Chris' 50G SPS and Zoanthid Dominated Reef.. NEW PICS NOV 15th

[Dez]

Originally Posted by chris88

Thanks for the great compliments. Its definetly growing in well. I have a question for some of you with mature tanks. Do you let the corasl just grow or do you have to constantly frag. I keep getting corals that grow into each other and fight. fragging takes a bit of work and i dont have many people to give the frags to up here.

I wouldn't consider my tank too mature yet, but I definitely have a problem with overgrowth. I used to frag the coral I liked less if they were going to touch each other, but now I've just given up. Like you have said, fragging is a lot of work and it's interesting to see what nature does. Sometimes corals will fight and one will win, then the other coral that has died off will strengthen up and fight back stronger. I have had corals merge and fight and then in the middle create a new species or something like that. I have an orange cap and a green cap that were fighting, and now where they were fighting is a new cap that is green with orange polyps and rim. Interesting indeed. I have been slowly removing whole colonies to allow some colonies to grow extra big. I have a colony that is almost 18" accross now.