2 Montiporas on same rock

[ssavader]

Has anyone placed two plating Montis (Superman and Palawensis) on the same rock and allowed them to grow? Will one overgrow or damage the other?

 

[ben&bobbi]

i haven't done encrusting monti's, but caps and digi. The either grow up to each other, then grow against each other, or for example, the orange digi will grow right over anything!

i would assume the faster growing one will cover the slower once the meet.

glue some rubble rock between them and the you can remove them to sell!

 

[Serioussnaps]

Doing it with two caps...one is growing so much faster it is shading the other so I have to keep fragging it until the other catches up. One I put on the rock much later as a much smaller frag. Once caps/foliosas start gettting big they really take off, but other than possibly having to do some pruning you shouldn't have an issue, however, superman and palawensis aren't even "plating" montis and are two completely different species so expect one to lose out IMHO.

 

[The Beaut]

Here you can actually see them fighting.

Here you can actually see them fighting.

The orange one is shooting out the filaments.

 

[jade2122]

I had a nice sized rock with green and orange/red digita on it, as they got larger the green almost killed the orange/red. green more aggressive than orange. so one will usually win, unless you get lucky enough for them to call a truce and live close to eachother without killing, some have been so lucky..not me

 

[Coderabit2]

My brown digi is starting to take over all of my other montis. Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[sfsuphysics]

same species usually isn't an issue, digitata will be fine, or caps will be fine, but as The Beaut has nicely shown different species can attack each other, it depends upon the species. I've not known (seen) digitata or caps to really attack, they seem to try to out compete if anything.

 

[snyder2050]

I have a few montis growing right next to each other. I just takes a little bit of work to make sure one doesn't overtake the other. IME encrusting montis usually grow over plating but platings grow faster. I have some green monti encrusting onto my orange plate. I just had to frag this green plate though cause it grew up and was going to shade the encrusting next to it.

 

[ssavader]

Serioussnaps, yes, your're right, these Montis are encrusting, not plating.!