chimera Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Here's an interesting subject, post up "corals wars!" In other words, if you have seen two corals growing next to each other and touching (or nearly touching), who wins? (or maybe it's a draw?) This might also help those who are looking to position their new corals (or where not to place them!!!) My (small) findings so far: Green star polyps vs Euphyillia (hammer) = GSP wins Monti Capricornis (brown) vs Monti Digitata = Cap wins Euphyillia (frogspawn) vs Blue tipped Staghorn = Frogspawn wins Blue tipped Staghorn vs Pink millepora = Stag wins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Galaxia vs. Acropora & Montipora & Mushroom - Galaxia Win! Frogspwan vs. Acropora & Montipora - Frogspawn Win! Mushrooms vs. Acropora and Montipora - Mushrooms Win! Hynophora vs. Acropora - Hynophora Wins! Hynophora vs. Montipora Digitata - Montipora Digitata Wins! Euphillia vs. all - Euphillia Wins! Pie vs. Aipstasia - Aipstasia Wins! Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Holiday Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Euphillia kicks a mean punch it took me hours to get over it My torch coral seems to kill anything it touchs same with the frogspan, basically LPS corals seem to have more dominance over the rest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 In the past I had a period when periodically I would find bald patches on some corals in the mornings. It varied from coral to coral and from location to location. It turned out the problem was a Merulina and a Porites slugging it out, as after I seperated them, the problem stopped. Neither of the two combatants were suffering at all except for the immediate area of contact and it was not at all clear which one was winning. I am beginning to suspect that the occasional, what I have assumed to be bite marks from fish, patch I notice these days may be the same thing recurring. This time i am suspecting a Merulina and an Acro but note the common factor. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted February 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Euphillia vs. all - Euphillia Wins! not quite! green star polyps grew over my euphyllia and suffocated 2 branches! i pulled heaps of it out last night, grows like a bloody weed. worse than xenia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scholesy Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Send that weed on the next train to wellie (the green polyps, that is). LOL. I have a soft coral, still in the process of identifying it, that will eventually force back maroon mushrooms. Galaxea and Hydno like to "have their space" in my tank ha ha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chimera Posted February 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 well if anyone is driving or flying down to wellies, more than welcome to come pick up some frags and drop them off i was throwing frags of green star polyps and montipora off my deck last night. i also broke off and put a decent size cap of monti in my fuge coz it was blocking light to many other frags (not to mention reducing flow!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Cool time lapse of two corals facing off (22 MB quicktime) http://www.nzreefs.com/coralwar2.mov (May need a up to date version of quicktime, it uses H.264 compression.) Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petplanet Posted February 22, 2006 Report Share Posted February 22, 2006 Don't forget the old mushrooms. I have used them to stop my long tentacle anemone stinging corals by fencing it in with them. It won't spread over the top of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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