LIL Experiment LMK Your Thought's Please!

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Don't know if this was dumb or not, just glued 3 diff to see what would happen. Do you think one will overtake and smother them out?? Mabey they could intertwine?? They are encrusting to each other, dunno any thought's??
 
What are the three pieces? One will likely win out. Growth could be inhibited as well as they may expend more energy on surviving rather than growing. Or it could turn out to be the coolest thing ever...lol. Who knows. But my guess is that one will eventually swallow the others - and they all look like nice pieces!
 
+1 to what Craig said. You may get lucky and wind up with something awesome, but more than likely I see some chemical warfare in your future...
 
What are the three pieces? One will likely win out. Growth could be inhibited as well as they may expend more energy on surviving rather than growing. Or it could turn out to be the coolest thing ever...lol. Who knows. But my guess is that one will eventually swallow the others - and they all look like nice pieces!
Not sure on one on top but right is atl raspberry lemonade nasuta left is blue tenious.. Yeah i was wondering if i should pull it apart, but im really curious to see what happens too!
 
Do you have another piece of each coral? Those are 2 nice stonies and I would hate to see you lose one or both of them. If these are your only pieces, you may want to frag some off of each so you have a backup in case the experiment goes wrong.
 
+1 to what Craig said. You may get lucky and wind up with something awesome, but more than likely I see some chemical warfare in your future...
Yea im kind of on the fence on what to do, thats why i want everybody's opinion to help make my mind up
 
Do you have another piece of each coral? Those are 2 nice stonies and I would hate to see you lose one or both of them. If these are your only pieces, you may want to frag some off of each so you have a backup in case the experiment goes wrong.
Yes i have multible frags + their colonys!
 
Looks like a great experiment. Not sure what would happen but if anything, it'll be a great learning experience. You'll never know, may turn out to be something no one has ever seen before.
 
Looks like a great experiment. Not sure what would happen but if anything, it'll be a great learning experience. You'll never know, may turn out to be something no one has ever seen before.
Yea i just hope it does not do them harm for my enjoyment!
 
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Lil update.. Don't think the tenious will be able to keep up, probly gonna pop it off..The nasuta on the other hand is holding it's own!
 
nice experiment bro! lol. i tried the same thing with monti caps. i had red, green and grape chopped up into 1cm sized squares and glued em all over a flat river rock. started becoming the coolest thing ever then it got overrun with monti eatin nudis.
 
There's a slim chance that this will end well, though I suppose anything is possible. Chances are, they will sting/kill one another, or a single coral will dominate, killing the others.
 
My Red Planet has taken over an LPS so far (not sure what it was, bought it for $5), and is currently encrusting over a montipora capricornis, miami orchid, and has just started growing into my green slimer. I plan to frag the miami orchid (5"+ size) if/when it takes over. It has covered about 3" worth of the miami orchid so far.

It is getting close to a spaghetti acro that I have as well - I'd imagine it will take it over as well.
 
nice experiment bro! lol. i tried the same thing with monti caps. i had red, green and grape chopped up into 1cm sized squares and glued em all over a flat river rock. started becoming the coolest thing ever then it got overrun with monti eatin nudis.
Yea i'm gonna try that too, put like 5 or 6 diff together lol.. Sucks about the nudis.
 
I put the nasuta in my tank next to a Oregon tort after 5 months the nasuta took out my tort..:( I had the break the Rock in half and separate them...
Wow that stinks.. yea i learned the hard way with encrusting monti's on rock work trying to burn everything in their path lol
 
There's a slim chance that this will end well, though I suppose anything is possible. Chances are, they will sting/kill one another, or a single coral will dominate, killing the others.
I plan on splitting if one or the other starts getting stung or overtaken..
 

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