 · Oct 9, 2014

Here's an interesting related blurb

Keeping the Magic Alive, Cyphastrea Combos - reefs.com

saltyhog · Oct 9, 2014

They for sure win with moniti's. First pic was about a month ago, the second last week as the monti grew to the cyphastrea. They are not touching but when the monti got close the cyphastrea killed everything within a certain distance.

The white marks in the second picture are bite marks from a rogue combtooth blenny who doesn't live there any more (as of last night!). Hope it recovers.

miserkris · May 12, 2015

ignore ....see below post

miserkris · May 12, 2015

Reviving this good post...
I just bought a bunch of cyphastrea from the WWC live sale. I heard Cyphastrea can even kill zoa and palys. ....by growing over them WOW! Would love to see that happen with my Brown button palys.

I heard from a reefer that certain kinds are not fast growers eg, the wwc4-color and the CB Bling bling etc. Is it true?

Also can they be killed with Kalk ?I have killed corals where needed that way before.

Anyone know if 2 kinds of cyphastrea come closer will they kill the weaker one or just stop growing?

thanks.

Velodog2 · May 12, 2015

My meteor shower is pushing my bling bling to the back of the tank. The bling is getting killed on one side as fast as its growing on the other. The meteor is literally taking over the bottom of the tank even growing underneath the rocks. Looking forward to its looming battle with a large acan colony.

miserkris · May 12, 2015

Velodog2 said:
My meteor shower is pushing my bling bling to the back of the tank. The bling is getting killed on one side as fast as its growing on the other. The meteor is literally taking over the bottom of the tank even growing underneath the rocks. Looking forward to its looming battle with a large acan colony.

Phenomenal it's like a swarm of army ants or locusts lol. I'll make sure I kill my tiny meteor shower colony while I can it's in a base rock and only size of my middle finger.

Gonna try Kalk.
Thx