Species Dominated Tank

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Have you ever considered doing a species-dominant tank? If so, what type of coral(s) would you pick and why?

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[Reeferside]

give me 1 minute alone with that tank... and a couple plastic bags :)

jk. LOL ! so sexy man.

 

[FishLipz]

Hammers; with the variety of colors and movement would be my choice. I'm actually debating taking a big chunk of my mixed 180 and making a hammer garden right now.

 

[Ssminnow81]

Always wanted to try this

 

[DeniseAndy]

My main display 210g is species specific. I have a gorg dominated tank. Since these guys do NOT play well with others, I have a couple leathers, sponges, mushrooms and that is it. I am adding non-photosynthetic in the next few months. Getting my phyto and brine in order first.
I can try to get pics, but not easy for me. I am terrible with cameras. :)

My 40gal is LPS dominate (maze brains (platy, gone, etc), favia, favites, lobos too) but houses some sps too

Why? Well, I loved the movement of gorgs. The subtle beauty and textures always got to me. Then when I had a few, they began taking the tank over. As I said, these guys do not play with others, so eventually I had to move all lps to another tank. So, it became species specific. Now, I will be adding some non-photosynthetic gorgs to the mix and maybe a carnation coral if those are successful.

Love my lps specific too.

 

[Mattweets]

I love the species specific tank. I now only have one LPS in my Marineland 60gal rimless.... alll sps now.

 

[masterbuilder]

I'll bite and post my "not ready for a primetime showing" office nano, less than three months old. Dont see montipora dominated tanks anymore so thought I would give it a shot. 20G cube with all montipora digitata. I choose a digitata tank because its fairly easy to maintain in my office environment and even with all the exotics around the old standby digitata has always been near the top of my favorites list. Will be interesting to see how it turns out.

(OK...I l do have one m. setosa. )

 

[DeniseAndy]

Nice looking tank. Love the colors. Cannot wait to see it grown out.

 

[mfinn]

This is my 50 gallon branching lps and some sps tank.
Just wanted corals that were fairly easy to maintain and could see the corals moving.
At the time, I only had 2 fish in it. A yellow multibanded pipe fish and a rainsford goby.

 

[Sir Chris]

This is my 50 gallon branching lps and some sps tank.
Just wanted corals that were fairly easy to maintain and could see the corals moving.
At the time, I only had 2 fish in it. A yellow multibanded pipe fish and a rainsford goby.

Wait u got a candy can or trumpet sitting on a monti I call blueberrry patch. There so fighting?

 

[Sir Chris]

Wait I see the fighting now. And monti lost like I figured. I freak when mine touch and have 2 rescape the problem coral

 

[Joshrobbins87]

I love the natural look of randomness in my tank

 

[mfinn]

Wait u got a candy can or trumpet sitting on a monti I call blueberrry patch. There so fighting?

There really wasn't wide spread fighting.
More like a tussle for space.

No reaching out in the middle of the night and "nuke em" stuff, like I've had other lps do.

 

[jlanger]

Not an intentional species dominant tank, but this was when montipora spp. corals were dominating my 120gal reef over two years ago; under two Ecotech Marine Radion Pro fixtures.