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12-15-2010, 03:38 AM
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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.
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12-15-2010, 04:37 AM
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12-15-2010, 04:53 AM
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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
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12-15-2010, 04:56 AM
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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...
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12-15-2010, 05:42 AM
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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.
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12-15-2010, 12:54 PM
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I"ll have to take pictures tonight of my chalice vs. hammer showdown going on in my tank. It's crazy because they are both frag size, and are 4-5" apart. They can sting eachother's bases no problem, i can't believe the chalice has that much reach! Anyways, they look good, and both have been growing great as competition? I'll be moving them apart a bit soon, worried about everything else around them after this though.
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