War coral placement

[Pulldeez]

I bought a frag couple weeks back and placed him low on the rocks, and after looking around I have noticed people placing them in the sand bed. Just wondering if the sand bed provides better conditions?

 

[ReefKeeper09]

I have mine placed on the rockwork low in the tank. They are an encrusting coral so when you place them on the rockwork you are giving them more landscape to take over. If you want them to grow and cover the rock I would leave it where it is. Just my opinion though. I'm sure either way it will do well.

 

[TJ's Reef]

I glued mine directly to LR in an lower area with indirect light and has encrusted/grown to about 5x its original size in about a year. I remove all corals from their plugs almost immediately and think the ones you are noticing are still on theirs stuck into sandbed.

Cheers, Todd

 

[ritter6788]

I have mine on the bottom glass.

 

[ReefKeeper09]

That looks awesome!

 

[Pulldeez]

I have mine on the bottom glass.

i have never seen a war coral slide down like that, very cool!

 

[Pulldeez]

I glued mine directly to LR in an lower area with indirect light and has encrusted/grown to about 5x its original size in about a year. I remove all corals from their plugs almost immediately and think the ones you are noticing are still on theirs stuck into sandbed.

Cheers, Todd

thanks for your input I shall leave it on the LR and see where it goes

 

[650-IS350]

You can pretty much have it anywhere. I have some on bottom in sand, some behind rock work almost fully shaded and some highest part of rock work directly under LEDs and highflow and its growing good.

 

[TJ's Reef]

I have mine on the bottom glass.

Now Gabriel, your just showing off! That's one Gorgeous War Coral bud and hungry...lol

Cheers, Todd

 

[ritter6788]

i have never seen a war coral slide down like that, very cool!

When I first got it only the front of the rock was covered. It's covered all over now and the back of it looks like melted crayons. It literally dripped down to grow on the back side. It's 100% covered now. I used to be able to pick it up but it's stuck to the glass now and I broke it on accident. I put it right back down in the same spot and it healed right back up. You can see the top is starting to grow into a ball shape that looks really cool.

Now Gabriel, your just showing off! That's one Gorgeous War Coral bud and hungry...lol

Cheers, Todd

Busted! I never spot feed it but it's in the perfect spot in the flow to catch food. I rarely add food for the corals but sometimes I feed my fish early in the morning and it catches some of the food. Those tentacles are out every night and you can catch a good view of them right after the lights come on.

 

[attiland]

I have mine on the bottom glass.

Do you still have it? Would love to see a picture of it 7 years later.

 

[ritter6788]

Do you still have it? Would love to see a picture of it 7 years later.

I took that tank down in 2016. It had grown up the left side of the glass and the front. I had to chisel it off to get it all out of the tank. It made a ton of frags! This was the last pic I could find of it

 

[((FORDTECH))]

I took that tank down in 2016. It had grown up the left side of the glass and the front. I had to chisel it off to get it all out of the tank. It made a ton of frags! This was the last pic I could find of it

Wow

 

[attiland]

I took that tank down in 2016. It had grown up the left side of the glass and the front. I had to chisel it off to get it all out of the tank. It made a ton of frags! This was the last pic I could find of it

thanks. so the pic is about a year later than the original. It tells me to make sure not to put it on the bare bottom but I love this coral so I will just give it a (bigger) peace of rock.

 

[HB AL]

thanks. so the pic is about a year later than the original. It tells me to make sure not to put it on the bare bottom but I love this coral so I will just give it a (bigger) peace of rock.

Anywhere in the bottom half of the tank should be fine. I put mine on this tonga branch a couple years ago. I thought it was dying a year and a half ago because it was developing a gray area but noticed the tentacles coming out of the area, not sure why its got that grey zone but its alive so its good.

 

[attiland]

Anywhere in the bottom half of the tank should be fine. I put mine on this tonga branch a couple years ago. I thought it was dying a year and a half ago because it was developing a gray area but noticed the tentacles coming out of the area, not sure why its got that grey zone but its alive so its good.

Really nice. Good to know it is growing literally in shade too. I have a rock in mind where the surface is kind of facing away the light so not much else would grow in it.

 

[michaelb]

I know this is a old thread but wow.

 

[Tcook]

I know this is a old thread but wow.

Well let's Revive it. I keep mine up on the rocks.

 

[michaelb]

Just got one. Was searching for tips. Have any?

 

[BanjoBandito]

i have never seen a war coral slide down like that, very cool!

Mine's actually like....OOZING off it's plug because I put it on a pyramid shaped rock. I'll try and grab some photos.