drock59 Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 What do you do when corals are getting too close to each other and killing one another? I have several pieces that are trying to kill each other off and I am looking for ideas. The culprits seems to be encrusting corals and efflo's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltfinsax Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Run carbon and try to lay something like rock between them to grown on. Nice problem to have isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grassi Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 Sometimes they give up and they will grow together. Otherwise you have to try to separate them somehow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drock59 Posted September 28, 2010 Author Share Posted September 28, 2010 Seperating them is the problem. One is encrusting and it grows over every thing. Bright purple and encrusting. Cant remember the name. I was thinking of just taking the big colonies off and bleaching the rock that the purple stuff is growing on. The efflo can be kept back by just breaking off pieces. I thought about laying down a barrier of super glue, but that is only temporary. (scratch) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reefnjunkie Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 I feel your pain-and short of placing something on the rock for them to encrust on and then removing that "something" there is not really anything you can do but watch and see who wins. Sadly in my experiance the cheap coral wins- I'm an SPS guy so I am cheering on the Efflo!!! DIE monti Die (or at least the part thats touching) My undata won against the Purple Haze and my Pink Lemonade won against my rainbow monti. The good thing (perhaps) is you can trim back the efflo and sell a frag or two- Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandinga Posted September 28, 2010 Share Posted September 28, 2010 frag if you can, otherwise just watch and root for your favorite. Encrusters are some of the coolest, but man....they can take alot of space over time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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