How to make corals grow in proper shapes

[carriej]

Hi Folks,

I look at pictures online and on here and see all these beautiful ROUND corals. (favias, acans, etc)

How are you all doing this? I have just frags at the moment nowhere near round.... Mine are lumpy and jagged.

Sorry if this seems like an outrageously dumb question - but I want to know! lol

[Spiny]

With adequate lighting and random flow, the coral will, in time, grow to the shapes you see in pictures, provided you don't frag it unevenly. You get weird shapes when the coral is either pushed one way by flow, or reaching to/hiding from light.

[11purewater]

Don't worry they'll grow into the shape you are looking for naturally,stony corals are fragged with some form of saw so It will have a squared off appearance at first.:smile:

[carriej]

They are all relatively new and have not had time to do much of anything yet; a lot are still on frag plugs. Should I remove them and attach them to rocks? I keep mostly euphyllia corals so these things are a bit new to me.