Good morning!
Been keeping my eye on our reverse superman monti since it was put into the reef about a year ago as the size of a silver dollar. Now, it has encrusted a lot of the surrounding rock, taken over another smaller acro frag and a rainbow monti that had taken foothold but is clearly losing out.
NOW, it has reached one of my favorite tabling acros and has started to climb up the base. It can practically see the daily growth! I got into the tank this morning to chip away at it from the base and man, it's a thick skeleton underneath! Fleshy and slimes!
Any thoughts on how to get this beast to calm its growth pattern? It's a wave of death for other corals. The other corals around it are so happy where they are and to try and move them would be terrible for them. Plus pointless since eventually, they could have no place to go due to this monti.
I just don't know at this point if it's a lost cause and I will always need to tame it by chipping it back or if there are other ways around this.
I guess a good and bad problem to have when growing corals!
Thanks for the suggestions!
Been keeping my eye on our reverse superman monti since it was put into the reef about a year ago as the size of a silver dollar. Now, it has encrusted a lot of the surrounding rock, taken over another smaller acro frag and a rainbow monti that had taken foothold but is clearly losing out.
NOW, it has reached one of my favorite tabling acros and has started to climb up the base. It can practically see the daily growth! I got into the tank this morning to chip away at it from the base and man, it's a thick skeleton underneath! Fleshy and slimes!
Any thoughts on how to get this beast to calm its growth pattern? It's a wave of death for other corals. The other corals around it are so happy where they are and to try and move them would be terrible for them. Plus pointless since eventually, they could have no place to go due to this monti.
I just don't know at this point if it's a lost cause and I will always need to tame it by chipping it back or if there are other ways around this.
I guess a good and bad problem to have when growing corals!
Thanks for the suggestions!