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Old 02-22-2013, 02:47 AM
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Originally Posted by FragIt Dan View Post
I don't trim dead sections unless they start growing hairy algae on them. The algae will stop the coral from being able to grow. If that is happening I trim down to just above, or at the live tissue. If not, the I find the corals grow back faster if you can leave the old skeleton there.
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+1 I wouldn't worry about it unless something nasty starts to grow on the skeleton. On SPS pieces, I cut off anything dead because they seem particularly susceptible to nasty algae species making the problem worse, but on those LPS pieces, if nothing nasty like hair algae starts go grow, I'd say the less they're disturbed the better.
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