AAAHHHHH the coral bug bit me. Help me place my frags!!

[bamf25]

Ok, after letting my tank mature about 6 months, I suddenly got the bug to place mutliple peices of coral in my tank. Yes, I went from 1 piece of pitty coral from a local reefer to have 12 pieces in my tank in two weeks!!! The majority is sitting on my sandbed acclimating to my tank. All corals are more or less fully open, and look healthy. I need to know the best places to put everything. I have 120g DT with a diy led array over it., two 3/4 inch sea swirls giving nice water movement, and 2 1400 gph powerheads more or less at either side of the tank. It looks like this (tank is a few months older now).




This is the corals I now have.
1. Plate monti orange -- 7 inch piece
2. Acan -- 4 heads, 1 inch
3. Green Star Polyp -- 2 inch piece
4. Zoas -- 2 inch piece
5. Purple mushrooms -- 2 inch piece
6. Blue mushrooms -- 6 inch piece
7. Favia -- 6 inch piece
8. Toadstool -- 4 inches
9. Kenya treee -- 2 inch piece
10. Candy cane -- ten heads 3 inch piece
11. Blasto -- 2 large heads, 3 small heads, 1 inch
12. Plate coral -- 5 inch plate

So help me out!!!! It can't live on the sand forever.

[crobattt]

I dunno where to put them, but i def wanna see pics when your done.

[NanoReefWanabe]

1. keep it low or to the sides, where it wont shade other corals, they grow really fast
2. keep low
3. keep isolated on a small rock island or mount to back glass up fairly high to keep it away from rock work
4. anywhere they look pretty
5. in your sump, LOL these are part of the reefer plague, no matter where you put them sooner or later they will be everywhere
6. again doesnt matter where you put them they will be everywhere soon enough
7. half way up or a little higher mine liked strong light and moderate flow
8. 1/3 to half way up as well, will quickly grow to show piece size and will demand a nice placement, moderate light, moderate flow
9. pretty much anywhere you put it it will grow, and shortly there after start dropping buds and like the mushrooms be everywhere
10. about halfway up nice showy coral
11. same as above maybe a touch lower, with the acans, just not too close to the acans, they will eat them.
12. keep it on the sand if you are referring to fungia sp.

[skywestseth]

Is this a current picture of your 6 month old tank?

[Palting]

I gotta say, NanoReefWanabe, that post was sweet and to the point. Bamf25, I have all the coral you've listed, and have them sitting pretty much where Nano there posted . Be particularly wary of #3, GSP. I made the mistake of using a rock with "some" GSP as a support rock for a tower, so now I have to beat it back every week by scraping it. And mushrooms! Regardless of where you put mushrooms, they just seem to pop up everywhere later LOL!!

Congrats on your acquisitions!! Post some pics. I'm a sucker for pics.

[bamf25]

Originally Posted by skywestseth

Is this a current picture of your 6 month old tank?

No, those were taken to get an idea of light balence right after I put my leds together. That was the tank 6 months ago. Will work on getting some more current pics.