Can euphyllia be placed on rock?

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Just glued this guy to my rock. All of his skeleton is exposed (not buried, obviously). Will he be unhappy here?

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As long as the lighting and flow are to its liking it should be just fine.
 
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Thanks guys, trying to spread them out best I can. I have these two in the center of the tank

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90% of mine are glued! Just make sure they have plenty of space between other corals, they love to send out those sweepers!
Dang you have quite a few. Euphyllia send out sweepers? Never seen them
 

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Well thier polyps can extend up to 7 inches and they have a serious sting against other corals.
And I know they are my favorite kind of coral! Lol
 

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Just glued this guy to my rock. All of his skeleton is exposed (not buried, obviously). Will he be unhappy here?

They do better when up on rocks. The new baby heads usually appear from the skeleton below the main heads.
If they are buried in sand, it would be difficult for new heads to grow.
 

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Their sting out stings everything else in the tank. I loved them but they killed a bunch of my favias. Torches need space. The only thing that outstung my torches was my lobo. He fried everything.
 
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They do better when up on rocks. The new baby heads usually appear from the skeleton below the main heads.
If they are buried in sand, it would be difficult for new heads to grow.
That's interesting, something to consider. Maybe I will raise my other ones out of the sand bed a bit.
Their sting out stings everything else in the tank. I loved them but they killed a bunch of my favias. Torches need space. The only thing that outstung my torches was my lobo. He fried everything.
They're not torches, frogspawn and hammer. I've heard torches are very territorial though.
 

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Sorry man its been a long day didnt get a good eye on it. Loved my eupyhillia. Had a toxic green hammer over 30 heads and besutiful frogspawn just about same size. Battled brown jelly disease a few times but last time wiped everything out. All gone. Duncans, trumpets frogspawns and multiple torches. Ssad day.
 

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Mine liked low flow just a nice sway motion grew like craxy off the sand bed. I had them middle tank if low i raisef them on a rock so they dont get buried in sand
 

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These should be mounted to rock.
 
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Yeah thanks guys. I guess I just assumed that they split heads, not grew completely new ones from the base.
 

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