sps vs sps

[cdub]

So I had a city red milli colony that was slowly growing toward my blue digi colony. After about a month the milli started to slowly overtake the digi. I figured that it would slowly engulf it so I cut some large frags of the digi to reposition. Well I came home yesterday and it looks like the digi rtn'ed and sent some sort of chemical out so my large city red milli colony is now rtning from the edge closest to the digi. Last night I cut the milli up to avoid loosing it all, but my question is what should I have done to prevent this. I guess eventually all sps will grow enough to have this problem, so what does everyone else do?

 

[mockery]

Search for future interest. Jin made a great thread about coral interactions. Everything from soft corals to anemones to sps to lps. Pretty interesting thread.

 

[mojo]

Frag them before they get too close.

 

[glxtrix]

Quick note, millis will kill just about anything....and in most cases, even ward off nems. But as Mockery said, search for that post, it;s very good.

 

[rbredding]

I don't know what
rtn'd
rtning

mean..

 

[mojo]

RTN = Rapid Tissue Necrosis
STN = Slow Tissue Necrosis

 

[cdub]

I had read his post awhile back, I just didn't know what the best way to combat it was. so in summary frag them before they get wiped out.

 

[mojo]

Yeah - there's really no other way around it. You can try to plan ahead, accounting for growth patterns, but it's best to plan to prune before they get too close. Yes, you'll be cutting your corals smaller, but it's better than starting a chain reaction of losing the entire colony...

 

[cdub]

Trimming the branches isn't an issue, this city red milli had spread more than I could have predicted on the rock and I guess in hindsight I could have taken a dremel to the rock and trenched out a "fireline"

 

[cdub]

The encrusting bases grew into each other with mine. So I would avoid this of I were you. I lost 50% of my larger than a softball colony before it was all over with.

 

[mojo]

Akopley;466105 wrote: I have quite a few colonies in close proximity, is this going to be an issue? I have an acro that is very close to a pink birdsnest and another birdnest that is very close to a monti colony. They all seem fine and have been like this for awhile.

Different species will have varying levels of aggressiveness towards other corals. Sometimes the only way to know is to just see what happens, although you risk losing the coral. Some corals grow in to each other just fine, and some RTN within days.

Milli's almost always win.

Hydnophora always wins....

 

[cdub]

Hydnaphora=evil