TeeSquared1214
Community Member
I’m not sure if this exists somewhere in the forum or how other people have learned this but I’m having a harder time picking it up. How do people know what a coral will look like when more grown out?
Being new to the hobby I find a lot of coral that look really good, and that my tank can meet their requirements for. But since they are all frags/polyps/heads and often small, I have no idea how big something will get, if it’s encrusting or not, if it branches etc.
I’m just curious how to determine the overall structure a coral will eventually take so I can place it in a way to prepare for that.
I’m going for a mixed reef, mainly softies and LPS, with one or two SPS (preferably either plating/shelf type, brain coral, or acros).
Finding grown coral pictures online is harder than I thought it would be since most are of them on frag plugs/for sale.
What do others do? Do you either know what you’re getting and where it’s going and how it’ll end up looking or do you just YOLO it and full send?
Being new to the hobby I find a lot of coral that look really good, and that my tank can meet their requirements for. But since they are all frags/polyps/heads and often small, I have no idea how big something will get, if it’s encrusting or not, if it branches etc.
I’m just curious how to determine the overall structure a coral will eventually take so I can place it in a way to prepare for that.
I’m going for a mixed reef, mainly softies and LPS, with one or two SPS (preferably either plating/shelf type, brain coral, or acros).
Finding grown coral pictures online is harder than I thought it would be since most are of them on frag plugs/for sale.
What do others do? Do you either know what you’re getting and where it’s going and how it’ll end up looking or do you just YOLO it and full send?
