Possible Coral Choices?

[Bryce Mazloum]

Hey everyone, I'm currently looking into getting some coral to fill up the back side of my main rock, right now all that's there is some xenia, but I was hoping to move onto something a bit higher up. Some ideas I had were either some kind of euphyllia, or maybe something encrusting. Also this area is in a low light medium flow part of the tank, anyone have any other ideas for what to put?

 

[James M]

Gsp

 

[Bryce Mazloum]

Gsp

I was thinking about GSP, but won't I have to worry about them killing off everything else on the rock? I have a mix of lps, sps, and a nem there and I really don't want to hurt them.

 

[Hermie]

maybe cyphastrea?

 

[xxkenny90xx]

There are some very nice mushrooms out there that would do fine in low light

 

[Hemmdog]

Acans, lepto, blasto, zoas, goni, favia. Lots of options.

 

[Bryce Mazloum]

maybe cyphastrea?

I actually just got a frag of Party Crasher Cyphastrea today, I have it sitting in a nice hole in the front of the tank because I really like the coloration and I'd love to see it encrust a whole rock

There are some very nice mushrooms out there that would do fine in low light

I plan on starting a ricordia garden so I might try that, but this rock is a vertical surface so I'm not show how they'd do

Acans, lepto, blasto, zoas, goni, favia. Lots of options.

I do have two really nice frags of acans growing up my main rock, Blastos might work, I have a zoa garden already, I've done some research on letpos so maybe, and with gonis I've had better results keeping them in high lighting, and with favia I haven't even done research with them so I'm not sure

I was thinking maybe clove polyps or pipe organ coral, they seem to be a good alternative to GSP

 

[James M]

I was thinking about GSP, but won't I have to worry about them killing off everything else on the rock? I have a mix of lps, sps, and a nem there and I really don't want to hurt them.

It would be the other way around, Gsp doesn’t sting but can take over rock work