How many frags in your main display tank?

[PhreeByrd]

Amazing. But here is my question: How do you guys deal with things when the corals start growing all over/into each other? I see a lot of tank photos where the corals are placed right next to each other, and they appear to have no space to grow. And especially with things like zoanthids, which look great when they're initially a smallish colony, but quickly start spreading all through the tank and into other corals.

 

[jtl]

I probably have 75+ frags and small colonies. All sps and lps.

 

[fish farmer]

Amazing. But here is my question: How do you guys deal with things when the corals start growing all over/into each other? I see a lot of tank photos where the corals are placed right next to each other, and they appear to have no space to grow. And especially with things like zoanthids, which look great when they're initially a smallish colony, but quickly start spreading all through the tank and into other corals.

In my response I had 7 established...red and green mushrooms which dominate 2 sections of rock work, also brown button palys which are holding in a few spots. Colt and nepthia seem to hold their own in mushroom land. GSP atttached to overflow and side wall, main plug was given some free space to colonize, it failed to establish in mushrooms land.

All my other newer corals are on the other rock work which hasn't been taken over. Hopefully prettier zoas, palys will dominate with hammers above. My one brain is on the sand.

 

[Dburr1014]

I'm going to count tonight in my 75 gallon. My guess is 30. Mixed reef.

 

[lolgranny]

90......it's only 40 gallons...

Stop buying more and save for a upgrade lol. When they start growing you’re going to have a lot of fighting very quickly lol.

 

[PugsAndFish]

Stop buying more and save for a upgrade lol. When they start growing you’re going to have a lot of fighting very quickly lol.

I know but when I see something cool, I can't help myself lol...

 

[Waynerock]

When I changed tanks I had all my corals in a bin and wife came by counted 64 and lost it. Figure an average of 40-50.00 a piece. Some free some overpriced but man I got some money tied up in livestock. And she wonders why I am always testing and checking everything. A crash would break me!

 

[biophilia]

Is that a large Dendro right in the center, or is it a sun coral? Kind of hard to tell from the pic. Thats a rather large dendro if it is.

Yup, it's a dendro. Just next to it to the left and slightly up is a little colony of 6 or so sun coral polyps (Tubastraea coccinia) though it's closed up in the pic.

 

[Dburr1014]

I'm going to count tonight in my 75 gallon. My guess is 30. Mixed reef.

50, I counted 50 in my 75.

 

[Dburr1014]

 

[Magoo]

This thread is useless without pictures...

Fair point. As the original OP here’s my DT.

1 year old almost to the day it got wet. 100th frag went in 2 weeks ago in this 120gal mixed reef.

April 6, 2018

April 1, 2019

(I woke the Euphyllia garden up, normally those have more extension like this)