Red Planet & SSC

[Tracey2]

My redplanet and strawberry shortcake have been branching out from the same rock for years and look great. Recently the red planet is starting to grow over the ssc. Maybe a stupid questions but any suggestions how I can stop this without damaging either coral.

 

[Piper27]

Posting pictures would help, and be nice for everyone to see!

 

[Airwolf75]

The Red a Planet coral I have is very aggressive. It grows out sideways and tends to win against all others it touches, you have to frag it.

 

[Reefnub]

The Red a Planet coral I have is very aggressive. It grows out sideways and tends to win against all others it touches, you have to frag it.

Being a milli they usually are able to kill anything they touch! I suggest fragging it too or figure some way of preventing them from touching each other.

 

[LoJack]

Being a milli they usually are able to kill anything they touch! I suggest fragging it too or figure some way of preventing them from touching each other.

I don't think Red Planet is a Milli.

There is debate to what it truly is, but every article I've read points to either:

Acropora anthocercis

or

Acropora hyacinthus

 

[Reefnub]

I don't think Red Planet is a Milli.

There is debate to what it truly is, but every article I've read points to either:

Acropora anthocercis

or

Acropora hyacinthus

You're right, I forgot. I'm use to everyone calling everything tabling hairy milli. I believe it's a hycainthus.

 

[kleach]

I'm curious too. I've only had my red planet (2-3 inches) for about 6 months but it started encrusting over the rock and is headed right towards another coral. I wash't going to do anything about it until I stumbled across this thread.

I know someone said frag it to Tracey, but I have no idea how to frag a piece that is encrusting. Do I just break it off?

Don't mean to get off track or hijack the thread. (P.S. you can see the red planet and how its encrusting in my profile album. It's the second picture).

 

[bigbpro916]

Frag and send me a piece!

 

[Tracey2]

This is a pic of how things used to look



This is a horrible pic from today but I hope you can see how the red planet is taking over



I don't know how I can frag from the centre, I think I will just have to remove as much as I can of the SSC, unfortunate.

 

[bigbpro916]

Are they bothering each other yet?

 

[basser1]

Just askin' since I just got a frag of SSC. But is the SSC a tabling acro??

 

[Tracey2]

I know its hard to see in the second pic but the red planet is starting to grow over the SSC from the centre.

In the first pice they are almost the same size now the red planet is alot bigger.

 

[CUZ]

1st world problem....




sorry, sweet pic!!

 

[Ptyochromis]

You could always frag it back.... and send me some

 

[Reefnub]

Just askin' since I just got a frag of SSC. But is the SSC a tabling acro??

The original one is. The wild one everyone calls SSC doesn't, but I could be wrong.

 

[Ptyochromis]

I'm curious too. I've only had my red planet (2-3 inches) for about 6 months but it started encrusting over the rock and is headed right towards another coral. I wash't going to do anything about it until I stumbled across this thread.

I know someone said frag it to Tracey, but I have no idea how to frag a piece that is encrusting. Do I just break it off?

Don't mean to get off track or hijack the thread. (P.S. you can see the red planet and how its encrusting in my profile album. It's the second picture).

I managed to remove an encrusting monty that was invading another monty by sawing at the seam of the two corals with a thin metal nail file. It worked rather well, the skeleton was rather soft and porous. One of them was left with a small section 1mm thick; so far no tissue loss and it's been 4 days.