Desperate: Anthelia and GBTA are taking over!

Damon · Oct 22, 2013

I have resisted posting this because I really feel silly, but I really don't know what to do. When I first started my current tank,I was not proficient with keeping coral alive, nonetheless growing. Well, fast forward almost two years to now and I'm primarily(like 98 percent) sps. The tank is and overall has been doing great, but note I'm faced with a massive problem.

When I set it up,I bought a few pieces of anthelia and had a GBTA I got from a friend. Well now, they are all over the place. I've removed the rock and tried to slowly peel the anthelia off and have tried kalk pasting the aneome. The kalk paste only worked on a few, and I also tried Joe's juice. Add to that, that the kalk paste raised my alk level in the system, which I don't want to do. I peel and peel and peel the anthelia, only to come along a few days later and find two our three annoying little polyps in the underside if a rock structure. Then,a week later, that two our three has turned into ten or twenty.

I really don't know what to do. Has anyone faced this and if so, short of chunking they good processed rock, what have you done? I'm even considering going rock by rock, taking each one out and burning them with a soldering iron(sort of an aggressive banjo wand approach). I mean it's that bad.

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ritter6788 · Oct 22, 2013

Fluke tabs work for Anthelia,

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/reef-aquarium-discussion/86509-killing-blue-cloves-fluke-tabs.html

Damon · Oct 22, 2013

Many thanks for the tip!

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Reef Fever · Oct 22, 2013

why dont you sell the nem?...

Damon · Oct 22, 2013

It's way, way too many and they are so unneeded in my rock structure that I would probably kill every stone I had trying to get them out of there. And even then,I know some way, they would come back. Those things I swear re appear in the most impossible pores of the rock.

I did originally consider it, but at this point it's not even worth the money. I have a ton more tired up in the sticks and I don't want them injured.

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Rob in Puyallup · Oct 22, 2013

I'd love to see pictures. (Hint, hint!)

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Damon · Oct 22, 2013

I don't have anything current. I just have video on YouTube, but this is is from July and its gotten much worse since then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Kfv7Fn6ak&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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Reef Fever · Oct 23, 2013

Damon said:
It's way, way too many and they are so unneeded in my rock structure that I would probably kill every stone I had trying to get them out of there. And even then,I know some way, they would come back. Those things I swear re appear in the most impossible pores of the rock.

I did originally consider it, but at this point it's not even worth the money. I have a ton more tired up in the sticks and I don't want them injured.

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watched the vid, many look like they are in easy spots to pull, im sure you could get $15 a piece if not more for them. IMO its worth the money but to each their own!