Waging War: Have you ever witnessed coral warfare in your reef?

[AlyciaMarie]

Corals are beautiful and majestic until they sting the life out of their neighbors. Some reefers may not regard research on the placement and aggression of individual corals as important until the battle has already begun. Still, even corals can inflict deadly blows on the reef...

Have you ever witnessed coral warfare in your reef? What was the outcome?

 

[littlebeard]

It's always the cheap coral you don't want to win that wins.

 

[ChrisfromBrick]

I have a frogspawn touching a red monti cap. Neither gives AF

 

[marcus aurelius]

Yes, I have a bubble tip anemone. It has split so many times. It's pretty much a weed now. Still killing corals.
NEVER AGAIN.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I feel like one day my gsp might be the one causing issues, haha

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Sweepers and hand-to-hand combat is the rule in my tank. But the largest shaper of my reef is shading and it’s the Acroporas that win this battle. I’ve lost a ton of lower light Seriatopora, stylophoras and Acroporas to the rapid growing light loving Acroporas. Once I ran out of room to move frags, I just had to let them fight it out. I have been able to move some low light LPS and softies into the shaded areas. So the tank diversity is still pretty good.

 

[kevgib67]

My Raja Rampage chalice took out two acan colonies because I wasn’t paying attention to how much it had grown. Now it gets fragged periodically. My torch battling my birdsnest.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

First pic is my acan colony taking a beating from the goni.

The second pic is hard to see, and a hard angle to snap from, but you can see 6 or 7 dead hammer heads, they were recently killed by that favia.

 

[Reefer Matt]

I’m always trimming coral to keep the peace in this tank. It’s interesting to see who beats who though.

 

[littlebeard]

 

[anthonymckay]

I had a Duncan colony that I grew for the last 4-5 years from a single head to a pretty good sized colony. My pink Goni slowly grow big enough to start touching it, and I was being lazy about moving things around. Next thing I know about 60% of my Duncan colony died off

 

[shakacuz]

many many many times. had a CSBBTA roam a few times and essentially kill everything in its path as it was during work hours. karma came around and the last time i took a stroll, it got a really short buzz cut....and died from its ugliness.

 

[Red_Beard]

Lobo digesting a piece of digi. Flash kinda spoils it, but you can still see the mesenterial filaments from the lower left head.