Monti v Palys?

[Randrew215]

I have a colony of Red Galaxy palys I'm growing out. A purple encrusting monti is climbing up the base of the frag plug. Initially, I liked this because it secured the plug into the rockwork nicely so I didn't need to worry about the frag plug taking a tumble down the rockwork. Now, I'm wondering if I should avoid the warfare. Can anybody say one way or the other who is going to win when these two meet?

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

imo

imo

nobody can say for sure which will "win", but (most likely) the protos and monti will co-exist just fine next to each other. I vote no intervention.

What was it the French used to call it... lezzy fair?

 

[tmz]

Borneman notes zoanthus often grow on monitpora on the reef, whether they clear a spot by killing some monti polyps or just or just take squatter's rights opportunistically isn't clear. In the words of Paul McCarntney I'd probably " Let it Be" or if it's a french coral" laissez faire".

 

[Randrew215]

Update: montipora is steamrolling through my paly colony. I'll have to break the frag out and hopefully I'll be able to gently pry off the montipora and relocate.

 

[rjmayes34]

is thier room for the palys to grow/spread the other way now? or is the monti growing faster than the palys?