Why do we keep Euphyllia and Hydnophora?

[christyf5]

LOL, I learned about hydnophora a long time ago. Brad gave me a piece and I swear he was cackling the moment I left. Damned thing stung anything within 8" of it. I ended up either turfing it or passing it on to the next unlucky customer. Never had much problem with euphyllia though, mind you I haven't kept them in years, I never have enough room in the big tank but I have a frogspawn in my nano.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by christyf5

LOL, I learned about hydnophora a long time ago. Brad gave me a piece and I swear he was cackling the moment I left.

I should assume you don't want the frag I mounted today?? It's purdy!!

[MrGoodbytes]

I can't say much about Hydnophora (maybe some day) but I haven't ever had much problem with my wall hammer. It's a really nice coral too (and pretty easy :P). It is fairly isolated though. I have a feeling my little Favia is worse when it comes to aggression.

[whatcaneyedo]

I've never lost an entire colony to my hydnophora or euphyllia... the trick is to not jamb pack every square inch of your tank with coral and leave a little room for them to grow. Some of the tanks I see online make me scratch my head. I recall a 20 gal nano with more specimens in it than I have in my 120gal!

Galaxea and Platygyra are the two problematic ones in my book.

[marie]

Originally Posted by whatcaneyedo

I've never lost an entire colony to my hydnophora or euphyllia... the trick is to not jamb pack every square inch of your tank with coral and leave a little room for them to grow. Some of the tanks I see online make me scratch my head. I recall a 20 gal nano with more specimens in it than I have in my 120gal!

Galaxea and Platygyra are the two problematic ones in my book.

I had a torch that could put out a 12" sweeper (that's 12" more then the normal length of the tentacles) and take out everything in it's path....including me. If I had kept it, I wouldn't be able to put anything else on the one side of my 175g tank

[Jack]

Man out smarts coral by gluing it down.

[MrGoodbytes]

To a certain degree. I've glued down frags that are for all intents solid but have a crab who makes a hobby out of ripping glues frags off rocks. That being said, don't go stuffing corals too closely together, crabs/snails or not.

This reminds me: I need to get some epoxy... lol

[ScubaSteve]

Oh, just you wait until one of your fish learns how to smash frags and colonies right off the rockwork like my clownfish has. Glue changes nothin' in that game. Saves me from having to ever frag anything... or ever have nice big colonies...

[Delphinus]

We keep them because they're pretty, not because they make our lives easier. Back in the day I had a nice SPS tank (were those days real? Or am I imagining them? I can't tell anymore) I had a really nice electric green hydrophora, grew in a shelf growth pattern. Man that thing was electric. But yeah had to keep things well back from it.

Euphyllia .. same story it's purdy! Just frag that sucker and start over. Part of the fun is watching little corals turn into big corals. Watching big corals kill other corals .. turns out it's not as fun. Weird.