Help with coral placement

[Lukielight]

So being my first reef tank I'm not really sure how to arrange things so when they grow out I'm not in trouble with shading and coral warfare. Can you make suggestions on where to place my coral. I realize this probably is mostly opinion mixed with experience but give me some ideas. The only corals glued in place so far are the leather and the zoas/palys.

Frag list
-Toxic green leather
-Pink star polyps
-orange ricordia mushroom
-Assorted zoas and palys which I think are ok where they are
-green slimer acro
-bubble digi
- 2x encrusting montis
- 2x plating montis
-spongodes monti
-favia
-blasto
-leptastrea
-cactus pavona
-Plate coral
- 2x hammer corals

I can take more pictures if it helps.

 

[Lukielight]

Maybe it helps, I already have them placed by lighting and flow requirements. I more looking for dont put that monti above a coral it will shade it out. Or that pavonas sweepers will be bad when it gets big put it in a corner etc....

 

[Uncle99]

That appears to be a new tank, you should check both phosphate level and lighting, that’s a lot of green starting.
I would not glue nothing down until your tank matures more.

 

[Lukielight]

Tank is only 6 months. Was all dry rock which is why it's all neon green I have some coraline starting sporadically. Nitrates about 10ppm Phosphate 0.04ppm.

The issue is my hermits bulldoze them over and I find them on the sand bed every morning.

 

[monti mike]

I think your coral placement is looking pretty good. My .02 is to think about your plating montis as the size and shape of a dinner plate. Do you want them to grow and help create an overhang or emphasize a cave? Everything underneath the plating monti will be shaded. I also like to put zoas/star polyps on a rock that’s not connected to everyone else, like a zoa island in the sand. They can grow fast and that’ll keep them from becoming a pest later on. Good luck! Looking forward to seeing how things fill in!

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

Favia and hammers can have nasty stings, kind of hard to gauge how far apart they are in the pics and video but some of their sweeper tentacles (tentacles met for zapping other corals) can extend up to 6 inches, should be fine for now but something to keep in mind as they grow, the blasto will for sure loose the fight against the favia.

 

[Lukielight]

Favia and hammers can have nasty stings, kind of hard to gauge how far apart they are in the pics and video but some of their sweeper tentacles (tentacles met for zapping other corals) can extend up to 6 inches, should be fine for now but something to keep in mind as they grow, the blasto will for sure loose the fight against the favia.

I have a chalice sitting pretty close to the green hammer. Will definitely move that and the blasto to give them more space. Thanks!

 

[Lukielight]

I think your coral placement is looking pretty good. My .02 is to think about your plating montis as the size and shape of a dinner plate. Do you want them to grow and help create an overhang or emphasize a cave? Everything underneath the plating monti will be shaded. I also like to put zoas/star polyps on a rock that’s not connected to everyone else, like a zoa island in the sand. They can grow fast and that’ll keep them from becoming a pest later on. Good luck! Looking forward to seeing how things fill in!

The zoas and palys are on 3-5" pieces of rubble so I can move them as they grow and frag off it necessary. I may continue that pattern with the rest of the frags to keep them moveable. The montis are one of my bigger concerns trying to gauge how big and what they will look like. Thanks!

 

[ZipAdeeZoa]

I have a chalice sitting pretty close to the green hammer. Will definitely move that and the blasto to give them more space. Thanks!

No problem! You'll most likely have some time before you need to blasto as favia are typically pretty slow growers. Also didn't see that you had a chalice but they can also have a pretty nasty sting although not all of them have sweeper tentacles (Chalice refers to few different species of corals with similar growth patterns).

 

[Lukielight]

No problem! You'll most likely have some time before you need to blasto as favia are typically pretty slow growers. Also didn't see that you had a chalice but they can also have a pretty nasty sting although not all of them have sweeper tentacles (Chalice refers to few different species of corals with similar growth patterns).

Yea I got a frag pack from WWC so I dont necessary know the specific species of some of them like the chalice just their brand naming of them.