Planning on a new coral today.

all of those are real hardy. Like mentioned, the GSP will spread to anything it can reach.

None of these things will really grow in/on the sand.

Zoa's are also super easy.

how long has it been since your ammonia and nitrites first started holding at 0? If it's been a while (3-4 weeks) and your nitrates are under control (20ish or less) the corals you have mentioned are all fine.

not sure where you are in your progress... IMO, CuC comes before first corals...

But that does seem like a lot of fish for a 2 month old tank... :-/ I am assuming none of them are coral nippers, but not sure without the list

 

If you ever get down to the San Luis Obispo area I would gladly give you as much Kenya Tree as you want for free.

 

My tank finished cycling..hm....3 weeks ago. My amonia, nitrite, nitrate all tested 0 last week, not sure about this week.
I currently have 2 clown, and 1 fire fish, with 6 harmit crab, 1 necerius snail, and 4 nass snail, with 3 turbo snail, and of course 1 cleaner shrimp.
Im not sure if thats enough clean up crew though.

 

ah, that sounds nice. Where is San Luis Obispo? is it far from san jose?

 

what do you people do, when a coral starts to take over a tank?

 

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go there, fill out the form and get a quote... then you'll know if your CuC is enough

First, I wouldn't let it get that far along by performing often enough maintenance. I moved my anthelia (which can get invasive fast) to my overflow box on my skimmer so it isn't touching anything (can't spread from the box) but I have to trim it back still every 2-3 months to keep it out of the overflow teeth...

 

trim? How do you trip corals? with siccors?

 

so you got some GSP now... this is one that you would trim the same way as anthelia...

what you do is you pick at it with your finger nail or a razor to get an edge of the mat up where you want to remove it (or trim it back) and just peel it back to the point you want it and then snip it with scissors or a razor...

in the cases of anthelia and my pulsing pom pom xenia... what i snip goes in the trash...

my GSP is spreading like mad, but I placed it where I wanted it to grow like mad... eventually though, I'll need to trim it back too in the same way. I'd probably trash what I trim there too (unless someone local wanted it).


I am seriously contemplating letting GSP conquer my back glass on my next tank...

 

they grow on glass too??
I put the GSP piece on the sand, not touching anything. Hopefully it will stay like that =p
I got a fairly big piece too

 

i guess you did... i haven't seen any pic to confirm