SPS Spacing

[WickedBlue28]

Is there a golden rule for SPS frag spacing in a tank?

3'' apart?
4'' apart?
5'' apart?

What's your thoughts?

 

[dkerns06]

Depends on of you want big or small colonies. I used to have just 5 big colonies. Then i cut then all in half and bought 10 new frags.

 

[JT3069]

all depends on the space avalable, but never less than 3 inches in my book , you'll be fragging it before it can even table, or shape up

 

[WickedBlue28]

Colonies of the same type?

I'm wondering about the spacing of different types next to each other

 

[WickedBlue28]

all depends on the space avalable, but never less than 3 inches in my book , you'll be fragging it before it can even table, or shape up

That makes a lot of sense. I am kinda like living in a Japanese apartment here with a 28g NanoCube

 

[dkerns06]

Yea that's usually about where i go is about 3 inches between frags at minimum. Obviously bigger colonies you may want to put closer together.

 

[MBIETZ]

As long as they dont touch but more space is always better because they grow and its no fun to have a bunch of small pieces when you could have a few bigger colonies.

 

[JT3069]

A nano of your size you'll probably not have any large tabling acos in that size tank but
i see you having 5+ inch colonies, you could push to 2 inches on the spacing, and have a very diverse, reef(lots of color).
just remember you will be doing alot of fragging to keep everything undercontrol in the tank

 

[ek9vboi]

Very interesting topic as I've thought about this from time to time. I need to research species placement as well.

 

[Finland]

It all depends on the type of coral. Stags can get away with less spacing and table and bushy will require more spacing. Encrusting monties end up requiring there own rock. I have a tricolor that encrusted an 8X6 area then shot up tons of branches, ended up growing into a cali torte that was on a rock above it. I personally would go 5 inches between frags and hope they grow.

 

[sps_reefer]

It all depends on the type of coral. Stags can get away with less spacing and table and bushy will require more spacing. Encrusting monties end up requiring there own rock. I have a tricolor that encrusted an 8X6 area then shot up tons of branches, ended up growing into a cali torte that was on a rock above it. I personally would go 5 inches between frags and hope they grow.

+1. millis and other flatter tabling corals will need lots of room, stags need much less. it depends on the corals. you shoukld research the acros that you have to see how they grow out then you can estimate it based on that.

 

[Drewbaby]

Is there a good place to research growth patterns of specific across species?

 

[Finland]

Do a search on here to look at peoples tanks. You can get a good idea how they grow.