Post your coral warfare pictures

[Uncle99]

Thats crazy looking. Its like the gsp is a giant green flat worm trying to slowly eat the toadstools

The toadstools stay just ahead, the GSP grows on their stalks.
One of the stalks is (or was) a purple Gorgonian, GSP covered it fully.

 

[Fatmike92]

Jerk frogspawn!

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Jerk frogspawn!
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Ouch, got him good. Did the frag make it out alright?

 

[Tankkeepers]

Montie cap vs palys

Montie is winning ok with me

Had a shroom vs digitata moved the shroom tho as it was killing the base of the digi

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Montie cap vs palys

Montie is winning ok with me

Had a shroom vs digitata moved the shroom tho as it was killing the base of the digi

The montis arent the most aggressive but with how quick they grow they always seem to win in the end.

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

What amazing photos everyone has posted and very interesting to read! I guess this gives a new meaning to "silent but deadly".

Silent but violent.

 

[shakacuz]

i still have a ways to go before corals are touching. hopefully it is not as bad as some of the pictured situations!

 

[sfin52]

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Here's the same coral from 1 April 2022.

 

[DeniseAndy]

I love seeing these pictures. I never seem to think of taking any when I see it. Here is an old one of my montis, but they worked it out.

 

[sfin52]

Holy cow thats some serious damage right there.

Ouch that took a big hit, thats allot of room it demanded. Is the green monti still alive?

Two post up you can see how it healed and new growth.

 

[encrustingacro]

Montie cap vs palys

Montie is winning ok with me

Had a shroom vs digitata moved the shroom tho as it was killing the base of the digi

some of those actually look like zoas, not palys

 

[Tankkeepers]

some of those actually look like zoas, not palys

Some are zoas but the current orange montipora capricornis that is up top is over taking palys not zoas

 

[Tankkeepers]

I currently have several types of both zoas and palys which the purple microcode and sps are overtaking and killing which I'm letting happen as the tanks going

Lps sps shrooms a clam and clove polyps

 

[TheDragonsReef]

This guy stung and killed a torch almost 6in away.

 

[Nate Chalk]

Little different war going on gsp over some weed palys i wanted gone

 

[encrustingacro]

Some are zoas but the current orange montipora capricornis that is up top is over taking palys not zoas

Those palys you are talking about actually look like big polyped brown zoas. Also, that is probably not a montipora capricornis as true caps are almost never seen in the hobby. Most capricornis in the hobby are actually other species of plating montipora. True capricornis are a dull purple in color and do not have any tuberculae or papillae. They also have a wavy texture on their plates.

 

[Lavey29]

This is a fascinating thread and I am just starting to seem some coral battles in my tank mainly torches hitting other corals quite a distance away.

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Little different war going on gsp over some weed palys i wanted gone

An immovable object vs an unstoppable force lol those two are both crazy quick growers

 

[EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal]

This guy stung and killed a torch almost 6in away.
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Sick chalice!

 

[TheDragonsReef]

Sick chalice!

Thank you, its a hollywood stunner just cant see the blues and greens without the blue light