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Which would you say are the least aggessive lps to have in your tank other than Caulastrea?
archer772
12-19-2007, 11:10 PM
I would say these Tubastrea aurea, Turbinaria peltata and Nemanzophyllia turbida
Catpicklesdog
12-20-2007, 4:36 AM
I agree with archer. My Tubastraea aurea and my Turbinaria are the least aggressive in my tank.
Subliminal
12-20-2007, 8:28 AM
I have 2 kinds of frogspawn, a plate and some blastos...oh and a trumpet. And none of them are really agressive.
The trumpet is almost getting overgrown with zoas, and neither seem to bother each other. The blastos are very slow growing, so they aren't going to bother anything. The plate is pretty much stationary out in the sandbed, so it's not going to hurt anything. The frogspawn will probably eventually become aggressive, but you just have to anticipate that in placement.
Sploke
12-20-2007, 8:40 AM
I'm glad to hear blastos are slow growing for someone else...maybe I'm not doing anything wrong after all. Its worse than watching paint dry lol
kay-bee
12-20-2007, 9:04 AM
Fox coral (Nemenzophyllia) is also pretty benign.
edit: whoops! archer already mentioned that one!
I haven't found our bubble corals (Plerogyra sp.) to be aggressive. We have a pink one and a green one. Both grow slowly and the reach of their sweepers is litterally no more than 1 - 1.5 inches.
Our Blastomussa merletti grows slowly as well. It's definitely not aggressive.
gomrjoe
12-21-2007, 2:28 PM
I haven't found our bubble corals (Plerogyra sp.) to be aggressive. We have a pink one and a green one. Both grow slowly and the reach of their sweepers is litterally no more than 1 - 1.5 inches.
Our Blastomussa merletti grows slowly as well. It's definitely not aggressive.
Really? That is weird, I had a medium sized bubble for about a year, and its sweepers were HUGE. I placed it in the middle of my 100 gallon and the sweepers reached half way to the glass long-wise on my tank. Goes to show each one is different I guess.
I was going to say that Frogspawn isn't too bad, like Damon said. On mine anyways, the sweepers only come about about 1.5 inches, tops.
I too have seen some really long sweepers on bubbles. Luckily mine is kept so well fed it doesn't send them out.