short tent. plate question

[bowfront26]

can you place these plate corals next to one another without them attacking eachother.

 

[REEF-DADDY]

I'd give them a good spread, although they don't have long tentacles they do move a bit. I use double the width of the coral as a rule of thumb

 

[bowfront26]

kind of tough in a nano cube, i did not know that short tentacle plates moved around.

 

[Amphiprion]

Fungiids don't seem to "sting" each other as they would other corals. While they may occur in clustered aggregations in the wild, it may not be such a good idea in an aquarium.

 

[bowfront26]

thanks, I found this on wetwebmedia.com's site...

"Though these mobile scleractinians don't sting each other, other sessile invertebrates must be placed, arranged out of harm's way, including climbing harm's way. Most other corals will suffer given contact with a Fungiid skeleton, polyp or its mucus. At right a sick, mis-placed fungiid... miserable."