monti on tank wall

[dnsfpl]

anyone tried keeping monti on tank wall?

how do you do it? any pix?

what are the pros & cons

thanks

 

[mnchartier]

Not a monti but I have a blue ridge, so far all it has done is spread out on the glass and very little growth from the two ridges that it has.

 

[Dog boy Dave]

Most of the stuff that i have grown to walls has come off eventually. Corals dont stick so well to glass or acrylic it seems. They do spread out nicely on the walls and they do real good off of a bulkhead or something else attached. Eventually corals will grow over almost anything if you let it. If you look closely at images from my systems you can see stuff growing on the pump outlets and up against the glass all over. Try it and see. If the tank is thriving in a couple of years the effect is very nice. I also get good results by droping rubble into or against coral with frags on the rubble. It makes for a very natural reef when the stuff grows out. Over the years most of the reef will just grow together into one large rock. Kinda neat and much more natural looking then the usual shelf or wall display.

 

[basser1]

I've done it in my 29 gallon Bio-Cube.

It's easy to do. I used a frag-mag. Glue your coral to it and use the magnet to hold it. My monti actually got to the point where it encrusted to the back and didn't need the frag-mags.

 

[dnsfpl]

in comparison which monti are more hardy and requires less light?

brown? green?

thanks for sharing

 

[Dog boy Dave]

None of them demand very high light but like most sps they thrive under the brightest light you can get.

 

[newbie916]

Look into the Aqua Mag frag plugs. They're magnetic frag plugs that you could put on your back wall. The nice thing is that you could move the location vs. if you glued it to the back of the glass.

One Monti that I like which actually does better under lower light is the Jedi Mind Trick. It's probably one of the nicest monti's out there on the market. For the most part they are encrusting, but they will shelve out as well. Most other monti's color up better under brighter light though.

 

[MSHUR]

i have monti "purple haze" on my overflow bo growth like a weed..you can see it on this pic

 

[Dog boy Dave]

nice tanks guys

 

[MSHUR]

hey dave,
your tank is great too..


mike

 

[dnsfpl]

hope im doing it right

will update in a few months time

 

[thelizardkin]

My lfs has some red montis growing on the glass aswell as pink birdsnest

 

[essencereefer]

Small round magnets are easiest to conceal, on both sides. I have a good sized duncan growing on a mag inside the tank and double magnet on the outside. Never a problem. Haven't done a monti, but the concept is the same.