The wow of nature's agression

Reef keeper · Jul 15, 2011

i have a war coral and didnt relive that the sweeper's got 6-10" long and well battled my acanstrea and won, i have a wat i believe to be a echinata or acanstrea bowerbanki and well it killed half my tricolor acro colony! it was kinda cool to see the natuaral fury of them but then again it was my favorite acan that lost!

revhtree · Jul 24, 2011

I just found out the same thing! Has a war coral on one end of a frag rack and a nice sunset fungia on the other end and they baby reached almost 12" and stung half of it to death! It is making a recovery though.

returnofsid · Jul 28, 2011

Here's a couple examples, from my 200DD.

Stylophora EATING the flesh of a Montipora digitata

Bubble Coral and Hammer Coral, locked in battle.

revhtree · Jul 28, 2011

Cool pics!

Russellaqua · Jul 28, 2011

revhtree said:
Cool pics!

+1 That's a very happy looking Stylophora too.

bige · Jul 28, 2011

That is cool. Sorry for loss. You think it would kill gsp or xenia? Then you could market it and make some money.

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

very cool pics! u know its kinda sad to lose a piece to warfare but then its also kinda cool cause u see wat happens in the wild and means ur frags have grown in well or u just have 2 many frags close together!

lps1212 · Jul 28, 2011

Yea I have an australian lobo with tentacles that reach an easy 6 to 8 inches I've heard that Vivids Riddler Chalice has long tentacles any other chalices people know about that do the same

swannyson7 · Jul 28, 2011

I used to have a colony of galaxea that would regularly extend its sweepers 6-8" to sting nearby corals. After it stung a few other corals I quickly gave it away....

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

lol yeah im about to give this echinata and war favia!

swannyson7 · Jul 28, 2011

I've often woken up to find a web of death over various corals from acan echinatas. They seem to have a very potent sting and don't often lose, so I'm surprised that it lost to a favia!

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

yeah lol one time my rainbow monti was white like an inch in to the colony and nothing was near it and i looked closer and it was eating itself then next day it was fine! yeah i guess i have an excuse to upgrade! lol

swannyson7 · Jul 28, 2011

Reef keeper said:
yeah i guess i have an excuse to upgrade! lol

And there's the silver lining! :wink:

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

lol looking into a 180 weird dimensions though
51" legth
29" width
28" deep

swannyson7 · Jul 28, 2011

That's a deep tank that would be a bear for ligthing, but other than that it's a pretty sweet footprint!

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

Yeah it looks cool and its drilled and already drilled for a closed loop im hoping i can get it cause right now im so crowded everything is fighting! U think a 6 bulb nova extreme frixture wat elso should i add to it?

swannyson7 · Jul 28, 2011

With a 29" width, I'd suspect that you'll need to add quite a few more bulbs if you're keeping SPS. Maybe look into grabbing a second 48" 6 bulb fixture and stacking one in front of the other? If you rose a 6 bulb fixture high enough to get adequate spread on a footprint that large, your PAR would probably be inadeqaute for SPS except for at the very top of the tank

Reef keeper · Jul 28, 2011

I want it to be sps dominant so i guess ill look for another light fixture! Thanks btw

Hyprviperx · Jul 28, 2011

i had a tiny 1/2"x1/2" frag of galaxia and the sweeper tentacles reached almost 4 inches it was trying to reach the hammer coral and the hammer had no defense since it was down stream from the galaxia