LPS Coral Agressivness

[MAreefer]

Starting a LPS Tank and dont realy know what can mix with what and how close everything can be put together. All help would be greatly appreciated.

I would like to keep the following types of corals

Acanthastrea

Blastomussa

Micromussa

Zoos

Rics

Some Shrooms

Some softies

I am pretty sure those are all low agressive corals but what can mix with what and how close can they get put together? The only thing I'm pretty sure of is that Rics, Shrooms and Zoos can all be touching and dont fight.

Any other help would be nice

 

[MAreefer]

Oh and some Sun Coral

 

[reefnewbie54321]

wouldnt mind knowing myself ... Im a LPS Newb

 

[jafoca]

from what I know... micro and acan need the most space. The others still need space, but I have seen pictures of micros/acans reaching out to sting other coral.

HTH

 

[gflat65]

Acans and micros can do some damage, but not typically to each other (acan lord on acan lord, acan echinata on acan echinata, but acan lord on acan echinata, my echinata's win). Micro amak's should be fine together, also. Just give them a little space and you should be fine (~4-6" for other non conspecifics). The others are pretty non aggressive, with blastos being the next on your list. mushrooms can sting some thing, too though. Hope that didn't make the water muddier...

 

[reefnewbie54321]

Think blastos zoos and ric/shrooms would be a good mix?

 

[Sk8r]

Oddly enough, the most aggressive thing in your list is the softies: many of them conduct chemical warfare and can retard stony growth. You have to position them carefully so that water they've used doesn't wash across the stony corals (chemicals come with the flow). The stonies reach out with tentacles at night, and you can judge the reach by the size of specimen, up to a point, but the softies just let loose wholesale: they do it to each other, too. I've had two leathers in the same tank---talk about warfare. If one was happy the other was purpled up and nasty, and vice versa, until they had the whole tank closing up. Some mushrooms can be a bit aggressive, but leathers and their ilk can be a headache.