Will Neon Green Paly's hurt other coral?

[fauxproreefer]

So I was dumb when I first started my reef and introduced these guys to my tank. Should I worry about placing coral on the same rock? Thoughts? Ideas? This picture is a little old so don't mind the diatom outbreaks in the sand

 

[Coralreefer1]

Some Palythoas and Zoanthids are bigger than others. Because of this, smaller ones will be outcompeted for space and light causing them to be cast out by the more successful ones. One way of avoiding this is to place frags or colonies on separate pieces of live rock. This way you reduce the encroachment of certain species that you might not want to choke out.

 

[fauxproreefer]

Unfortunately they are already on a big rock to which I would like to add additional pieces. Specifically a Cyphastrea (which are fast growers too). Will the Paly's hard said coral?

 

[Coralreefer1]

The Paly’s will overtake Cyphastrea much in the same way Xenia, Star Polyps and Anthelia would.

 

[doodledreads]

You could try sourrounding with an more aggressive coral to check it's spread, a favia, echinata etc? I am not sure if these palys are stronger though. Trail and error may be?

Thats what I did with some green zoas I had, I just placed frags on their mat and the new corals are slowly encroaching and killing the zoas.

 

[fauxproreefer]

I actually just bought an Echinata from the live coral sale so I will try it out!

 

[fauxproreefer]

The Paly’s will overtake Cyphastrea much in the same way Xenia, Star Polyps and Anthelia would.

I just bought an Echinata which seems more capable of defending itself.

 

[Bunnee911]

I just took a rock out covered in that paly. It lasted 3 weeks in fresh water. In the sun. Even grew mosquitoes. I finally took it out of the bucket and let them air dry for another week. Darn things.

 

[fauxproreefer]

I just took a rock out covered in that paly. It lasted 3 weeks in fresh water. In the sun. Even grew mosquitoes. I finally took it out of the bucket and let them air dry for another week. Darn things.

I hear ya. I am trying to stop the problem before it gets to bad. If I only knew then what I knew now lol

 

[fauxproreefer]

I just took a rock out covered in that paly. It lasted 3 weeks in fresh water. In the sun. Even grew mosquitoes. I finally took it out of the bucket and let them air dry for another week. Darn things.

I hear ya. I am trying to stop the problem before it gets to bad. If I only knew then what I knew now lol

 

[doodledreads]

Torches and Galaxea would be good options for aggressive corals as well.

 

[AquaRaider44]

It really depends on the coral. I have seen Cyphastrea grow up the stems of some zoas and choke them out but it will depend on the paly or zoa and the Cyphastrea.

 

[Leslie Tabor]

I like them, you can always send them to me!

 

[blasterman]

They look like green implosions, but I cant see close enough. Green implosions have really fine radial stripes. See link.

Green implosions don't have paly toxin and don't engage in chemical warfare, but they will smother other corals and will randomly sprout in other areas of your tank. I would not put anything else on the rock unless it can fight back like a galaxy coral. I've had green implosions literally attach themselves to the stalks of larger palys like gobstoppers or stalks of xenia with no ill effects to either coral. They actively eat food dropped on them like purple deaths and this will greatly accelerate their growth.

They can be kept in check like aiptasia; basically injecting them vinegar.

They will eat xenia if a xenia stalk blows on top of them via water current. Rather amusing to watch given both are considered pests.

What is this looking like Zoas thing?

I have had this guy in my tank for a while (years). When I got it it had green body with white stripes. However, due to the low T5 light in my previous tank, the white color stripe was kind of gone. I don't know if it is an anemone type but recently I discovered it does swallow pellets . I...

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[Aquanautical]

I had this same problem with the same palys and no coral was ever able to kill them, pavona, platygyra, other agressive corals. they would close up from a sweeper sting for a few days then open like nothing ever happened, I ended up just trading the rock. I swear those toxic green palys are indestructible

 

[blasterman]

They're pretty tough and not bad looking...if they stayed in one spot...which they wont. The attached picture is from a 10 gallon tank I had some years ago, and the green implosions started on the right side as hitch hikers. The mass of gobstoppers in the middle had enough density to stop them, but then the green implosions started popping up in random parts of the tank.

Side story, but I had so many gobstoppers I was giving away 10 head frags because they were growing like xenia. I sold the tank looking for a different challenge and now for some weird reason gobstoppers are in demand and getting high prices again.