Show Your Coral War Photos/Videos

ritter6788 · Jun 13, 2012

I'm fascinated with coral defense mechanisms. I don't like for my corals to go to war but it's part of keeping a reef. It will happen to everyone if you're in the hobby long enough. I'd like to see others experiences with different corals battling for space on the reef.

Acan vs Chalice: Acan wins

Green Millepora vs Blue Snowflake Polyps (Sansibia): I call this a draw. I was able to save frags of the green Milli and the Sansibia vanished in the area but there is still a ton in the tank. It's like they nuked themselves to take out the Milli.

BeakerBob · Jun 14, 2012

Orange Crush echinata attacking yellow polyps:

Degener8 · Jun 14, 2012

Now that is one way to erradicate those pesky polyps..LOL
Excellent photos btw.

zoous · Jun 14, 2012

BeakerBob said:
Orange Crush echinata attacking yellow polyps:

Wow...that is a nice one. Great pics. Didn't realize that's how they attack.

weaponsofmassdesign · Jun 14, 2012

Lobo vs Duncan's: Lobo killed one of the two Duncan polyps.

CJO · Jun 14, 2012

Here's a rainbow montipora growing over some zoanthids and what was left of a birdsnest colony:

CJ

KLR · Jun 14, 2012

Coral warfare use to interest me a lot until it killed one of my most prized chalices,hahaha...

Nice pictures so far!

roblshan2000 · Jun 14, 2012

Very cool thread. Great pictures guys. My echinata is one of the nastiest corals in my tank. It was over 2 inches away from a large acan colony and killed about 1/4 of it before I realized what had happened. Never thought to take pictures of it though. :sad:

ritter6788 · Jun 14, 2012

Awesome pics! Thanks for posting. I haven't had any sps run into zoas yet but I was curious to see what happens.

wysiwyg · Jun 20, 2012

amazing pictures guys/gals keepem coming

revsgirl · Jun 20, 2012

Great thread!! Amazing pics!! :clap2:

Pappy · Jun 20, 2012

revsgirl said:
Great thread!! Amazing pics!! :clap2:

+1!

Ace25 · Jun 20, 2012

LOL, I totally thought this was a thread about War Corals and was going to post this pic of mine... then I figured out what it was about.. so here is a mushroom killing a piece of birdsnest.

ritter6788 · Jun 20, 2012

Ace25 said:
LOL, I totally thought this was a thread about War Corals and was going to post this pic of mine... then I figured out what it was about.. so here is a mushroom killing a piece of birdsnest.

Lol, well when your War Coral decides to go to war make sure to post pics here! :D Thanks for the pics. Nice War Coral BTW! Since you brought that up here's a pic of my War Coral eating a bristle worm.

jonbar1 · Jun 21, 2012

There is a line of skeleton between this red acan and the cyphastrea, surprisingly the cyphastrea is the one pushing back the acan. There's never any massive attacks, but usually once a week I have to blow the sweepers off one of the acan polyps.

The nuclear greens are now entirely surrounded by the cyphastrea and that fight seems to be a stalemate.

The orange acan echinata in the top right has gone on one attack and took out half the dark brownish green acan to the left of it, but thankfully I saw that in time to blow off the threads before it nuked the whole colony.

mallorieGgator · Jun 21, 2012

These are great pictures! I will have to post a picture of my caps growing into each other. They look pretty cool.

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