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Acro on acro crime. #acrolivesmatter
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Please post the winner of those three battles when one is decided. In my other contest between the ORA Blue Tort and The WWC Purple Candle, it is still a dead heat standoff with both growing and nobody taking over... this one is going into overtime.
 

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I had a sunrise millepora and a blueberry stag grow into eachother. They didnt fight or kill eachother, just kind of grew around eachother and kept going
 
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The TDF won from my first photo. It completely surrounded and destroyed the ORA Orchid from all sides - Patton did not break through to save Bastonge (sorry, but WWII guy).

I took all of my colonies out and started over with frags. The TDF was probably 10-12 inches across in a perfectly flat table. That ORA Orchid was the size of a basketball. About every three years, I have to take the colonies out and start over again. I had probably 40-50 touch points where the corals were touching and they were so close to the glass that I could not scrape anymore without making a hundred frags.
 

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The TDF won from my first photo. It completely surrounded and destroyed the ORA Orchid from all sides - Patton did not break through to save Bastonge (sorry, but WWII guy).

I took all of my colonies out and started over with frags. The TDF was probably 10-12 inches across in a perfectly flat table. That ORA Orchid was the size of a basketball. About every three years, I have to take the colonies out and start over again. I had probably 40-50 touch points where the corals were touching and they were so close to the glass that I could not scrape anymore without making a hundred frags.
What did/do you do with all the colonies?
 
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I break them up and give them away. Sometimes I sell parts of them if they are really nice. This time, I saved hunks of the nice stuff for my frag tank to start colonies there. I do not exactly break up my Purple Monster or other super nice and slow growing stuff, so it sticks around. Clams get to stick around too.
 

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The TDF won from my first photo. It completely surrounded and destroyed the ORA Orchid from all sides - Patton did not break through to save Bastonge (sorry, but WWII guy).

I took all of my colonies out and started over with frags. The TDF was probably 10-12 inches across in a perfectly flat table. That ORA Orchid was the size of a basketball. About every three years, I have to take the colonies out and start over again. I had probably 40-50 touch points where the corals were touching and they were so close to the glass that I could not scrape anymore without making a hundred frags.
I break them up and give them away. Sometimes I sell parts of them if they are really nice. This time, I saved hunks of the nice stuff for my frag tank to start colonies there. I do not exactly break up my Purple Monster or other super nice and slow growing stuff, so it sticks around. Clams get to stick around too.
That’s amazing to have a tank grow so quickly that you get to start over after just a few years. I’m surprised you don’t have a build thread for your main tank. Do you have a thread where you’ve posted any pictures of your tank/setup?
 

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I break them up and give them away. Sometimes I sell parts of them if they are really nice. This time, I saved hunks of the nice stuff for my frag tank to start colonies there. I do not exactly break up my Purple Monster or other super nice and slow growing stuff, so it sticks around. Clams get to stick around too.

If you need some help freeing up extra space let me know your prices!
 

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I got a bunch of frags from a live sale or auction a few months back. I stuck this WWC Blue Limeade in a natural hole spot in the rock and forgot about it. 9 months later, the Spongdode Monti is right next to it.

I thought the Limeade is a goner. But it looks like it is fighting back ok and making the edge of the Spongdode folding up. Or the Spongdode is getting ready to lift over it like a blanket.

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