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I have some pink/gold zoas that are just growing too much. There may be in excess of 1000 polyps. I wish some of my other zoas would grow as fast. Anyway, I had taken out one rock that they were on and rinsed it off in hot freshwater for 5 minutes or so. I thought that would have done it. Nope, about 20 percent came back. I can't take all the rock out that they are growing on. I have thought about trying a Majano wand to off them. Any thoughts on how to rid them in the tank?
 
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7hogwarts said:
I have some pink/gold zoas that are just growing too much. There may be in excess of 1000 polyps. I wish some of my other zoas would grow as fast. Anyway, I had taken out one rock that they were on and rinsed it off in hot freshwater for 5 minutes or so. I thought that would have done it. Nope, about 20 percent came back. I can't take all the rock out that they are growing on. I have thought about trying a Majano wand to off them. Any thoughts on how to rid them in the tank?
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I had something similar happen with the GSP, I used my scoupel for fragging to cut the polyps up really well on the rock itself. This basically mangled them and they died off. You could also try using glue to cover them, but i'd imagine that would be a lot of glue... If you didnt' have other zoas/palys you could add a butterfly fish in hopes that they would eat them. In the long term... you could just keep them trimmed back until something else filled out the space around them; so you'd still have some, just a very small amount.
 
Don't ever rinse zoas in hot water to kill them. You could aerosolize the palytoxin and cause you and everyone in the house to get very sick (it's happened!). And mass killing them in the tank can also release the toxins and kill your tank. Your best bet would be to take out the rock and give it a bath in bleach mixed with water (the bleach neuralizes palytoxin), but put it outside to be safe and make sure no one or no animal can get to it. You could also try covering them with a glue or epoxy as mentioned, that might be ok in the tank.
 
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Getting rid of a colony myself tonight! LOL
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You could try feeding them AiptasiaX.
 
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I had similar prob and a few times a week shut flow off and dose one full Apastia X on what it covered and let it sit for a little while then turn flow back on. Took a little over a month but I back them out without a major kill and not risking life and limb taking them out of the tank. Be careful with that stuff, very dangerous to be handiling with hot water especially.
 
I once had some ugly brown palys that were growing like crazy. If you can take the rock out, it should be fairly easy to remove them. Get some latex gloves (to protect against the toxins), eye glasses would be smart too. Then take a razor blade and just scrape them off, make sure you get the mat they grow from. It works best if youre scraping at the rock beneath the zoa mat. I was successful in removing a colony this way and they haven't grown back.
 
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I've been through this before with pink & golds and green implosions. I kind of like them, but not hundreds of them. Manual peeling/scraping works temporarily, but not completely. I've given some away, but always with the warning that they can take over if not careful. I've usually ended up taking the whole rock out and setting outside in the far back corner of my yard to get some sun. A year later the rock will still look nasty and will only be useable after a good acid bath.
 
You can take them out using a little glob of kalkwasser right on the head of palys growing where you don't want them. I wouldn't recommend doing that on a whole colony, but if you just want to keep them in check, that will work.

Be careful with those.
 
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I have had the same problem with some pallets that overgrow a lot of the rocks. I've been using a concentrated Caguas her and injecting it into the colony. Works fast, but you just have to make sure that your pH doesn't skyrocket
 
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Sorry...a lot of typos. Use kalkwasser paste. Works like a charm. U just need to watch your pH and use a needle and syringe to inject into the flesh of the colony.
 
rompininphx said:
I once had some ugly brown palys that were growing like crazy. If you can take the rock out, it should be fairly easy to remove them. Get some latex gloves (to protect against the toxins), eye glasses would be smart too. Then take a razor blade and just scrape them off, make sure you get the mat they grow from. It works best if youre scraping at the rock beneath the zoa mat. I was successful in removing a colony this way and they haven't grown back.[/QUOT

Kalk is safer
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