greenbean36191
Premium Member
Introduced Acropora would be direct competitors with the native species and would likely be superior competitors. Pacific Acropora are mostly weedy, early successional species. Introducing them to the Atlantic would almost definitely be bad news. They're really good at sexual reproduction and recolonizing after disturbances. The Atlantic Acropora on the other hand are climax species that rely mostly on asexual reproduction and tend to be very slow to recover from disturbances (at least since the WBD outbreak, but likely before then as well).Here in SFL, I often think about what would happen if I slipped a frag of blue-tipped stag or even a Euphyllid onto the reef.