SPS touching

[ryeguyy84]

hi guys and gals,

I recently moved my 60G and had a pretty large crash losing some of my favorite SPS due to the house not being ready for the tank but my apartment lease ending. Anyway, I picked up a 90 gallon and i'm going to see what I can save.

My question is I see all these beautiful tanks packed with SPS and I wonder how they keep them so close together? I had a stylo grow near a tort and the tort immediately died in the area that the stylo was near. Is there a method that i'm missing? like acros can touch arcos but not monti's?

 

[djbon]

I have a millepora colony with 2 branches of different acro, probably a tort sprouting in between millepora. Both are growing with good PE and healthy. Will let it grow further for confirmation.

 

[swk]

It depends some of my acros will just grow away from others. Some grow on top of the other as a barrier, and certain acros kill anything they touch. I have an Efflo that is the angel of death lol. Anything it touches dies within a day or so.

 

[Wazzel]

It is hit or miss. In my tank there are a very few that can coexist when touching. Generally there is a looser and a winner. When that happens I trim both back a little. Right now I have a millie that is encrusting into another coral and pushing it back. I need to epoxy over a section of the millie to give the other coral some breathing room.