Saltfishlover Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 So im about to put some frags on my tank. I've had them for a month on a rack. Got a couple chalices, scans, blastos, and favia. I want to place them where they can grow but also touch as the get bigger. What corals really.need to be solo and way is not a big deal if they are close? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoolander Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 To quote Ian Malcolm "Life finds a way." Some will play nice, others will kill each other, just depends on what gets put next to what. I always google it and see what the specific coral will live next to and what it won't live next to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 17 minutes ago, Saltfishlover said: So im about to put some frags on my tank. I've had them for a month on a rack. Got a couple chalices, scans, blastos, and favia. I want to place them where they can grow but also touch as the get bigger. What corals really.need to be solo and way is not a big deal if they are close? You can typically group the same species together like acan lords (not echinatas) and blastos are similar enough Be carful with Favias and chalices as some can have sweepers that go pretty far . Some chalices that are similar like bubble gum monsters and oregon mummy eye can group together. I also find I can have montis right next to each other. Like Zoolander hinted at its kind of a complex question. Of course most zoas you can put right next to each other with no issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saltfishlover Posted February 15, 2021 Author Share Posted February 15, 2021 What's the best placement for a chalice and scans? I see them on the bottomed of a lot of tanks. I'm trying to get these all placed to fill in a 90 gal. Don't really want everything on the bottom. I guess I can not glue the plugs and go from there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 3 minutes ago, Saltfishlover said: What's the best placement for a chalice and scans? I see them on the bottomed of a lot of tanks. I'm trying to get these all placed to fill in a 90 gal. Don't really want everything on the bottom. I guess I can not glue the plugs and go from there Depends on what your par is. They usually like lower lighting particularly chalices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuncrestReef Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 Some corals will grow faster than others, and a lot of times it's difficult to predict which ones will take off while others grow slowly. As others mentioned above, beware of corals with long sweeper tentacles which can reach 5 to 10 inches. I quickly populated my 4 foot tank with over 100 corals in a 1 year period. I placed most of them about 2"-4" apart, but realized about a year later that I didn't leave enough room for growth, and a lot of them took over. Here's the tank in Dec 2018: and here it was in Feb 2020, just 14 months later: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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