Best Way to Kill Encrusting Montipora

[JayinToronto]

I have a few green and a red encrusting monteporas that are creeping up to and starting to kill my other SPS corals. I've been keeping them at bay manually by just scraping them back when they get to close. However this is turning into a full time job. Is there an easier way to do this? Any advise is greatly appreciated.

 

[Spieg]

If you can bury them in sand, it will kill them from light starvation.

 

[Garf]

I have a few green and a red encrusting monteporas that are creeping up to and starting to kill my other SPS corals. I've been keeping them at bay manually by just scraping them back when they get to close. However this is turning into a full time job. Is there an easier way to do this? Any advise is greatly appreciated.

I want to see your tank

 

[Rmckoy]

Depends if they were easy to scrape back and control and dele da where you were located instead of trashing I would be interested in some .

where are they encrusted ? On the bottom glass or on a rock ?

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Turn off flow completely and make a kalk past thick, put on the pora, let it sit for a short amount of time then suck out the Kalk paste with an airline hose, all while not disturbing the kalk or allowing it to blow around. Don't do to much at one time do it weekly and it will keep those pesky monti's back.

 

[olonmv]

Send it my way. I got a knack for killing montipora.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Put another one next to it and let them battle it out

 

[Garf]

Put another one next to it and let them battle it out

Lol, double trouble

 

[Cheezle]

Wanna borrow some of my montipora eating nudis?

 

[jmichaelh7]

I hear these things grow no matter what

 

[bnord]

following this to see what I can do for my friggin' invasive green pocillipora, which turns up like neon broccoli heads wherever it chooses. have tried breaking off and covering with putty, F aptasia, and severe and biting sarcasm

Friends done let friends add pocci... apparently I was short of friends at the time

 

[Coinzmans Reef]

Turn off flow completely and make a kalk past thick, put on the pora, let it sit for a short amount of time then suck out the Kalk paste with an airline hose, all while not disturbing the kalk or allowing it to blow around. Don't do to much at one time do it weekly and it will keep those pesky monti's back.

One year and I am still beating the green devil back.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I have a few green and a red encrusting monteporas that are creeping up to and starting to kill my other SPS corals. I've been keeping them at bay manually by just scraping them back when they get to close. However this is turning into a full time job. Is there an easier way to do this? Any advise is greatly appreciated.

Im right in WI. You can chip off and send to me and make a few $$ while youre at it

 

[Mark Novack]

Cover it with epoxy.

 

[Waters]

To be honest, I don't think there is a way to kill it and keep it from coming back without removing the rock lol. I tore down my last tank due to overgrown montis. Once it starts encrusting into the nooks and crannies it is too late......they grow too fast :-(

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

To be honest, I don't think there is a way to kill it and keep it from coming back without removing the rock lol. I tore down my last tank due to overgrown montis. Once it starts encrusting into the nooks and crannies it is too late......they grow too fast :-(

Yeah its like Hawaiian lava at the point, just making more rock!

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Encrusting over everything you love!!!

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Wanna borrow some of my montipora eating nudis?

I would certainly try this. It will keep them from growing so aggressively and possibly allow you to get rid of them at some point. Those nudis can really do some damage.

 

[bakbay]

Funny - I spent 4+ hrs this weekend trying to eradicate them, although mine were not as nice as yours. See my thread here

I scraped the rocks with a bone crusher but missed some crevices in the process. Good news though -- I managed to remove one rock structure and will bleach it tonight.

 

[The_Skrimp]

Using epoxy putty over the top of it for a couple of weeks will kill the whole section back some and if you don’t press it down too hard it’s easy enough to pop off after you’re done. I do that with anything that is encrusting in a direction I don’t want it to. Another option is to glue little frag plug bits or rock rubble around it to create a sort of wall and once the encrusting coral starts to grow up that wall, you can break it off and have frags to sell.