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12/28/2007, 11:23 AM
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SPS Chemical Warfare
I'm trying to get a better understanding of what kind of chemical warfare goes on between/among the SPS and LPS corals in my system. I did a little rearranging and some corals crocked immediately. I'm thinking thier new neighbors may have had something to do with it.
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12/28/2007, 02:37 PM
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Allelopathy is the term for coral chemical "competition" if that helps with searches. I did a bit of looking into it a couple of years ago and LPS allelopathy is much more well documented than what goes on between Acropora and other SPS corals. I really couldn't find anything concerning Acros.
If your corals died immediately it sounds more like stress from moving. Did you do a large water change or did the corals get too cold while out of the tank in buckets etc....? Allelopathy usually presents as a slow demise of the affected coral IME. Chris
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12/28/2007, 05:01 PM
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The corals were never really out of the water. I moved them over to the frag tank while I rearranged the aquascape and put them back in the main tank two days later. The ones that died...I put them fairly close to either a large Postrata or a large Milli(about 2.5 - 3 inches away). I think the lighting was the same and the amout of water movement was comparable to their previous locations. It could be just stress from the move and relocation, but these were fairly good growing frags that just decided to stop existing. That's why I'm wondering about possible chemical combat from the big boys.
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