Should Softies avoid each other

[thecichlidpleco]

I cant remember if I read this or not, but let me know if softies should not be by each other.

 

[deelucky]

i would keep non aggressive together.just dont forget that mushroom sting,zoa,yellow polyps and such.

 

[seapug]

some are fine, others will battle. Most mushrooms can be kept together, zoas/polyps are generally fine together, but some types of Lobophytums, Sarcophytons, and Sinularias will battle amongst themselves if kept constantly in contact.

 

[dendro982]

Yellow polyps sting anemone and gorgonian, with gorgonian the damage is long-term, the branch still thinner, than others months later.

Anthelia and white xenia touch each other in my tank without problems. Anthelia and GSP too - at least I can't see visible damage and retraction.

 

[fillibar]

I have pulsating Xenia and GSP fighting each other in two locations of my tank. They both decided that they wanted 2 separate rocks and spread there quickly. Now they are both attempting to grow over each other and it is unclear who will win. I have been trying to move the Xenia but so far have had no luck getting it off the rocks.

 

[dendro982]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10494337#post10494337 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by fillibar
I have pulsating Xenia and GSP fighting each other in two locations of my tank. They both decided that they wanted 2 separate rocks and spread there quickly. Now they are both attempting to grow over each other and it is unclear who will win. I have been trying to move the Xenia but so far have had no luck getting it off the rocks.

Sorry to hear that. I assumed that it is known, that a lot of corals will fight for a world domination, others - will sting the neighbors, and anothers - just poison their existence

Xenia and gsp were not the worst in my 6g tank, 18W PC, but hammers and frogspawn stung the softies, had to move them downflow.

I recently removed yellow polyps (these were taking over, stinging even anemone) from the big rock, by removing rock from the tank, and using metal cutters for cutting off the branches of the rock with polyps.
Where the rock was solid, very carefully (knife directed off fingers) cut under the polyps, removing the top 1/64" or less (0.4 mm) of the rock, with polyps attached. Then glued them to LR rubble.

In another tank, have a little xenia forest, started to add the flat pieces of LR rubble under the stalks, leaning asides. They attached. As soon as connective stalk disconnects, I will remove this pieces (now with frags attached), and replace them by new pieces of the LR or a shells from the dollar store.

Same could be done with gsp, but I hadn't troubles with them yet: the rock is removable, and I'm placing it onto the LR rubble, just like in case with xenia.

Mushrooms could do this too, but the bright red is not growing well under 18W in Nano-cube.