Sunset Monti vs. GARF Bonsai

[Cozmo4]

My encrusting sunset monti is absolutely owning my GARF Bonsai. It's started to overtake the portion of the GARF that's encrusted and it's killed tissue 1/8 to 1/4 inch further out than it's grown so far. Any suggestions to form a truce in this one-sided war, or is my only real option to remove the GARF and put it somewhere else? The tank will be a year old this coming Sunday and this is the first instance I've encountered where a coral is totally dominating another.

 

[rbnice1]

Thats odd.

My garf killed off half of my stary night monti when they got close to each other.

 

[returnofsid]

I'm really surprised that a Monti is over-powering an Acropora. Yes, your only option, if you want them both to thrive, is to separate the two.

 

[ryanrid]

IME encrusting monti always win over the acro, plating monti however is a different story. you are going to have to move the bonsai as this will be easier to do, if yuo remove the monti there will no doubt be a small fragment of it left and it will eventually be the same situation.

 

[Cozmo4]

Thanks all. I think I'm going to frag off a good sized piece of the GARF Bonsai, but will leave some there. The monti will look cool encrusting over the shape of the bonsai.

 

[driftin]

Interesting, I have a rainbow monti that's losing to some unknown acro. The edge of the monti stopped encrusting at the acro polyps and started curling upwards. I figured that meant the acro was winning; I'll have to keep a closer eye on it now.

 

[Cozmo4]

Interesting, I have a rainbow monti that's losing to some unknown acro. The edge of the monti stopped encrusting at the acro polyps and started curling upwards. I figured that meant the acro was winning; I'll have to keep a closer eye on it now.

I have a rainbow monti as well that's getting pretty close to a blue millepora and it looks like the mille is going to keep it at bay. I think that it's probably case by case on which coral will win the war.

 

[dmyers557]

My sunset monti is killing my rainbow monti. I think the sunset is very aggresive. Even my meteor shower is losing to it.

 

[PowermanKW]

Hummm... My Bonsai is winning over my Superman and Purple Haze Montis.