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Reef Discussion => Fish Breeding & Coral Propagation => Topic started by: mrfish183 on April 07, 2013, 23:09:51

Title: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: mrfish183 on April 07, 2013, 23:09:51

I just went through 10 tubes of reef epoxy trying to "beat back" my encrusting montis!  I saved some of the bigger pieces for fragswapper but there wasn't much salvageable from the initial encrustation.  While these coral are beautiful, I just couldn't stand them killing my sticks anymore.  I've pretty much eliminated all sunset, reverse sunset, setosa, purple haze, superman, reverse superman, etc. (except for a few pieces near the bottom of the tank).  I now have room for some more sticks and my other sticks are much happier now :).     

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: lazylivin on April 07, 2013, 23:24:27

I don't have any in my display for the same reason. I do enjoy them small and colorful in my frag tank though.

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: Sonnyred on April 07, 2013, 23:29:20

Yes I love those things. But never thought about how they could be such a problem.

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: Steve on April 07, 2013, 23:35:15

I try to keep mine on their own rock as much as possible, when they begin to plate off a little that is when I frag.  My sunset is huge and the Jason Fox VO grows like crazy. It seems that most interaction my sunset has had with acros it has lost, not sure about the JFVO. Right now I am using both to box in the brown clove polyps so they are welcome to grow and sting at will.

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: Ashlar on April 08, 2013, 01:08:31

Monti's in general seem to be fast growers. M. caps whorl and plate, changing water flow and shading things under them, m.digitata grows like a weed and frags easily, and encrusting monti's swamp dang near anything, given enough time.

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: Myreef55 on April 08, 2013, 10:44:52

Well if anyone has any they don't want I would love to have some..

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: Mussin on April 08, 2013, 16:03:13

Quote from: Myreef55 on April 08, 2013, 10:44:52

Well if anyone has any they don't want I would love to have some..

Heck ya, break me off a piece. lol

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: jdl513 on April 08, 2013, 20:18:45

I have not bought an encrusting monti in two years for just that reason.
Found more often then not the acro wins, but sometimes have to get out the razor blade.

Will most likely go monti free when I upgrade displays to free up more real estate for acro's and reduce the monti drain on my Ca and CO3.

Title: Re: Done with encrusting montis
Post by: bkvreef on April 08, 2013, 20:43:58

If anyone is getting rid of any I will take all I could get