Such thing as "too many corals"?

[Michael43]

Now granted you can provide ample space for now and their growth in the future, and can keep them fed properly, meaning food and maintaining chemistry levels, can a tank have too many? Its easy to say someone has too many fish but is this true with corals as well?

 

[brandon429]

 

[brandon429]

It can even be done without ample space. Above is highest coral loading to water ratio test of any reef tank.


Their faces were literally smashed up against the glass and packed in from behind for nine years. It's not that one can have too much coral, it's that the disdain of the casual viewer takes precedence. People equate packed with unhealthy but it wasn't the case here. It was packed due to health and excessive growth but didn't look so good, 100% of the visible substrate is either coral, anemone or coralline. The patches on the glass are blue and brown sps shown from the base>up

The growths extend back into the tank and are stung by the corals on the rock. Inside that vase and fully obscured is a full brain coral colony which survived the blockade. Not a frag, an entire six pound rock covered in brain coral.

this guy has since been cleaned up 2.0 lol

 

[Michael43]

That's a pretty crazy situation right there

 

[brandon429]

That is the ideal response too heh gracias it seemed fitting for a too much study.

If you zoom it and get past the why layer, it's pure brittle star arms and polyps and not any room. Was able to mute chemical warfare in all but the mushrooms, rare and odd phenomena the corals did. 8 or 10 kinds are in there.

To clean it, I drained the bowl and chipped out all center growth and the brain coral and set aside. Carved out all mushrooms from rocks. Vinegar soak 48 hours bowl 100% clean next decade rpt

 

[trido]

Right now I have my frag tanks loaded full and the display is growing like a weed. To the point my calcium reactor is slowly falling behind and the allelopathy is causing the occasional RTN of a few colonies in the lower flow areas in the display tank. YES you can have too many corals, if you cant keep up with flow and chemistry you have too many corals.