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View Poll Results: What would you do with the LPS Colonies
Leave them right where they are … it looks great 13 72.22%
Remove them from the tank … they're distracting 2 11.11%
Remove them from the rock … but keep them in the tank 3 16.67%
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Old 01-27-2014, 02:06 AM
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If I was in your shoes, I'd frag a bit from each one and find a spot for them elsewhere - selling the majority of them
Then I'd fill the old spots with SPS
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Old 01-27-2014, 02:21 AM
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I have large LPS taking room up in the tank, but they get to stay. I have to accept that one day there is no more room for SPS and live with it. Most non reefing people that see the tank like the LPS a lot more too
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I think a few large, fully grown out LPS pieces can really complete the look of a tank. If you were to remove them I think you'd be shocked at how empty your tank would suddenly look, and it would stay that way for months while something else grew in.

If you want to see how you feel about it, you can always just put those guys in a bucket for a while then stand back and look at your tank. If you feel like that creates too much a hole, there's nothing stopping you from putting some or all of them back.

The only caution I would give would be that you know how big these things can get and how much volume their tentacles occupy at this size now. If you frag them so you've got much smaller specimens in their place then load up the now emptied space with SPS, you're only a few months away from those LPS posing a real threat to what you've added in their place.

My euphyllia's that have grown up to close to that size are in the process of destroying encrusted acros and montis that I can't move out of their way.
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Old 01-27-2014, 03:13 AM
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I have large LPS taking room up in the tank, but they get to stay. I have to accept that one day there is no more room for SPS and live with it. Most non reefing people that see the tank like the LPS a lot more too
This is one thing I've noticed as well. While I love SPS and think they're the most beautiful and challenging in all of reef keeping, people love the sway and size of the LPS corals. The torch in my tank gets the most attention by non-aquarium folk
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Old 01-27-2014, 03:28 AM
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Figured out how to embed larger photo's … This should help to see things a little better.

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You got to get rid of those blastos just don't fit in at all,

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I personally like the Lps added a bunch of higher end ones oranges and golds, great for low light area of tank, there great too they are great tell tale signs early of something not right vs a white stick.
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Old 01-27-2014, 03:49 AM
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You got to get rid of those blastos just don't fit in at all,

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I personally like the Lps added a bunch of higher end ones oranges and golds, great for low light area of tank, there great too they are great tell tale signs early of something not right vs a white stick.
lol funny you mention that … I am thinking of moving the blasto's down to the sand bed and splitting the colony into two or three frags. I find that these blasto's grow crazy fast, until they form a sphere … then they slow right down.

The colony started as a small frag, only 3 or 4 heads. It grew really fast and then slowed right down when it was a perfect sphere. Now it just slowly plumps itself up.

Its just like the green candy cane at the bottom centre of the photo. It started as 5 heads and grew incredibly fast … until it fill out all of its space … now it doesn't do much of anything in terms of growth. I'm thinking of splitting it as well just to get a bit more growth out of it.
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Old 01-27-2014, 04:24 AM
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If anything maybe move the frogspawn at the top right to the bottom left at the base of the rock to fill in the open space & send me the torch
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