Removing Montipora

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Whats my chances of removing this in one piece? I don’t want to break it up but think i gotta move it so it does shade out a huge area of my tank. This was my experiment to see if sps would grow in the tank and i didn’t give much though to the fact that it’ll shade stuff out eventually


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It will have grown into the smallest cracks in the rock that you can't reach, and if you remove it and/or scrape it away, it will likely grow back.

I tried for 4 years to scrape away that red monti and it always grew back. I've placed rocks on top of it, tried to glue corals on top of it, I tried just placing a blob of glue on top of it, it always grows back from under. Its a weed coral.

Finally I just pulled the rock out. IMO if you want to move the coral then will need to move the rock. Good luck.
 

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