"Weed" tank or just more work?

Nanorock1970 · Jul 1, 2020

Tank update...getting lots of softies that I see lots of negative nellies....Yup I got a Kenya tree, red discomia shroom, green ricordea, blue striped shroom, Blue spotted Red Mushroom (superman) GSP I put on a rock island...Some Zoas. I feel the negative nellies don't "work" on their tanks and don't frag or cleanup soon enough that the sofies overrun the tank. Would you agree or am I in for a tank of overgrowth mess?

Johniejumbo · Jul 1, 2020

I don’t have anything bad to say about any of those corals. Fast growth rate can be an issue but if you spend the time grooming the tank it won’t be a big problem. That said. These things can sneak up on you and sometime removal of excess growth can accidentally spread a coral somewhere you may not want it to be. Resulting in more work later. You do you. Forget the negative nellies.

SteveG_inDC · Jul 1, 2020

Go for it! It may be more work to prune your garden, so to speak, but if you stay on top of it you could have a beautiful softy tank. I love GSPs but they are really hard to remove once they get somewhere unwanted.

JumboShrimp · Jul 1, 2020

Softie tanks are great— can be very satisfying, and many have that nice ‘sway’ in the water flow. Leathers, in particular, are under appreciated!

Nanorock1970 · Jul 1, 2020

SteveG_inDC said:
Go for it! It may be more work to prune your garden, so to speak, but if you stay on top of it you could have a beautiful softy tank. I love GSPs but they are really hard to remove once they get somewhere unwanted.

I am hoping my little rock island will keep it at bay....Not really wanting to have it all over my tank....
Am I mostly safe with the island or does it get around the tank other then slowly spreading out?

SteveG_inDC · Jul 1, 2020

Nanorock1970 said:
I am hoping my little rock island will keep it at bay....Not really wanting to have it all over my tank....
Am I mostly safe with the island or does it get around the tank other then slowly spreading out?

I don't know but I have the same question. I once had GSPs on my glass cleaning magnet and that didn't spread. Forced me to use it a lot to keep it moving.

Katrina71 · Jul 1, 2020

They are all beautiful. The weeds are my favorites.

Biglew11 · Jul 1, 2020

i've had gsp for about 2 years now on a rock island. it's just now started to spread to the substrate, was very easy to trim back to the rock. as long as you don't let that rock touch anything else you should be good.

fish farmer · Jul 1, 2020

I have a softy dominant tank, most of the mushrooms were confined to one side. They are now slowly creeping up the other side and sometimes I'll find a small shroom nested in an overhang which is hard to reach. My rock is mostly attached so I have to try and hit them with aiptasia killing products. I rarely had problems with my colt coral and would snip that back, but recently it has started to bud off as well and I find that poking up in hard to reach places.

Fast growers are fine but when you want a nicer colored zoa to take over, the bland one moves quicker.