Will encrusting months affect acros?

[Angryminer_07]

I have a bunch of acros at the top of my aquascape that are doing well. I recently purchased some encrusting montipora. I’m trying to find a money for the frags and I’m wondering if placement too close to an Acro frag is ok or not. Will they affect the bases or kill them? Please help a monti newbie out!

I have both a Sunset and green eyed wombat montipora.

 

[ndrwater]

Depending on which Monti, and which Acropora, they can definitely fight. In my experience, the Monti usually wins...
If it looks like the Monti is going to overrun your Acros, I'd move the Acros sooner than later

 

[Sierra_Bravo]

I have a bunch of acros at the top of my aquascape that are doing well. I recently purchased some encrusting montipora. I’m trying to find a money for the frags and I’m wondering if placement too close to an Acro frag is ok or not. Will they affect the bases or kill them? Please help a monti newbie out!

I have both a Sunset and green eyed wombat montipora.

Acros usually win out vs montis but I would advise placing the monti on a rock that you can move rather than directly on a rock that your acros are attached to. Montis will generally going to grow much faster than acros and it becomes a problem when they take over a lot of real estate. Nearly impossible to remove an encrusted monti.

 

[Sierra_Bravo]

In my experience, the Monti usually wins...

Mine has been the opposite. Depends on species as you mentioned, I suppose.

 

[tdileo]

In my experience, when the encrusting monti and acros encrusted based meet you’ll just see a stringy white mess for a few days. Then it goes away and both stop growing in that direction. Once every few months, mine usually fire back up but it comes out to the same outcome. However in the long run, the acro will probably win because as it branches it shades out the monti.