Mixing SPS together

[Moto69Joe]

I have seen some amazing tanks with different types of SPS very close together. Are there certain SPS I should avoid putting close together? The reason I ask is recently I noticed my green birds nest was slimming very badly where it was almost touching my orange monti cap. I trimmed the GBN back and all is good now. I am starting to add more SPS and want to make sure I don't place incompatible species next to one another.

 

[Arkayology]

Two things will happen when you have SPS that start to get to close: 1) one/both will sting the other/each other; and 2) One will eventually grow over the other. I think the best policy is to leave enough space between SPS. They may start to grow fast and then you will end up with problems.

 

[listen2bob]

Eventually you will need to prune colonies to keep them under control

 

[bogg]

ime leave space to keep them not touching but I've also had two types of stags touch and heal together

 

[Rodmad]

Is it ok to mix sps with lps and still achieve sps success?

 

[Breakbeats2334]

You can Rodmad but you need to keep alot of distance for example i leave my lps at the bottom half of my tank where the flow is alot less while my sps are on the upper half. Its the only way i can do it with out ripping lps flesh.