sfsuphysics
Supporting Member
Since my tank is getting all grown in, corals have puddled out (encrusted), I have in a few places done a typical newbie like mistake and places frags a bit too close to each other, especially with the "oh look there's a free spot on the rock there.. *glue*" technique that oh so many of us do. Well in some cases corals don't like competition. This is just a little into the boredom that is me in the mornings and I wanted to share. All are SPS vs SPS, LPS are too damn destructive too quickly and as a result most I've placed appropriately far apart... also no hydnophora... (sorry Jeremy).
I apologize for the blurriness of some of the photos as I took these when only the actinics were on, things have been white balanced however, so you see the true color of the corals, without the ghastly purple glow around everything, but due to the lack of light the shutter was open for as much as half a second in some shots, and I took these top/down so no tripod.
So with that all out of the way... let the battles commence!
Round One... FIGHT!
This one is your typical monti vs monti battle. a monti "cap" vs the Idaho grape monti. When they got near each other they started to both grow straight up leaning against each other.. unfortunately I think the cap grows faster than the IG so it managed to grow over it, however it looks like the IG is trying a flanking maneuver and they started to swirl. My prediction however is while there might be the swirling, the cap will grow over and shade the IG frag effectively killing whatever is shaded.
I apologize for the blurriness of some of the photos as I took these when only the actinics were on, things have been white balanced however, so you see the true color of the corals, without the ghastly purple glow around everything, but due to the lack of light the shutter was open for as much as half a second in some shots, and I took these top/down so no tripod.
So with that all out of the way... let the battles commence!
Round One... FIGHT!
This one is your typical monti vs monti battle. a monti "cap" vs the Idaho grape monti. When they got near each other they started to both grow straight up leaning against each other.. unfortunately I think the cap grows faster than the IG so it managed to grow over it, however it looks like the IG is trying a flanking maneuver and they started to swirl. My prediction however is while there might be the swirling, the cap will grow over and shade the IG frag effectively killing whatever is shaded.