Coral Compatability

[Bmgrocks]

Keepin a reef tank, are their prob. with coral compatability
who shouldnt be next to who etc

Keeping

Zoas'
Leathers
Xenias
Frogspawn
Hammer
BTA
Candy Cane


Should i be worried about anyone or do you think i'd be ok

[drummereef]

Those will be fine. Just make sure none of them are touching each other. I have all those corals minus the hammer. All doing fine.

[michaeldaly]

Yes, just keep the anemone from touching anything.

[lifesworksataol]

i have more trouble with my hammer going close to anything then the anemone - just keep a good space between all would be good and look nice - but just keep hammers and frogspawn and stuff like that away from each other - and sps way away from any of it - it wiped out a piece of my sps in one day

[Frick-n-Frags]

general rules:

no stonies can touch anything else
all softies can touch other softies
no big anemones can touch anything else

then there are exceptions. a lot of the LPS from dirty water are not aggressive and the euphyllias and caulastreas fit in with that
they can touch some softies and certain euphyllias can sometimes touch (you have a 50/50 chance a froggy won't fight with a hammer)

the guaranteed battle would be if the caulastrea touched either the hammer or the froggy

RBTA's are mellow anemones, so they go case-by-case.
my LFS has a big RBTA wedged happily in with Lemnellia and clove polyps - nobody burns nobody so, you can't say for sure until you see for yourself.

I pretty much let everything touch everything else at least once to see what happened until I picked up the trend.

The very very best total annihilation was when the xenia grew on the Hydnophora. It literally got smoked and dissolved and blew away like smoke once the Hydno had enough encroachment and broke out the dreaded filaments of doom

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