Tips for overgrowing cyphastrea

[LeafsReefer]

I guess I made a beginner mistake and put a cyphastrea too close to other coral. Its my fastest growing coral and starting to grow into some acans that I like.

Any tips on stopping it without breaking the rock apart?

 

[Saltyreef]

Unfortunately not. I keep my cyphastrea on its own rock island just due to the fact it encrusts and most of the time, wins coral warfare.

 

[Bartanto]

You could make a Kalk paste and nuke the edges as far back as you’d like, but that’s only a temp solution until it regrows. I do this with aggressive montis creeping on acros when I want to delay the inevitable warfare.

 

[Dburr1014]

Shaded Rock work above it, some thin rocks glued on top of it, some more powerful Coral growing next to it.