What's something that grew out of control in your reef tank?

[See Gee Sea]

Blue Cespitularia. I really think it is a beautiful soft coral, but I had to scrape it off the back of the tank, the overflows, and got rid of some rock before I got smart about it. I changes my aquascape to isolate it and just keep an eye it trying to reach out to other rocks. I know only takes up about 1/3 of my tank.

Same here! I put it on rocks in the back and there they stay.

 

[scottbapilot]

It’s the bristle worms for me

I’m thinking of buying an arrow crab, the worms getting too big

Horseshoe Crabs work soooo much better.

 

[Wolfman238]

Palys are the devil Bobby ‍

 

[sergifed91]

Gsp

 

[Mystery Fish]

Red Discosoma mushrooms. They came with a bunch of inherited live rock and I can’t wait to find every one of them a new home. They literally reproduce daily. Anybody want to trade?

 

[thatone08]

Haven’t had anything overtake yet. But it’s my first tank and only a month old.

 

[tbrown]

I mean, technically out of MY control is simply nature/the fish tank in control so is there really a true out of control? Everything is just doing what it needs to. Even death is in control, right?

 

[James_O]

I'm just lucky, I haven't experienced anything that bad, except for one aptasia.

bristleworm image via @Jay Z

I thought bristle worms were beneficial?

 

[BrianPoni]

Anybody want a rack of Halle Berrys for free?

 

[James_O]

Kenya Tree Coral! Solution, trim them back, giveaway or sell.

I'll take some of that off your hands! ;Woot

 

[James_O]

Anybody want a rack of Halle Berrys for free?

When I hear the words "free coral":

 

[ARCkeeper]

I had a green polyp sarcophyton that I got as a quarter sized frag. As it grew over the years I couldn't bring myself to trim it. It eventually occupied a third of the 50 gal. long I had it in and was attached to over half of the rockscape. I broke down the tank last year to move up to a 125 gal. and decided to rehome the toadstool because it would take up too much room in the new tank. I traded it in for credit at the LFS and had to use a storage tote to move it because it wouldn't fit in a 5 gal bucket.

 

[James_O]

I had a green polyp sarcophyton that I got as a quarter sized frag. As it grew over the years I couldn't bring myself to trim it. It eventually occupied a third of the 50 gal. long I had it in and was attached to over half of the rockscape. I broke down the tank last year to move up to a 125 gal. and decided to rehome the toadstool because it would take up too much room in the new tank. I traded it in for credit at the LFS and had to use a storage tote to move it because it wouldn't fit in a 5 gal bucket.

That's insane man. Any pictures?

 

[ARCkeeper]

I never got any pictures of it at it's largest. I'm one of those fossils that doesn't have a smartphone and the camera on my wife's tablet isn't very good. I need to make the move to a smartphone or at least invest in a decent digital camera. I've just recently joined the R2R community and everyone wants pictures!

 

[tbrown]

Anybody want a rack of Halle Berrys for free?

Where are you at?

 

[lumpadelic]

Rainbow infused clove polyps, I’m about to throw in the towel and frag all of the acros on the rock that are covering to get rid of them.

 

[sfin52]

 

[MexiReefer]

I would love to have "coral pest", any coral. Nothing seems to grow in my tank, excpet a huge anemone

 

[Peanut]

Blue clove polyps (sympodium) - I never added them purposely as they must've snuck in on a frag plug. I've watched them slowly take over rock after rock and I'm now prepared to go nuclear with this process from another exhausted reefer.

The exhausted reefer says it works

 

[N8trixx]

Haven't gotten gha yet... unfortunately I got Aiptasia grabbed some peppermint shrimp and they didn't get the job done