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Someone posted this picture on liveaquaria.com. This tank is so crowded, wouldn't the corals be fighting over territory? You think these corals would be going into chemical warfare soon?
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My tank typically looks like that. I take a very Darwinian approach and let everything grow together (unless a real prize is being bothered).

I do lose a lot of things to overgrowth, but I think the tank looks way more natural than a tank of little corals separated by gaps.

Here's a picture from some time before 2005:

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I would have to say that the crowding in the lower front corner of the OP pic doesn't look natural, however.
 

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