Post your mistakes in coral placement

[rayray]

so that frag or colony survived and grew large, and a year later you realize..."I shouldnt have put that there!"

Post your coral placement mistakes.

Mine:

Putting monticaps more than half way up... they plate wide and fast then shade everything below

Placing hydnophora 1foot near anything as they grow fast and have a potent sting

Putting zoas on the main rockwork, they grow fast and grow ontop of sps

Putting xenia on the main rockwork, they grow like weeds and are impossible to get rid of

 

[Skidazl]

so that frag or colony survived and grew large, and a year later you realize..."I shouldnt have put that there!"

Post your coral placement mistakes.

Mine:

Putting monticaps more than half way up... they plate wide and fast then shade everything below

Placing hydnophora 1foot near anything as they grow fast and have a potent sting

Putting zoas on the main rockwork, they grow fast and grow ontop of sps

Putting xenia on the main rockwork, they grow like weeds and are impossible to get rid of

Stupid Blue Clove polyps, too...

 

[jediluke]

Putting monticaps more than half way up... they plate wide and fast then shade everything below

Putting koralia pump right next nem. I lost my first nem.

Putting big nem with SPS in nano tank, all got burn.

Feeding too much, that was the reason for the first wipe out.

probably I don't have enough time to describe all here.

 

[powderbluu]

broke a piece of monti cap off, temporarily put it on my rock waiting to do something with it. couple week later, encrushed to rock and didn't bother to remove. Now it grow bigger and too late to move it.

 

[rayray]

monti caps spread like a blanket given flashlight lighting

 

[ReefRiley]

I'll take some of the monti if u guys don't want it. Iv always loved them but the one I got had nudis and I threw it out.

 

[rayray]

I'll take some of the monti if u guys don't want it. Iv always loved them but the one I got had nudis and I threw it out.

I just pulled out 2 dinner plates worth of orange, green, purple & yellow plates this morning! I wish you asked earlier cause theyre already dessicated and going into the calcium reactor tomorrow!

 

[ReefRiley]

I just pulled out 2 dinner plates worth of orange, green, purple & yellow plates this morning! I wish you asked earlier cause theyre already dessicated and going into the calcium reactor tomorrow!

Ahhhhh no bueno, please let me know when ur going to trim some I'd love to take care of it for u! where are u located at anyways?

 

[MikeGilliland]

1.i put my mp40 about 4 inches above my acan garden, they didnt like the flow. put the vortech on the other end of the tank and now they are loving it. 2. never left my porch door open to let fresh air in, my ph was at a constant 7.8 was so frustrated for soooo long. but got some advice to leave my doors open to let all that CO2 out and voila, after 1 day, my ph is lingering at about 8.15, and climbing slowly.

 

[Clockwork John]

I recently put a brain coral and a fungiid/tongue coral in a high flow tank without adequate shelter. The tongue has a dead spot on it from where the flow ripped tissue off, and the brain went from being pissed off to a bare skeleton in 48 hours... gotta love brown jelly.

 

[Clockwork John]

Ahhhhh no bueno, please let me know when ur going to trim some I'd love to take care of it for u! where are u located at anyways?

Ditto. I'm up in the AV. not terribly far.

 

[wickedfish]

Giant carpet nem. It wiped out a good rocks of xenia back in the day, wait that was good.

A strawberry postrata colony next to a vortech mp 40, about 7" away. I was told high flow, whoops. Expensive death but lesson learned.

Palys on the sand. They are everywhere and they aren't all that nice, mint melt, blah,

 

[rayray]

Giant carpet nem...

they are hard to place anywhere, because 100% it will eventually sting a prized coral or eat an expensive fish... like a meat grinder as the floor of your tank.

:viking:

 

[wickedfish]

Joe the coral! Only place it liked was on the edge of my Frag rack. It's been blue tipped and fleshy colored since my led days.


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[overbored]

great advice. moved my zoas to a less intrusive place.

 

[TypicalWhiteAZN]

Torch coral 3 inches from an acan frag... Acan was digested by the next morning.....

 

[BeanMachine]

they are hard to place anywhere, because 100% it will eventually sting a prized coral or eat an expensive fish... like a meat grinder as the floor of your tank.

:viking:

Do the carpets really have a nasty sting? I noticed mine is suuuuper sticky but didn't think they had much punch? Hmm. I've had mine about a year so far with no casualties, but it did move from the side of the tank to the front middle over the course of a week and I moved corals out off the sand and out of the way of its path. That happened once and its now been in the new spot for some time. Haven't lost a fish yet knock on wood.

Now as far as coral placement, having an acan echinata the size of a nickle about 6" away from an expensive chalice 4 times its size... well the echinata won... thats why I won't keep those anymore.

 

[Laker]

Had a trachyphilia radiata (Welso brain) coral high up on the rocks. After a few days, it expanded and got blown down towards the rock work. Sustained a small cut which led to an infection, tissue recession, and death within a week.

 

[rayray]

Do the carpets really have a nasty sting? I noticed mine is suuuuper sticky but didn't think they had much punch.

Yep, some carpets are worse than others. Maintenance guys have regularly complained of getting a rash from their sting, some even had allergic reactions and had to go to the ER.