Why I'm not a fan of leather coral

[Zakk]

Here's a pic from my tank around 2007, this thing was a monster.  At the time the tank was running off tapwater.  Frogspawn, candycane, mushrooms and leathers LOVE a dirty tank, let me tell you.  I was cutting this thing weekly, putting the cuttings in the back of the tank, and when 10 more colonies started up back there I just had to discard huge chunks (didn't even think to frag it out, but even then who would have bought so much brown leather coral?!!?).  To think that up to this day I have some of the candycane, frogspawn and shrooms in the tank.  The leather ended up dying out, I feel kind of bad about it, although I really wasn't sorry to see it go.

I think this is why I'm really getting hooked on sps.  It grows so slowly and well behaved like.  ;D

 

[Seggsy]

Too much of any coral is a good problem to have!  At least is it easy to pull off the rocks.  I fragged some GSP the other day - and I was brutal.  Can't imagine trying to kill that stuff. 

Was a cool looking colony, even if a PITA.  But I am swinging to SPS as well.  It's a natural (if anything about an obsession is natural) progression.

 

[Blob-79]

yea i hear you, i love the look of a nice size clump of gsp lol. I keep a colony on the bottom left of my tank. just above it I keep a big bubble coral...lol just to keep it at bay

 

[Zakk]

Hard to tell, but that leather was about 1/4 the size of my 125 gallon tank.  When the other colonies sprouted up, I would say 60% of the tank was taken up by that one colony.

Most corals...if you really want to get it out of an area, just put a powerhead directly on it for a couple of days, and poof it's gone.