Hey fellas!
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
So... Im getting cold feet with placing my scatter brain montipora on the rock. I have no qualms about putting zoa's on the rock since I've done it before in the past.. but I've never glued an encrusting monti on the main rock structure other than a monti plate. Plates, I have no issues controlling them, but encrusting corals I def worry.
I'm just focusing on the long term of my reef.. I would hate for the monti to take over my entire rock structure with no more real estate for zoas. Or worse, kill off my zoa's for space.
If I do decide to place the encrusting monti on the main rock, how can I control it other than using glue or putty to stop it in it's track? Is it hard chipping it away on rock ? I would imagine it being really messy and a lot of work..
I did thought about gluing the frag on the back glass but not sure if it'll be easy to chip it away once it grows out.. is a razor blade effective in scraping off monti on glass such as a montipora palawanesis?
Anybody with real world experience? Especially fragging the palawanesis variety?
Thanks!!
Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
So... Im getting cold feet with placing my scatter brain montipora on the rock. I have no qualms about putting zoa's on the rock since I've done it before in the past.. but I've never glued an encrusting monti on the main rock structure other than a monti plate. Plates, I have no issues controlling them, but encrusting corals I def worry.
I'm just focusing on the long term of my reef.. I would hate for the monti to take over my entire rock structure with no more real estate for zoas. Or worse, kill off my zoa's for space.
If I do decide to place the encrusting monti on the main rock, how can I control it other than using glue or putty to stop it in it's track? Is it hard chipping it away on rock ? I would imagine it being really messy and a lot of work..
I did thought about gluing the frag on the back glass but not sure if it'll be easy to chip it away once it grows out.. is a razor blade effective in scraping off monti on glass such as a montipora palawanesis?
Anybody with real world experience? Especially fragging the palawanesis variety?
Thanks!!