anybody find they have to much growth?

[ruiny]

As it says, does anbody find their corals grow to much.
Either taking away from the look of the tank or causing problems with other corals etc. To the point that you would prefer that the stop growing?
And if so can/do you do anything about it?

 

[Brickyardgreg]

Wow what a problem to have. Have tried fragging them down to the size you desire.

 

[njsurfcaster]

Care to share how this happened so we don't have the same problem?

At the rate mine grow I should move my frags to a pico tank. At least it would look a litle more complete.

 

[neoalchemist74]

Yeah but only Ones I don't like as much as opposed to the ones I would like to grow more.

 

[icycoral]

Lol to much growth that's great. I have this one green/yellow bottle brush acro, it's the fastest grower in my tank. Coincidentally it's also the most pruned/fraged coral in my tank. If you don't want to cut yours maybe try moving it to a place in the tank with less favorable conditions for it like less light or more or less flow.

 

[ruiny]

I don't have this problem with any sps.
I have with some soft corals though.
I as just wondering if people did find at a point, that their corals were the size they
wanted.

 

[flamron]

A solution to this would be to switch to a more colorful bulb (if MH) to slow the growth and maintain or enhance color (sunnyx suggested this somewhere).

The same could/would go for T5s - switch to blue bulbs with lower PAR to slow down growth and enhance color.

 

[Rosh]

For MH

10k for maximum growth
14k for equal balance of growth of color
20k for maximum color


For T5's it's all depending on a few factors which I don't want to get into much detail.
As people may start to react like I dropped a bomb on their homes.

 

[gordon2726]

Yes. For my next tank, only acro or slow growing species.. No montiporas!

 

[allsps40]

Plus 1 on the 20ks to slow growth and give good color. Phoenix 14k is the best for color and growth.

 

[flyyyguy]

just accidentally nuke your tank every few years and you will never have that problem


hth

 

[cwegescheide]

just accidentally nuke your tank every few years and you will never have that problem


hth

Just nuked mine about a 1.5yrs ago. SO THAT AINT FUNNY!!

 

[gofor100]

I say just frag your corals, then YOU keep the frags and send ME the colonies

 

[philipchan]

lol...my corals grow pretty fast to me,
But I dont have a problem with that, I would like them to grow even faster XDD

 

[chris88]

Mine grow too fast as well. It's a blessing when they are frags or small colonies but it is a curse when they grow to large colonies and the growth increases exponentially.

 

[chefzif]

If they are doing that well and are high end coral I would start fraging and selling to the reef shops or your own buisness.

 

[kdino1]

ive had that problem before with my scripps acro. grows like a weed. and i agee with the whole colony vs frag growth rates. colonies grow like wild fire. but like has been said before just frag them back and you wont have too much of a problem.

 

[serpentman]

Like gardening, I think any successful tank hits this dilemma. If you look in the wild some tabling SPS will span 8+ feet so given their design, left unchecked each one of our tanks would end up having 1 or 2 corals covering every square inch.

I find I have pest "TX trash" palys that have reach plague proportions. Monti cap needs to be cut back every few months and a couple of millis and my large soli are starting to shade out other corals.