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Fastest Growing Softies
I am starting to get fed up with sps, though I really love the color. I have alot of mixed luck with them.
I would like to spend less time on the tank and have hardier easier to keep softies that dont jump ship. I have some starburst, zenia, and zoanthids. Is there anything that is hardy that grows fast other than leathers for a carpeting effect in a small tank?
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if you are looking for a carpeting effect.. GSPs grow like wildfire & I think they add alot to the tank.
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Yellow Polyps (not soft coral), green/brown star polyps...
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Yup like my yellow polyps though once they jumped ship. I also have some red mushrooms though those jokers are just invasive. I like fast spreading though non invasive. I was thinking about trying to find an extremely large GSP colony for my overflow box and breaking it up. I love rics though they just don't grow fast enough for me.
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My Colt Coral grows like a weed.
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kenya tree fragged many times.
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I picked up a free Kenya tree frag last August that was about 1/4" in the container when I got it. It opened to maybe 1/2" when I first put it low in my 215. It's now got about 7-8 branches and is close to 6 inches at the tallest point. Doesn't provide ground cover, but sure grows. I've also had good luck growing a colt from a tiny piece to giant in about a year and a half. Otherwise, beware of xenia and gsp. Some people have trouble growing them, while others can't keep them under control when they get started.
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from what I read gsp is the way to go, or xenias
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anthelia...I bought a small frag of 8 polyps that were between 1/8"-1/4" about 3 months ago and now I have TONS of stalks and I count about 3 or 4 new buds every couple days...Plus it is really nice looking, not jsut like the typical xenia and it looks great in high flow areas...
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I would advise against anything like xenia or gsp that will crowd or take over everything like a weed. Also, be careful when fragginf kenya tree or at least use a syphon to suck up any discharge from cutting, that is unless you can take out the entire rock.
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Kenya tree from what I have seen tends to jump ship as well. I have some growing here and there and find new shoots from time to time. I don't know why GSP get such a bad rap, they are great in the lowerlight boring spots like overflow boxes and equipment. Also look great in BB on the bottom. From what I have seen colts are are awesome looking though those jokers tend to melt at times as well. I had one for about 3 years and then it melted, it was a frag from a friends colony that melted later as well.
I am looking for some sick fast growing softies that tend to not jump ship like shrooms so that I can keep just a few nice sps colonies in a 60 starfire cube when I downsize my 120 and nano, "also trying to decide what to keep and toss"
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We lost all our delicate corals (mostly LPS) in a disastrous house move, and what survived was all the hardy, fast-growing corals. Our 90g is filled with low-growing, fast-reproducing corals -- I plan to fill in the spaces with taller, slower-growing LPS corals eventually, but it's kind of neat that as our corals grow now we don't lose the shape of our rockscape
![]() We've got yellow polyps, zoanthids in all sorts of colours, a huge GSP colony that's now growing up and around the overflow, palythoa and mushrooms. We also have some rics and a Lemnalia leather, but those are both slower growing so they wouldn't really meet your criteria. Xenia are also insanely fast growers, and anthelia is a good choice as well. Keep in mind, corals don't know when they've grown to cover the space you wanted filled; what was once favoured as a fast-growing ground covering beauty can quickly become an invasive pest. Keep lots of rubble around to place at the edges of colonies -- they'll grow onto the rubble, and you can remove them to keep the colony at a reasonable size and make yourself a little $ at the same time! ![]()
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Here is a picture of apretty much all softie 220G setup.... You can do pretty much whatever you want..... It does have a couple of sps but other than that softies, softies, and more softies
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My kenya and anemone(s) have overtaken my tank. I used to have GSP but unfortunately, they didn't make it for some unknown reason.
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Nice tank Racing. I have 3 aneomens now and will be getting rid of one when we move. I am downgrading in size so much I am having a hard time deciding what to keep out of the 120 and nano sense its going to be a 60 cube. I am a big fan of starburst and have grown a couple of colonies from frags. I also love the idea of attaching rubble around the frags, great way to propogate slower growing more expensive corals. I am a big fan as well of my lps especially my crazy green lobo.
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My 90% softie nano (much nicer color in person):
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