Hi I'm interested in the types of corals everyone on here. I'd like to know how how many corals you have (individual species aswell ex: 16 types zoas,) and if your tank is either sps, Lps, softie dominant, or a mixed reef and also how big it is. Also interested in interesting coral pairs you have, in other words corals that probably shouldn't be together but don't fight or cause problems with each other. And of course I want pictures, you guys better post pics of your tanks too lol.
How many corals do you have?
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So my tank is a 20 tall with fuge. I keep everything under ai primes for anyone curious. But I keep a mixed Reef with a good variety of sps lps and softies. I have 75 types of corals in the tank. Probably about a 1/3rd of everything, aside from coral warfare and possibility of allelopathy I never saw a reason to keep a certain type of coral only and knew from the beginning I wanted variety. The only problems I have had, have been stinging, but with ample space and proper knowledge of what corals I can let slide being in proximity and which ones need there own space I have avoided deaths for quite a while, little damage here and there. I like to say everything in my tank has died tragically such as being stung or murdered lol and not by natural causes or water quality. For the most part I find corals that grow or move into each other by 'fate' typically squabble less. I have a frogspawn and torch which touch somewhat and they've been good. But my hammer on the other hand has it's own spot. My goneopora stung my micromussa, that one really surprised me. My lps seem to be very forgiving to most of the softies especially the zoas and palys, the torch and frogspawn are growing over a green paly 'field' and have not killed them, and sure enough they keep growing. My zoas often get touched by brain sweeper tentacles to no ill effects. I also have (my personal favorite) a rainbow bubble tip anemone growing on top of my green start polyp mat, looks sweet. I'd say leather corals are most susceptible to coral warfare from my experience, they shrivel right up. I also found out the hard way that acan echinata ARE NOT TO BE PUT WITH OTHER
ACANS. It dang near killed one of my pink ones, there was the tiniest bit of flesh left from about 7+ heads and has since returned to 1 full head, I thought it was dead in the water
but the acan echinata has since got a corner to itself and hasn't cause any further problems. This one was kind of obvious and I already knew but nothing should be really kept around chalices, I had a chalice fall onto a brain coral and have since had it come back from the brink of death.
ACANS. It dang near killed one of my pink ones, there was the tiniest bit of flesh left from about 7+ heads and has since returned to 1 full head, I thought it was dead in the water
but the acan echinata has since got a corner to itself and hasn't cause any further problems. This one was kind of obvious and I already knew but nothing should be really kept around chalices, I had a chalice fall onto a brain coral and have since had it come back from the brink of death.
