Help with coral placement

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Im not opposed to moving the corals in the tank currently. I have torches, encrusting montipora, acans and favia in quarantine and im going to be adding acros a couple months down the road. Where would you place coral with this aquascape? Thanks in advance!

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Well If your planning on doing acros I'd probably leave 2 and 6 and open for that (depending on how many varieties you wants). 5 Would be a good place for the favia or the encrusting montipora because it looks like its separate from the main rock work so the encrusting corals couldn't completely take over the rock work. Favia have a wicked sting and stupid long sweepers so its important to give them a lot of space. You could put a torch at 8 if you wanted to have most of your euphyllia in one space (although I'd move the duncan because torches don't play nice with others, not even with hammers or frogspawn) or you could add it to the 1 area if you wanted to spread the movement these coral provide more evenly around the tank. The acans could be kept on or near the sandbed to free up a little more space as well. I think the issue with helping you do this and perhaps what deterred others (although possible your thread just got lost in the sea of new post) is that it kind of comes down to personal preference and what your vision of the tank looks like once its all grown in.

Outside of the flow, light, coral warfare, ease of access for feeding etc considerations it really comes down to your preferences.

Something that has helped me figure out coral placement in my tank is doing what you did above but placing color/shape representations of the corals in different places. This well let you find what colour combinations you find most attractive, give you a sense of how these corals might fill out and best of all you can see "that spot might be too close to the favia" instead of finding a zapped coral there the next day. Heres an example of the one I made for my tank, I hope this helps!
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Well If your planning on doing acros I'd probably leave 2 and 6 and open for that (depending on how many varieties you wants). 5 Would be a good place for the favia or the encrusting montipora because it looks like its separate from the main rock work so the encrusting corals couldn't completely take over the rock work. Favia have a wicked sting and stupid long sweepers so its important to give them a lot of space. You could put a torch at 8 if you wanted to have most of your euphyllia in one space (although I'd move the duncan because torches don't play nice with others, not even with hammers or frogspawn) or you could add it to the 1 area if you wanted to spread the movement these coral provide more evenly around the tank. The acans could be kept on or near the sandbed to free up a little more space as well. I think the issue with helping you do this and perhaps what deterred others (although possible your thread just got lost in the sea of new post) is that it kind of comes down to personal preference and what your vision of the tank looks like once its all grown in.

Outside of the flow, light, coral warfare, ease of access for feeding etc considerations it really comes down to your preferences.

Something that has helped me figure out coral placement in my tank is doing what you did above but placing color/shape representations of the corals in different places. This well let you find what colour combinations you find most attractive, give you a sense of how these corals might fill out and best of all you can see "that spot might be too close to the favia" instead of finding a zapped coral there the next day. Heres an example of the one I made for my tank, I hope this helps!
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It helps a ton, thanks!
Its tough for me because im just not sure how some of the corals will grow in.

Thanks again
 
It helps a ton, thanks!
Its tough for me because im just not sure how some of the corals will grow in.

Thanks again
No problem! Asides from googling what colonies of so and so corals look like I found it also helped to checkout the _____ Show off thread or the _____ eye candy threads on the different coral sub forums, a lot of people post their impressive colonies in the those threads and that really helped me when I needed to get a feel for it. If that doesn't work lots of people just start threads asking if anyone has colony of _____ and to share some photos!
 

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