Invasive grass-like coral growing in my tank
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Ohioreef1700
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Post some pics
I have the same stuff...love it, but also pull mats off every month to keep it contained. There are also tubes of the purple that grow off the main mat that try to find new places to grow and I pull those off too. I've never had it grow on sand so keeping an isolated rock seems to have done the trick.
ThRoewer
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I have a colony in a 10 gallon tank with a gigantea carpet anemone and that colony is growing like a weed on the gravel, likely due to the high nutrient levels and high light intensity (Kessil A360WE almost fully cranked up).
Before I moved it there I had it in my 18" cube where it "infected" a rock with a small and rather slow growing daughter colony that stayed behind. That tank has the same kind of light but the daughter colony has more water above it and the tank is coralline algae and SPS coral dominated.
In general it is a good coral for soft coral or anemone tanks. Maybe even with LPS. But in an SPS system it can do damage by overgrowing other corals.
Before I moved it there I had it in my 18" cube where it "infected" a rock with a small and rather slow growing daughter colony that stayed behind. That tank has the same kind of light but the daughter colony has more water above it and the tank is coralline algae and SPS coral dominated.
In general it is a good coral for soft coral or anemone tanks. Maybe even with LPS. But in an SPS system it can do damage by overgrowing other corals.
