Galaxea Coral placement

[Susan Edwards]

I have a nice rainbow galaxea coral and need to find a place for it. Trouble is, it has really long sweepers and lots of them! I had it high on a rock with nothing near it--tank is only 2 months old. Glued it to a lone rock and put it in front of my glass, in front of another rock with gps on it. Last night, I couldn't believe the 7-8 inch sweepers that could reach the gsp's and the favia next to it on the sand bed!

Most of the tank has pretty good flow, and turbulent flow--4 wavemakers. The 2 corners probably the least flow. Tank is a 125 gal with current ic marine pro lights approx 7 inches above water.

So where is the best place? Up high and maybe sweepers are away from anything?
Mid-up against rock where there is nothing-but that means I lose all that space
Back corner where there is no other coral, and won't be coral on the back of hte rocks but flow most likely lower here.

There's one of the super long one but half of what it was last night during lights off

Peek a boo from the ruby head wrasse peeking through hole in gsp rock

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[jtvaughn]

I have this frag in my tank too and those sweepers were murder on my softees. I decided to move mine on the highest point of rock atop of my frog spawn and hammer corals. No more issues once I made the change.

 

[Susan Edwards]

Might try that. Just pile the rock onto of the highest rock.

 

[mckinney0171]

Had to yank this one out of my tank. Sweepers are deadly and they can reach feet not inches. And they also can reach around rocks. Most Aggressive coral I have ever found.

 

[Susan Edwards]

Ugh. Back corner maybe...

 

[sfin52]

Reason not in my tank. They are aggressive and send tentacles out a long way. I thought my acan was bad these are worse. Acan died in dino outbreak.

 

[nfrench2100]

Beautiful coral. This was probably the 10th or so coral that I put in my tank last year. Needless to say, I only kept it for about 2 months before I decided to take it back to LFS. For such a small coral (3-4” frag), it took up so much space in my tank. I couldn’t keep any other coral within 10 inches of it. It killed a frag of zoas and a head of my hammer, so I quickly decided it just wasn’t the coral for my tank. Good luck with it!

 

[PiscesPower]

I have one on a rock in the back of my tank. It is surrounded by Xenia on 3 sides. It keeps it from the back glass of my tank. Sometimes the sweepers can be useful.

 

[Susan Edwards]

I tried the back corner but there is almost no flow there. the twin overflows block the flow in the corners even though I have ph's next to each overflow pointing to the opposite side of tank, and 2 on each end. Might need to shift the two on each end so they point down the length of tank instead of angling toward front of tank. Or one pointing behind rockwork, and one in front.