Grouping Corals in a Reef Habitat

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Title says it all…

Im unsure which coral species are compatible with one another when building up a coral habitat. I’m planning on gluing the corals to a CaribSea base live rock, with each live rock base dependent on the following coral groupings. Ideally, I’m 90% sure similar family corals won’t harm each other, but I keep seeing mixed reef set ups and I’m like “HOW?!?”

Thank you to those enlightening me

I have the following corals frags:

Mushroom Group Live Rock:
Rhodactis
Fl. Ricordea
Ric. Yuma
Discosoma (red)

Misc. Group:
blue sympodium
Encrusting GSP
UtterChaos and Speckled Agave WWC
two micro-gonioporas
NPS Gorgonian (yellow and red)


Monti-coral Group:
Diamond encrusting monti
Red cap monti
White cap monti

 

[Spare time]

Often times those packed reef tanks you see have corals constantly going to war or are being trimmed very frequently by the owner.

ps keep things like sympodium and gsp on their own rocks.



Usually you want to give different corals room to grow out as things such as flow and light coverage will change as they get larger.


The other part about mixed reefs is that you have to nail down flow as a lot of people will keep corals that are used to dramatically different flow. This is something you have to play with to see how to make all the different corals happy.