Paly Eradication
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ecotoxlady
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I think that green polyp is a button polyp in your picture which is good because they tend to be less invasive in my experience. My problem ones are protopalys just like yours. This is a bad picture of mine but it is the best I have because I am not a good photographer. You can see them mixing in with the bam-bams and on the rocks on the left by where the clown is are the patches I have been able to remove.
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Hey Rossco, Bring your pick and have at them...I don't have enough years left in this world to do it that way... but thanks for the suggestion... as you can see I let them get more than a little out of control.......
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I think that green polyp is a button polyp in your picture which is good because they tend to be less invasive in my experience. My problem ones are protopalys just like yours. This is a bad picture of mine but it is the best I have because I am not a good photographer. You can see them mixing in with the bam-bams and on the rocks on the left by where the clown is are the patches I have been able to remove.
I do have some of the green like yours but the others have crowded them out
ecotoxlady
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Hey Rossco, Bring your pick and have at them...I don't have enough years left in this world to do it that way... but thanks for the suggestion... as you can see I let them get more than a little out of control.......
WoW! If only you could get something that would eat these guys! That is more than I think can be manageable other than by extreme measures. I can tell these are large rocks they are on, but are there other corals living on them? If not, any chance you could remove them one rock at a time and either try killing them off by light deprivation or by scraping/chiseling?
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actually I have some nice zoa's still intermingled with them.... they were there first and then the growth explosion happened.... and it didn't help that after I lost my 8 year old Sailfin I had one huge algae bloom.... I waited too long to get a replacement and the PB just can't keep up.... but I'm getting it under control slowly
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Funny you say that..... Our's were "lost"...... wife "where's the shears I need to cup up a chicken for dinner" me "what shears...what do they look like...never seen them"...
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Crazy, just plain crazy. never seen anything like it.Hey Rossco, Bring your pick and have at them...I don't have enough years left in this world to do it that way... but thanks for the suggestion... as you can see I let them get more than a little out of control.......
Too bad PH or PPE didn't grow like that.
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I wouldn't say 'out of control' but rather, artist at work...Hey Rossco, Bring your pick and have at them...I don't have enough years left in this world to do it that way... but thanks for the suggestion... as you can see I let them get more than a little out of control.......
CRAZY MAN, just plain crazy.
mltascp
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LOL, My husband is lucky because I am into the aquariums as much as he is and I don't like to cook that much. I can't cut up chicken because I do not have any kitchen shears. Works for me!
We had an angel fish that ate those palys.
We had an angel fish that ate those palys.
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I'd like to borrow that angel......
but I still have some nice stuff that I don't want to lose and that is probably what it would eat.........
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I think that green polyp is a button polyp in your picture which is good because they tend to be less invasive in my experience. My problem ones are protopalys just like yours. This is a bad picture of mine but it is the best I have because I am not a good photographer. You can see them mixing in with the bam-bams and on the rocks on the left by where the clown is are the patches I have been able to remove.
I think these are the same as yours
Wow! Thats ginormous. I would recommend killing in sections rather than all at once, otherwise you may nuck your tank with the paste. When you Kalk the bases, be sure and keep your eye on the pH, thats a lot of kalk paste to intro all at one time, even if you only do a section at a time.
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no doubt.... and to say I procrastinated on this is an understatement.....they acutally looked nice under 20K's but I've gone back to 14K's as I like the look much better
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Well I'm having some luck clearing these off.... I have some clean spots and am trimming slowly.....I found it best to hold a fish net next to the rock and catch the heads in it rather than let them float away and heal up in another spot...
here's some close up's of the offenders... too bad they look kinda nice close up
here's some close up's of the offenders... too bad they look kinda nice close up
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macawmagic
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so...ur just cutting them off with scizzors and catching the heads in a net? what about the base or does that die?
I need to do some pruning myself. LOL
I need to do some pruning myself. LOL
