SPS Fight!

specialk · Nov 21, 2017

So I have a sweet blue sps (honestly I forgot the name of it, it has been a few months) that is doing great finally ... BUT I have another SPS (once again, forgot the name as well of the bad one) that gorws like a weed and it is not over taking the blue sps and the frag plug glue and killing it ... it also is starting to fight with my $500 blue tabbing efflo ... I am worried about it taking over that onbe as well.

As you can see here, I yanked the plug for the one and have since moved it away... BUT I am worried it may keep growing over the plug and over take the blue one I want.

1. So how to I kill this off? I was thinking hitting the bad sps with some super glue? Eye dropper with peroxide? How water?

2. Also ... what about that efflo where it is not as easy. How do I get in there in the middle of those 2 and get rid of the weed sps?? as I want that efflo to keep growing...

Pics to follow ...

specialk · Nov 21, 2017

Scorpius · Nov 21, 2017

I bought a little tool kit from Menards with all sorts of different razor blades in it. It has a handle the size of a pen and I can interchange the blades. The kit has one particular blade I love to use to break up encrusting Acropora from nuking other Acropora.

This is what you want. You'll thank me later.
https://www.menards.com/main/tools-...422-c-9123.htm?tid=6056370521808425716&ipos=1

specialk · Nov 22, 2017

Scorpius said:
I bought a little tool kit from Menards with all sorts of different razor blades in it. It has a handle the size of a pen and I can interchange the blades. The kit has one particular blade I love to use to break up encrusting Acropora from nuking other Acropora.

This is what you want. You'll thank me later.
https://www.menards.com/main/tools-...422-c-9123.htm?tid=6056370521808425716&ipos=1

Perfect!!

Now the 2 acros are fully encrusting on to the rock ... so what do you do just cut the acro (the bad one) away from the rock? Because I am not going to be able to get thru the rock without destroying stuff. And if I just scrape it away I am sure this one will grow right back in no time

Scorpius · Nov 22, 2017

specialk said:
Perfect!!

Now the 2 acros are fully encrusting on to the rock ... so what do you do just cut the acro (the bad one) away from the rock? Because I am not going to be able to get thru the rock without destroying stuff. And if I just scrape it away I am sure this one will grow right back in no time

It'll grow back, but at least you'll be able to keep things at bay. I put coral too close together so I have to prune things to keep my garden happy. lol

instareefer · Nov 22, 2017

You can also use epoxy putty. Just press between the corals. When they grow on it too far you can remove it, sell it or give it away.

specialk · Nov 22, 2017

instareefer said:
You can also use epoxy putty. Just press between the corals. When they grow on it too far you can remove it, sell it or give it away.

Ahh ok ... like any type of reef putty?

I was gonna say, is there anything to do to stop it permanantly but that is sort of a dumb question

acro-ed · Nov 22, 2017

I would just leave them be. I have plenty of acros that are fighting. Where one starts to lose a battle it usually encrusts or branches out somewhere else. For example, once my ASD mille ran into my red robin you could see a white line where the fight was taking place, but shortly thereafter the mille started to encrust further on the other side where it hadn't previously spread to.

The only way to stop this permanently is to give each coral as much real estate as it could ever possibly need, which effectively means one coral per rock. Since that doesn't make sense for me I just let them battle it out. If one were to spread very rapidly over the other I would clip off the healthy portion and remount somewhere else.