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I've been doing a ton of reading regarding the proper placement of certain corals and seem to find different answers all over the place. So WAMAS, what's your opinion on the placement of the following corals when it comes to lighting and flow. I'm running two Kessil a150w 15,000k's about 5" from the water surface.

 

Lobo

Frogspawn

Superman Monti

Grinch Monti

Green Birdsnest

GSP

Trumpets

Xenia

Anemone

Zoas

Dragon Soul Favia

 

Thanks in advance!

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Start everything on the bottom of the tank, and slowly work your light loving corals to the top. Mainly SPS.

Edited by surf&turf

Right now pretty much everything except the Xenia and Anemone are down low and have been there for almost a week or more. I guess my question would be, should any of the corals I listed stay low? Which should go higher? Which should be in the middle? Here is my original plan:

 

Lobo- Floor

Frogspawn- Low

Superman Monti- Middle

Grinch Monti- Middle

Green Birdsnest- High

GSP- Middle

Trumpets- Middle

Xenia- Middle

Anemone- Middle (or wherever he ends up)

Zoas- Low, Middle, High

Dragon Soul Favia- Middle

 

Also, should any of these be in low flow?

Your plan looks good to me. Maybe try your anemone on the low part.

Zoas can be pretty much anywhere however the love high flow and dirty water.

Cool. Thanks!

 

Now, when I rescaped my tank today my Anemone ended up on the backside of my bridge. Can I move him? Or should I just leave him be?

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Be careful withthe xenia and

Right now pretty much everything except the Xenia and Anemone are down low and have been there for almost a week or more. I guess my question would be, should any of the corals I listed stay low? Which should go higher? Which should be in the middle? Here is my original plan:

 

Lobo- Floor

Frogspawn- Low

Superman Monti- Middle

Grinch Monti- Middle

Green Birdsnest- High

GSP- Middle

Trumpets- Middle

Xenia- Middle

Anemone- Middle (or wherever he ends up)

Zoas- Low, Middle, High

Dragon Soul Favia- Middle

 

Also, should any of these be in low flow?

Be careful with the xenia. Most recommend they be kept on their own rock island as they will spread to and potentially cover all of your rockwork. Also, take in to account your montis. If they are the plating variety, they will shade out the area beneath them. So you may want to mount lower.

Edited by onux20

I second the advice re: the Xenia. They will grow upward quickly if they are not at the top already. Placing them at the top of rockwork will slow their spread somewhat, but they will eventually move downward in search of new territory.

I made both those mistakes when I first started I put the montipora too high and shaded too much space below and the Xenia right in the middle of live rock and it spread like weeds same thing with GSP

 

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I second the advice re: the Xenia. They will grow upward quickly if they are not at the top already. Placing them at the top of rockwork will slow their spread somewhat, but they will eventually move downward in search of new territory.

 

I currently have them in an area that I would not be too concerned with growth wise.

 

I made both those mistakes when I first started I put the montipora too high and shaded too much space below and the Xenia right in the middle of live rock and it spread like weeds same thing with GSP

 

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I have a single small rock (maybe 4"x4"x4") separate from the rest of the rock work in the front of my tank that has the GSP. My thoughts were to allow this rock to overgrow with GSP.

 

Unfortunately I can't get a camera to take a decent pic of the tank but as soon as I do I'll post one.

 

Thanks guys (and gal)!

Just keep moving till you find the magic spot for all of them.

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