Which SPS would you not put in your tank again?

[scoobs]

So I recently learned Rainbow Pocci is a prolific propagator. When conditions are good they spawn and produce many little colonies all over your tank. It also apparently packs a good sting, if situated next to other corals. Thus eventually leading to a Rainbow Pocci dominated tank if left unchecked.

This was news to me, so as I was transplanting the mother colony and the dozens of baby colonies I could siphon up to another tank, I was thinking, what other sps should I be weary of?

 

[drawman]

You hit in on the head for me. It is the only SPS I can think of that I won't add.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Plating and encrusting montis.
The Xenia of sps.

Accidental frag took off. Look between the piorities. It's all over that Rockne the back side.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Porities I believe will spread sexually thru the tank, popping up everywhere. I have a green pocci frag in my frag tank right now waiting on my 35 to finish cycling. I haven't seen any spreading... I've had porities hitch hike in on a snail shell and frag plug. The one on the snail didn't make it long and I removed the one on the frag plug.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Porities I believe will spread sexually thru the tank, popping up everywhere. I have a green pocci frag in my frag tank right now waiting on my 35 to finish cycling. I haven't seen any spreading... I've had porities hitch hike in on a snail shell and frag plug. The one on the snail didn't make it long and I removed the one on the frag plug.

I wish those two in the pic would spread.

 

[SashimiTurtle]

Plating and encrusting montis.
The Xenia of sps.

Accidental frag took off. Look between the piorities. It's all over that Rockne the back side.

Nice fan worms in that porities

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Nice fan worms in that porities

Thx!

 

[Mirkus]

Encrusting montis..... they grow everywhere fast and seem to win about 50% of time in battle.

 

[Bpb]

Montipora spongodes. Impossible to kill. I can smother it in pure kalk paste for half an hour and within a week it looks like nothing happened

 

[Coronus]

I have a $25 sunset monti mowing down a huge Fox Flame colony currently. Anything encrusting is bad IMO.
next would be Montipora Confusa. Funny thing is that 10 years ago I would have given my left eye to just grow any sps Coral. I was dying to grow it. So truthfully, it’s a good problem to have!

 

[scchase]

Monitpora hispida all the brown branching was monti, worse than any encruster I have ever had because at least I can isolate them on boulders on the bottom

 

[Big E]

Montis-- caps, encrusting, digitata, ect. Pocci, Seriatopora(bird nests), stylos, setosa, hydnophora, pavonas
All of the above become space eaters(weeds) and/or pests. It becomes hard to give frags away locally because everybody has them.

There are some encrusting montis that may be slower growers or very pretty/rare that may be worth keeping on isolated rocks.

Acroporas--- Some fast growers can become weeds, so choose wisely.

 

[jda]

All MBP&S except for Leng Sy Cap. No green & blue slimer or Miami Orchid - just grow too fast and take over.

 

[Daniel Waters]

Interesting thread! I'm getting into SPS more and more, so this is all interesting information! I have a green slimer, which several people mentioned as being a fast grower. I realize with encrusting montis how they can be a pain, but aren't branching acros pretty easy to deal with growth? Just go in and snip some branches, or is it more involved than that?

 

[jda]

Yes, you can just snip them, but when nobody wants them after a while and you just have to throw them away, I feel bad.

 

[biecacka]

Snip themand pull them out of the tank. Once they die, they can go back in your calcium reactor.

Corey

 

[Acro maniac]

Montipora spongodes. Impossible to kill. I can smother it in pure kalk paste for half an hour and within a week it looks like nothing happened

Ora Red planet acro beats it. I have an orange cap and spongodas both grew up to the base of the red planet and both get burnt recess and the rp takes the space

 

[bpinkstaff]

Navarcus in a reef tank?

 

[Bpb]

Oddly for me green slimer has been a real slow grower. Everything else has a respectable pace. Even the tort and efflo. Green slimer just doesn’t grow or encrust. Just sits there for lik 6 months now. Hasn’t grown a single cm

 

[CastAway]

Staghorns can be invasive as well. Month-caps and birds nest are the bane of my tank. Anemones too.