After spending tons of money on different types of sps in my last tank I'm considering going with just one or two types of stag this time. My plan is to frag them and plant the frags all over in the tank and let them take over the whole tank. I realize if I use two types they cant touch or intertwine with the other but can frags from the same colony touch with out fighting. Does anyone have a tank like this. Please post some pics.
Will sps of the same species kill each other
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Reefer1225
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Frags from the same colony will just graft together
rogerwilco357
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I had my fish break off a nice piece off the deep water acro and it fell onto another part of the colony and blended right in or mended it self really cool not sure if I would have called it a frag but it was an inch by and inch piece that i didn't have to mount.
NewbyReefer
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Don't know about Stags, but I did see a pic on here once or twice where people do this with birdsnest of different colors.
Dog boy Dave
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My guys grow all over each other. Occationally I see some serious die back but usually they just build lil walls. I loose alot more pieces when the pieces higher up in the column get so big they shade the lower pieces. Watching my guys over the last several years;While they do sting each other and use chemical aggression occationally, its clear that they use their fast growth and shade as their primary form of aggression.
Frick
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^Wow I love it when i cant see the live rock anymore. Very nice.
IMO on "grafting" SPS is that it really is not possible to have a true graft. Grafting trees is the process of physically taking a piece of one tree and growing it to another. Even if you had the same species of SPS they will tolerate each other but never actually grow together. The tissue will not join, just over lap.
There is also SPS colonies that will catch a spawn from another and begin to grow that pigment in that area. That appears to be a graft and is called that often. But IMO is not a true graft. This is one pigment "marbleizing/bleeding" onto another. Giving the appearance that another piece has been joined to another.
IMO on "grafting" SPS is that it really is not possible to have a true graft. Grafting trees is the process of physically taking a piece of one tree and growing it to another. Even if you had the same species of SPS they will tolerate each other but never actually grow together. The tissue will not join, just over lap.
There is also SPS colonies that will catch a spawn from another and begin to grow that pigment in that area. That appears to be a graft and is called that often. But IMO is not a true graft. This is one pigment "marbleizing/bleeding" onto another. Giving the appearance that another piece has been joined to another.
Dog boy Dave
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I have lots of large fish that I feed regular but I dont feed my corals other than what flows around in the system. There is a lot that flows around though and the system is full of life.
barriosman
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WOW! That looks like a coral wonderland. Amazing work!
TucanSam007
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jesus dog boy that large coral looks at least 3' wide!
Dog boy Dave
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I think its around 3 feet accross. Most of the growth on this coral has been in the last 5 years. I have a growth thread gowing. http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1425143
Dog boy Dave
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I use an MRC CR@ ca Reactor with a lage third chamber added. It uses about 3 pounds of media a month. Growth in this tank is crazy anymore.
Breakbeats2334
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Your corals appear to be really healthy even at the base stems where in most peoples tanks with big colonies seem to have alittle die off from shading. Whats are the sources for flow in your tank along with turnover?
