Invasive polys

[jcolliii]

I have some grandis types and some AOG's and Krakatoas. I am always nervous working around them, especially the grandis. Safety glasses, a mask and gloves. Whenever my hand needs to go near one of the colonies in my tank it wears a glove. To put it another way - 200 nanograms of pure palytoxin can kill a kilogram of mice (~35 individuals). Scaling that up gives an idea of the lethality. 1g of pure palytoxin will kill 175,000,000 mice. Palys demand respect. I think most of the incidents I have read about involved inhalation of some sort. IMO scraping them off of anything is probably pretty hazardous. When I need to remove some from a rock for fragging, I try to pry a bit of the mat up with the corner of a scalpel or exacto knife, then I grab that with a tweezer or clamp and slowly pull away from the rock. If done carefully, you can usually get a pretty good sized clump per attempt.

Hope you got them all!

 

[A;exr54]

These rocks were filled with Palys just last evening.
I did miss some. But most are now gone. You can see where the monti stopped growing. With the palys now gone it has room again.

 

[Chrisv.]

These rocks were filled with Palys just last evening.
I did miss some. But most are now gone. You can see where the monti stopped growing. With the palys now gone it has room again.

Beautiful tang!

 

[A;exr54]

Beautiful tang!

Thanks
He loves to get into every single picture I take.

 

[sfin52]

I wish I can update the subject to palys.

Just talk to a mod.

 

[jcolliii]

You can change the title of any thread you yourself start (at least I can with my build thread). On the first page at the top, you should see three little dots... click on that and you should see something like "edit thread". Should be able to edit the title from there.

 

[A;exr54]

Those 3 dots just let me create a poll.
it’s really not that big of a deal.
thanks