Any Sunset Montipora experts?

[Uprising Rage]

Not that you would have to be an expert....

How does it grow? does it just encase anything below it??
will making a part of the coral touch the live rock be a problem??
This is my first montipora and the websites all talk about a other types of montipora. any good input is appreciated. heres the care sheet info but it is for montiporas in general...https://sites.google.com/a/asira.org/www2/montipora

will post pics of where i have placed it later tonight....

 

[skene]

most montis will just encrust over rock. good water quality is necessary for success.

 

[sunny]

Sunset montipora is one of the aggressive monti. It will encrust the rock. I have mine on a rock which also had seasons greetings and undata. In time, the sunset out grew them both and started growing over them. I had to separate the montis.

Sunny

 

[rideit6578]

^+1 it just keeps encrusting and will win in a fight most other sps. I regret my placement but have a plan to keep it from getting out of hand. If I could do it again, I'd use a magnet and put it on the back of the glass. It looks nice though so its the good with the bad.

 

[Uprising Rage]

wow! i really like that idea rideit. R u sure it will grow on the glass? how about if i put it in the sand and it has nothing below it to encrust?? will it die or just live in the sand? thank you all.

 

[jgraz]

It will def encrust the glass. It will just grow flat against it. If you like more texture and form just glue small pieces of SPS skeleton to the monti as it grows on the glass and it will encrust that too and give it a little different look vs just flat.

 

[Uprising Rage]

okay, and if put on the sand.... will it die? or will it just not spread? would this be unhealthy?

 

[Uprising Rage]

Can some one please answer what will happen if it is put in the sand, and what if i put something like a dead brain coral skeleton on top of it? will it grow over that?? thank you

 

[jgraz]

Can't answer for the sand, though I can't imagine it would go well. As for the coral skeleton, it will just encrust it.

 

[Josh]

Don't put it on the sand, it will grow a lot better with something solid underneath it.

 

[Pseudo]

Yes you can place it on the sandbed. It will just start to plate and encrust the sand. Very hard to get off of live rock so placement is key. Here is a pic of mine after it encrusted a plug and I put it on the sandbed. It does grow faster on solid surfaces though.

 

[fishywoo]

I put mine on the overflow box.

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Yes you can place it on the sandbed. It will just start to plate and encrust the sand. Very hard to get off of live rock so placement is key. Here is a pic of mine after it encrusted a plug and I put it on the sandbed. It does grow faster on solid surfaces though.

Does the monti coral hard to move from its original place ones its fully stuck on the sandbed?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

Angelo was that a serious question....

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Angelo was that a serious question....

Yes it was

 

[KathyC]

Angelo was that a serious question....

I read that twice...I'm going to go read a different thread now :bunny:

 

[xxxAngeloxxx]

Really it was...why is it a joke for?

 

[fishman1069]

Its on sand! Of course it will be easy to move lol