what coral softies are toxic to each other?
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markanderson
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In my experience its never good to have any corals touching. Soft corals are general less aggressive than stony so they probably won't greatly harm the other corals, but they will release toxins which my build up after time and harm the tank. This may still be alright if you have good circulation and a pump that can constantly move water to a sump where the toxins can be cleaned out.
drea
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Originally Posted by markanderson
In my experience its never good to have any corals touching. Soft corals are general less aggressive than stony so they probably won't greatly harm the other corals, but they will release toxins which my build up after time and harm the tank. This may still be alright if you have good circulation and a pump that can constantly move water to a sump where the toxins can be cleaned out.
will do, zoos can be mixed though. correct?
In my experience its never good to have any corals touching. Soft corals are general less aggressive than stony so they probably won't greatly harm the other corals, but they will release toxins which my build up after time and harm the tank. This may still be alright if you have good circulation and a pump that can constantly move water to a sump where the toxins can be cleaned out.
will do, zoos can be mixed though. correct?
nano reefer
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the same coral cant sting each other...zoos cant sting zoos, mushies cant sting mushies, etc. because they use the same toxins. Whats the point of poisoning someone with arsenic who is immune to arsenic... also hammers cant sting torches who cant sting frogspawn... they have the same toxins. Xenia will sting any coral it tourches except other xenia. You should be alright. The major coral sting problem is LPS and SPS who have toxins very strong to each other and will cause a problem, softies will tend not to poison each other depending on what they are.
drea
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Originally Posted by Nano Reefer
the same coral cant sting each other...zoos cant sting zoos, mushies cant sting mushies, etc. because they use the same toxins. Whats the point of poisoning someone with arsenic who is immune to arsenic... also hammers cant sting torches who cant sting frogspawn... they have the same toxins. Xenia will sting any coral it tourches except other xenia. You should be alright. The major coral sting problem is LPS and SPS who have toxins very strong to each other and will cause a problem, softies will tend not to poison each other depending on what they are.
awesome, thank you for all that useful info
the same coral cant sting each other...zoos cant sting zoos, mushies cant sting mushies, etc. because they use the same toxins. Whats the point of poisoning someone with arsenic who is immune to arsenic... also hammers cant sting torches who cant sting frogspawn... they have the same toxins. Xenia will sting any coral it tourches except other xenia. You should be alright. The major coral sting problem is LPS and SPS who have toxins very strong to each other and will cause a problem, softies will tend not to poison each other depending on what they are.
awesome, thank you for all that useful info
teen
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xenia cant sting. it can grow over other corals, and shade the coral to the point where the zooxanthella dies and starves the coral to death.
IME, sps are the weakest. they loose the battle to lps and soft corals, like 95% of the time. LPS are probably the strongest, because of there sweeper tentacles, given the chance though, soft corals can take over lps.
IME, soft corasl can tuch without any problems besides growth issues. ive had, xenia touching shrroms, touching zoas, touching leathers. the only problem was that occasionally, another coral would out grow/ grow over another. this is most common in GSP.
but to go against what i said above, i currently have a purple rim monti capricornis outgrowing GSP. ive never seen this before, but the two merged, and now the cap is growing over the gsp, causing the gsp to retreat.im gunna try and get some pictures soon.
IME, sps are the weakest. they loose the battle to lps and soft corals, like 95% of the time. LPS are probably the strongest, because of there sweeper tentacles, given the chance though, soft corals can take over lps.
IME, soft corasl can tuch without any problems besides growth issues. ive had, xenia touching shrroms, touching zoas, touching leathers. the only problem was that occasionally, another coral would out grow/ grow over another. this is most common in GSP.
but to go against what i said above, i currently have a purple rim monti capricornis outgrowing GSP. ive never seen this before, but the two merged, and now the cap is growing over the gsp, causing the gsp to retreat.im gunna try and get some pictures soon.
reefkprz
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ok here is my intput on this subject
most softies dont sting with the exception of protopalythoas (and a few other zoanthus) most compete by out growing/shading/smothering, leathers produce terpines to war with competeing corals, SPS handle the terpines worse than other corals same with stings SPS lose the battle quickly when they come into contact with stinging corals with very few exceptions. LPS generally have sweeper tentacles to sting nearby corals ensuring it has territory to spread, the stings come in the form of nematocyst darts fired into the flesh of the contacted coral.
I have shrooms growing right up the sides of leathers neither really cares as the leather provides the shade the shroom wants and the leathers cap is too high for the shroom to block out any usefull light.
most softies dont sting with the exception of protopalythoas (and a few other zoanthus) most compete by out growing/shading/smothering, leathers produce terpines to war with competeing corals, SPS handle the terpines worse than other corals same with stings SPS lose the battle quickly when they come into contact with stinging corals with very few exceptions. LPS generally have sweeper tentacles to sting nearby corals ensuring it has territory to spread, the stings come in the form of nematocyst darts fired into the flesh of the contacted coral.
I have shrooms growing right up the sides of leathers neither really cares as the leather provides the shade the shroom wants and the leathers cap is too high for the shroom to block out any usefull light.