i just bought my first few sps frags. i am slowly moving them up in the tank while the rest of the corals(mushrooms, lps, zoas) move down. i would like to put the sps on a rock and surround the base of the sps coral with mushrooms. is this a good idea or this a sps noob mistake?
sps and mushrooms
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downhillbiker
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your mushrooms will sting the sps as far as i know. i am not actually sure with mushrooms, but i know riccordeas will sting the crud out of sps. i had a sps frag fall against a riccordea the other day and all the tips that were touching the ric are dead.
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ReefTECK
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zoas are usually okay,
but sps can and hopefully will, grow, encrust, and take up that space relatively quickly. Because of that my preference would be to give them a good 2" separation from one another.
But mushrooms will destroy sps corals. and IMO shouldn't be housed in the same tank. I have a couple of mushrooms that don't rapidly spread, that I'm comfortable with for now, but you really can't know if a mushroom is going to be benign in your tank or if it's going to go ballistic!
but....I also have those blue/purple discosoma mushrooms that grow out of control, and those are causing husbandry, and placement problems for me. These mushrooms are like aptasia to me. I cut them away from the areas where sps corals have began to encrust, but sometimes it's just not possible to get a clean cut, so I often obliterate some of them.
Eventually they will all have to be removed, and I get more aggressive I cut their colony back, but they keep coming faster. From 3 little frags I started last June I've counted approximately 280 known clones that I have now or have distributed! That's probably not even impressive to some coral farmers!
Yeah I feel ya I really like both but if you want to save yourself some trouble separate them now or but ready, willing, and aware of what tasks await you.
cheers,
andy
but sps can and hopefully will, grow, encrust, and take up that space relatively quickly. Because of that my preference would be to give them a good 2" separation from one another.
But mushrooms will destroy sps corals. and IMO shouldn't be housed in the same tank. I have a couple of mushrooms that don't rapidly spread, that I'm comfortable with for now, but you really can't know if a mushroom is going to be benign in your tank or if it's going to go ballistic!
but....I also have those blue/purple discosoma mushrooms that grow out of control, and those are causing husbandry, and placement problems for me. These mushrooms are like aptasia to me. I cut them away from the areas where sps corals have began to encrust, but sometimes it's just not possible to get a clean cut, so I often obliterate some of them.
Eventually they will all have to be removed, and I get more aggressive I cut their colony back, but they keep coming faster. From 3 little frags I started last June I've counted approximately 280 known clones that I have now or have distributed! That's probably not even impressive to some coral farmers!
Yeah I feel ya I really like both but if you want to save yourself some trouble separate them now or but ready, willing, and aware of what tasks await you.
cheers,
andy
seapug
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I keep softies, zoas, mushrooms, LPS and SPS and my tank and don't have any chemical warfare problems, but I do run carbon and keep things separated into zones. Even different species of SPS fight when they touch.
Keep the bases clear on your SPS. You'll see they tend to spread at the base and fuse to the rock like a melting candle. That's what gives you a nice branching colony instead of the single "stick on a rock" look.
Keep the bases clear on your SPS. You'll see they tend to spread at the base and fuse to the rock like a melting candle. That's what gives you a nice branching colony instead of the single "stick on a rock" look.
demonsp
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Not all coral created equal. Blood red shrooms will grow fast and aggresive and, elephant ears will reproduce much slower, but can get pretty big.Some zoos like the yellow ones with long pyolps will reproduce much faster then a purple people eater. Another reason to research each and every purchase.
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