who has coral touching coral and what was the outcome?

[Monster00101]

I am curious to see what corals people have that r touching in there tanks. What corals and what if any problems?

[Monster00101]

Sorry for bad pic. Dark time and its on my phone.

[Shore Tang]

i have had mushrooms touching different species of mushrooms. mushrooms touching nepthea, xenia, clove polyps. zoas touching zoas. all of these with no issues. then on the other side i have seen different leather corals grow together. i have also seen montipora grow together. by this i mean actually become one. but a lot of corals will compete for space and kill one another. i have an encrusting horn that devastates anything that bumps it including my pink flower pot with yellow centers. tragic. 100 bucks down the drain. best thing is to give corals enough space and trim accordingly. glue/rubberband those frag pieces to plugs and use them for trade or sale. local fish stores and hobbyists alike will be interested in your tank raised coral. keep in mind that some corals grow in mat form and can grow over other corals and choke them out of light and nutrients. Taller corals can shade smaller ones and dominate sections of your reef. use a common sense approach and learn how your corals grow and try to plan accordingly. Also remember that some different species of coral react differently to other species of coral. some coral will devastate in minutes or hours. some take days to weeks. best to give them room to grow. when they do start to invade - trim.

[Monster00101]

Originally Posted by Shore Tang

i have had mushrooms touching different species of mushrooms. mushrooms touching nepthea, xenia, clove polyps. zoas touching zoas. all of these with no issues. then on the other side i have seen different leather corals grow together. i have also seen montipora grow together. by this i mean actually become one. but a lot of corals will compete for space and kill one another. i have an encrusting horn that devastates anything that bumps it including my pink flower pot with yellow centers. tragic. 100 bucks down the drain. best thing is to give corals enough space and trim accordingly. glue/rubberband those frag pieces to plugs and use them for trade or sale. local fish stores and hobbyists alike will be interested in your tank raised coral. keep in mind that some corals grow in mat form and can grow over other corals and choke them out of light and nutrients. Taller corals can shade smaller ones and dominate sections of your reef. use a common sense approach and learn how your corals grow and try to plan accordingly. Also remember that some different species of coral react differently to other species of coral. some coral will devastate in minutes or hours. some take days to weeks. best to give them room to grow. when they do start to invade - trim.

That is tragic. Sounds like a good find. I keep distance between most but I like the look when colonies of zoas grow together. I seen a guy who had a frogspawn and a hammer so close together the tentacles when messed together it looks cool and he has had them like that for a year or so.

[Frick-n-Frags]

most softies wont fight with other softies. most stonies will fight with anything else

that's the basic rule of thumb. then there are a boatload of exceptions

[Kyle555]

I have a toadstool and yellow polyps touching...dont seem to bother eachother, ...same with a torch and gsp's

[Bongo Shrimp]

I have a tequila sunrise monti encroaching on my japonica cyphastrea and they fight at the edge of the growth. The cyphastrea is winning, I think. also, my tyree green toad stool fell over a little and touched my platygyra brain and the brain sent out stingers. I fixed it though and now all is well with that.

[rogersb]

I have had sps kill each other, colonial palys just about kill sps, and currently I am using a large frogspawn to keep zoas from running down my tank. I find some things won't matter at all though, like my elegance. It does no harm to anything it touches. The most wussy coral ever.

[Monster00101]

So is there some kind of compatibility chart out there? Cause I know that a lot of aggressive coral will tolerate certain coral. It would b nice to know what can tolerate what.

[Monster00101]

if not I will make one and post it with a bit of help from everyone.

[Monster00101]

Originally Posted by rogersb

I have had sps kill each other, colonial palys just about kill sps, and currently I am using a large frogspawn to keep zoas from running down my tank. I find some things won't matter at all though, like my elegance. It does no harm to anything it touches. The most wussy coral ever.

For research sake what exactly did it come into contact with?