Most Invasive Corals In Your Tank?

[muzikalmatt]

So everyone knows about GSP, xenia, kenya trees, cloves and certain other corals being highly invasive, but what are the most invasive/prolific corals in your tank?

For me it's gorilla nipple zoas, Texas trash palys, and green hairy mushrooms (rhodactis).

I'm sure some of the SPS gurus have some they might consider "invasive" as well. I'd love to hear what yours are!

 

[Rmckoy]

So everyone knows about GSP, xenia, kenya trees, cloves and certain other corals being highly invasive, but what are the most invasive/prolific corals in your tank?

For me it's gorilla nipple zoas, Texas trash palys, and green hairy mushrooms (rhodactis).

I'm sure some of the SPS gurus have some they might consider "invasive" as well. I'd love to hear what yours are!

Pocilipora , ( even thought I can’t find any around here )

 

[happyhourhero]

Rainbow monti in mine. I swore off ugly palys and mushrooms in my last build. Never again.

 

[Rmckoy]

Rainbow monti in mine. I swore off ugly palys and mushrooms in my last build. Never again.

Agree with mushrooms .
never again !

 

[PeterC99]

Firework Cloves! They are taking over!

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Pocilipora , ( even thought I can’t find any around here )

Yep! That's the one I always think of first because it caught me by surprise a few years back when it spawned EVERYWHERE in my tank!

 

[Rmckoy]

Yep! That's the one I always think of first because it caught me by surprise a few years back when it spawned EVERYWHERE in my tank!

In a old tank .
I had the same thing happen but didn’t mind it at all .
I’ve been looking for them for over a year .
they seam to have come harder to find .
No one wants them anymore .

Maybe one day rainbow splice or Walt Disney will be considered pests .

 

[Spare time]

I have no clue what to do with all of the spongegodes I have. No one wants it

 

[Auquanut]

Stylophora!! A very beautiful coral. Grows like crazy and provides plenty of hidey holes and swim throughs. If you let it grow too thick, you can't cut it with bone cutters or dynamite. Still trying to figure out how I'm going to thin it out without completely tearing up my aquascape and completely upsetting the balance of the tank.

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Although i do have procillapora growing in a few places i dont mind it cause its easy to get rid of. I do have a few montis that i have to trim back almost weekly. BUT I HAVE THESE DARN UGLY GREY PALYS GROWING EVERWHERE. Cant kill them. I manually remove all the ones i can as often as possible, hit the rest with aiptasia killer and scrub the rock with a wire brush. They all come back almost 100% within 3 weeks. Its honestly mind blowing. They came in on the side of a wild acropora colony i got a few years ago, didnt think anything of it. And boy i regret not removing asap all the time. The colony of them didnt get huge but i started seeing a head pop up here, then over there, and then everywhere :mad:

 

[Sshannon]

Reverse superman monti for me. I made the mistake of moving it around the tank several times before its final resting spot. Now I have 4 separate colonies taking over my rock work

 

[Hermie]

green mushrooms (rhodactus) and GSP

 

[EakTheFreak]

Green Bay Packers Zoa’s for me!

 

[jassermd]

Red mushrooms... They are everywhere and even grow in caves with no light. How is that even possible?
And LFS are selling them for $75 per frag... I have a full retirement package in my tank...

 

[jfoahs04]

Green hairy mushrooms for me.

 

[X-37B]

Green disco mushroons. They release and float around your system and sting or kill anything they touch. I remove 5-6 every week.
Elkhorn monti. It was a true weed. Grew very fast and I removed it from the tank.
Same with an orange monti cap. It grew so fast I ended up removing as much as I could.

Now my green slimer is becoming invasive.

 

[zheka757]

Aiptasia counts? lol

 

[X-37B]

Aiptasia counts? lol

Of course! I have one thats in the back of my rock work that could host a clownfish. Its over 3" dia easily, lol.

 

[Nano sapiens]

#1 nemesis in my system was the Molten Lava Leptoseris (aka 'The Blue-Eyed Devil of Death'). For a Lepto, it punches well above it's weight taking out literally everything it ever came into contact with (never saw sweepers on this one, just had the ability to shut down any other coral's defenses with chemicals). I had to physically scrape & epoxy patch a good sized area multiple times to finally exterminate it. Never give this coral higher light as it can turn nasty!

 

[ZoWhat]

The most invasion thing in my tank are:
MY HANDS