Help with coral placement before I start gluing!?!?

[MoshJosh]

Going to add my new rock work today, need advice on placing all my corals as I’m sick of them sitting on frag plugs.

scape:

There will be moderate flow coming from the top left, higher flow coming from the middle right

coral I will be gluing today:

green finger leather
Hand leather
Kenya tree
Blue mushroom
(not gluing the foot of the soft corals, but the rumble they’re attached to)

Green pavona
Red plating monti
Bubble coral

Future corals (maybe):

frog spawn or hammer
Birds nest
Ricordia

also I have a bubble tip anemone I hope will take up residence on the top left

 

[tbrown]

I'd put the corals in with the frag plugs for now and make sure they're happy prior to gluing them. If they're happy after a week or so, cut the plugs off and glue them where they're at. Just my opinion. The frag plugs will make it easier to move them around if they're unhappy. Once they're glued they're glued...

 

[waterbox15aio]

I typically think in terms of light and future growth potential. Higher light corals such as montis towards the top where they have space to plate out and not shade other corals. Smaller lower light coral’s such as mushrooms/zoas towards bottom front or partially shaded areas.

Frogspawn, leathers etc off to sides in open space, typically with room to grow and not shadow or sting other stuff.