Man, I made some of what I call mistakes early on... that I didn't I would have but found out that after time corals grow and colonies don't like each other.

I glued a piece of Red Planet and Garf Bonsai about four inches apart. Very early last year I had to break the rock in half because the warring between the two colonies. The Bonsai had developed into a base ball sized colony and the Red Planet about the size of a softball. Breaking the rock in half also broke the Red Planet into three large pieces.

But at what distance do you place frags that you don't end up with a barren field of rock, punctuated by the small frag here and there?

Of course, both of those corals tend to table out, and grow up a few inches and grow out again. If I had knew that, or rather if I had taken that into account when placing the coral, my Red Planet would have been the size of a basket ball by now. Live and learn.

I still tend to just put stuff where I can place them.

When I get a frag it sits on my frag rack for a few weeks to see how it likes my tank and lets me move it around until I find what the little guy likes. Then I place one or two at a time. That way I look into the tank and I'm looking for one or two placed corals. Not a dozen. If you place a dozen coral at once, most likely some won't like the spot where you put them, but most important if you're not seeing it you've forgotten about it. You only remember it when you stumble across the dead frag hidden behind a rock months later.

Zoas, I place them according to size and stalk length. Although I've got some Mind Blowing Palies growing between Rastas, Miami Vice, and Wow Palies... I can see how this was a mistake. All of those last coral grow flat against the rock. The Mind Blowing palies tend to reach up and have a wider disc that can shade the lower growing coral. So I'm irked about that. It's irkable.

As far as placing the same coral all over the place, I tend to try not to do that. I like huge colonies in one spot, not large colonies of the same thing here and there. When I see zoa colonies sloughing off little bunches of zoas, I police that up and glue it to a frag plug. But as it sits now I've got two colonies of two different zoas growing in two seperate locations. Bam Bams and Eagle Eyes. I can get over it because both are very bright and not green.