Encrusting coral back walls

[fmp47]

Mini neon spongodes looks fantastic

Also the heavy plastic on the rear of fw glass covers adheres great to a clean vertical surface. Just glue the frag to a 1” square piece. Super glue it to the back. Just make sure you don’t want to remove it later

 

[OrchidMiss]

Trying to get a good photo of my wrasse that finally came out of hiding, and my cyphastrea was showing off a little.

 

[BrokenReefer]

Perhaps an odd question, but, aside from “coral propagation tools” … how do you prevent the encrustables from taking over side panels?

also, I do not mean to hijack. So, feel free to tell me I’m not the captain.

 

[OrchidMiss]

Perhaps an odd question, but, aside from “coral propagation tools” … how do you prevent the encrustables from taking over side panels?

also, I do not mean to hijack. So, feel free to tell me I’m not the captain.

 

[Charlie the Reefer]

Perhaps an odd question, but, aside from “coral propagation tools” … how do you prevent the encrustables from taking over side panels?

also, I do not mean to hijack. So, feel free to tell me I’m not the captain.

No - all for the discussion! Good point. I’m not sure to be honest, but I think the scraper does do the job. Although obvious requires constant attention potentially.

 

[BrokenReefer]

I appreciate both responses! I very much like the idea of The Encrustables on back panels, a lot of often unused 'real estate'.

 

[Superd513]

here is mine. Going on for 2plus years already.

Beautiful

 

[Charlie the Reefer]

Back wall becoming encrusted, but more room to run.

 

[Barb0713]

Hello everyone,

I just glued a bunch of different cyphastrea to the back wall in my tank. So far so good... I'm wondering if I could see any pics of any successful back wall encrusters from other reefers here.

Here's an example from @rusgum

Looks like an encrusting monti on the left side. It really looks stunning here. My vision is to get my back wall totally encrusted by various LPS / potentially SPS. I also understand people have done this with GSP / xenia. I've heard of people even doing it with wall hammers...

Would love to get some back wall pictures going in this thread - let's see what you guys got! Thanks!

Charlie

Amazing actually