Good corals for the back wall?

[Dr4gula.f32]

I have a JBJ 65 and glued a frag to the back wall. I dont know what it is, and it is actually encrusting to the wall, so cool!

What other coral can I put on the left side that will do well?

I have a jack o lantern lepto frag...Would that work?

Bulbasaur chalice?

 

[Rmckoy]

The first picture is a chalice. .

I don’t know about the lepto. They are one coral I have tried many times and can’t seam To keep them alive

I was always told that corals attached to the glass could have less flow and less light but many here have been successful with corals encrusted glass .

 

[kdx7214]

I've had good luck with green star polyps and zoanthids

 

[Mikedawg]

I place Xenia on top of a rock leaned against the back wall and it soon spreads

 

[radfly]

First picture is a bling bling cyphastrea. I have a Stylocoeniella growing on my back wall…

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[Derrick0580]

Any encrusting monti

 

[Dr4gula.f32]

First picture is a bling bling cyphastrea. I have a Stylocoeniella growing on my back wall…

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I've never seen my polyps extended like that.

 

[ReefEco]

You can grow any coral on a vertical surface, don't worry - challenge is attaching it. Check out the CoralWall : ) Blatant self promotion aside, zoas and encrusters are great - the challenge is what happens when different corals grow into each other and start to fight. Zoas are great because you can get a wide range of colors, and they won't fight. Having them on the back wall also kind of isolates them from overgrowing other corals on your rocks, which they can do pretty easily long term.

 

[archercorals]

Montis, zoas, cyphastrea, anything encrusting

 

[Jmp998]

Piece of live rock rubble, epoxy, and sealed magnets-make your own floating rock for $5. I put clove polyps on them, also a bernadopora, but anything with extending polyps works. When the polyps are extended you can't even see the rock, but you can still move for cleaning, or if you change your mind, or if you just have something you want to look like it is part of your main rock work but not actually be able to spread out of control.

 

[Alex.qld]

Zoanthids are perfect for that - i had the backwall entirely covered in a previous tank - they are pretty, easy to frag from there if you plant rare/expensive species and i am sure that when they reach sufficient biomass they participate to filtration