LPS Placement

[d00d]

I am thinking of packing my tank more densely with corals. But I have a problem. As LPS cannot be placed close together, there would be parts of the tank that would be empty. not pleasing... So far only SPS, whoa so dense and beautiful.

May I know if there are any way out of this problem? Are there any corals that can be placed in between two LPS? Need ideas and suggestions! All welcomed! THANKS!

[d00d]

One more thing to add... From what I read, same species of LPS can be placed together. Eg: Green Hammer with Brown Hammer. Elegance and Elegance... Stuff like that.

[giantbicycle]

want to knw too...want to pack my tank with corals closely but dun knw how..Use a small piece of stone to seperate??

[ReDDeviLs]

corals like hammers,frogspawns can be place together.

[bubble_gum]

want to knw too...want to pack my tank with corals closely but dun knw how..Use a small piece of stone to seperate??

had a long thought abt this but then it occured to me gg to set up a species tank.... all openbrains trachyphyllia only tank (hope i finally get the spelling right )

[Eric]

I am thinking of packing my tank more densely with corals. But I have a problem. As LPS cannot be placed close together, there would be parts of the tank that would be empty. not pleasing... So far only SPS, whoa so dense and beautiful.

May I know if there are any way out of this problem? Are there any corals that can be placed in between two LPS? Need ideas and suggestions! All welcomed! THANKS!

Scape ur tank with tonga branches, give you lots of "holes" to place ur LPS & also assist in leaving a "distance" between the corals due to the different length and thickness of the branches.

Eric

[giantbicycle]

anymore methods??

[Navyblue]

I personally call it the 3D effect

I place corals almost side by side from plan view, but they differs in height, sort of stagerring the height of the corals. But of course, there are some limitation as well.

[d00d]

Good suggestions so far! Keep them coming!

Eric's suggestions not bad. I think a mixture of tonga branch and also multiple layers of flat plate-like rocks would enable us to place corals closer together, or in the sense look closer, as what Navyblue suggested.

What ya guys think?

[ryan]

i'm having that my problem myself too...

my big hammer stung my bubble till its half bleached, then my moon coral stung my big hammer till 2 inches if it (10%) is closed. then the big hammer stung my clove polyps after i moved the bubble away and put the cloves where the bubble was.

so sickening!

i was thinking of putting the LPS that can be placed near each other very close then put some Sea fans between the corals that cannot be placed near each other to fill in the gap. hope the sea fans cannot get stung themselves lah.

oh and will clams get stung by other corals?

[Eric]

i'm having that my problem myself too...

my big hammer stung my bubble till its half bleached, then my moon coral stung my big hammer till 2 inches if it (10%) is closed. then the big hammer stung my clove polyps after i moved the bubble away and put the cloves where the bubble was.

so sickening!

i was thinking of putting the LPS that can be placed near each other very close then put some Sea fans between the corals that cannot be placed near each other to fill in the gap. hope the sea fans cannot get stung themselves lah.

oh and will clams get stung by other corals?

Sea fan & clams comfirm will get stung.......you can try putting some polyps, buttons, soft corals in between.......they seems to have more resistance to stings.

Eric

[reeflobang]

For LPS like hammer etc that can come with long "bodies", I try to buy the longest and stick them into holes among the LR. Thus they look like "trees" and other LPS and mushrooms will not be stung by them.

In general, I use the alternative "high-low-high" (makes sense?) way to stack my rocks so that its easier to slot in the corals.

[ReDDeviLs]

do remember that different coral need different current.. so some corals like hammers can have higher-moderate current.. but bubbles too high a current they dont open.

[giantbicycle]

yar...and the lighting in consideration.

[nutx]

as long as du anyhow mix, u can get something like this.

[giantbicycle]

whao..awesome....so closely packed??????????How you did that??

[bubble_gum]

as long as du anyhow mix, u can get something like this.

same species do ok..... like me i have a pit or trycaphillyas and dun think open brains cant sting

[giantbicycle]

what abt different speicies..thats a different aspect.

[bubble_gum]

what abt different speicies..thats a different aspect.

arranging them will be a PITA

[giantbicycle]

arranging them will be a PITA

yar lorh..

[d00d]

Nice placement of hammer and frogspawn, nutx. Seen lots of people doing this. Real cool.

reeflobang, haha! I know what you mean by high, low, high... Itis how you place your LRs so you can put corals high and low. So they won't touch each other. Correct me if I am wrong.

Ok, so far got a few methods... Summaries....

1. Species tank haha! >> bubble_gum

2. "High-low-high" >> reeflobang

3. Long stem to protrud outwards >> reeflobang

4. Multiple layering >> Navyblue

5. Tonga branch >> Eric

Great job guys!

[Navyblue]

Thanks for your wonderful compilation hehe...

I have the same concern also as my corals are very close to each other also.