Palythoas creeping on euphyllia?

[Fred2482]

Great looking hitchhikers until they started scaring me a bit. Should I worry about either the Palys or Euphyllia?

 

[S.Pepper]

I'd like to know, too. I thought the hammer would sting the paly and keep them at bay.

 

[flsalty]

I've seen people say the hammer will keep them at bay and others say the palys will keep on growing.

 

[S.Pepper]

I've seen people say the hammer will keep them at bay and others say the palys will keep on growing.

I guess i'll find out. I have a torch on one side of a big rock and a hammer on the other side. The idea was to keep the zoas/palys within that area of the rock. It doesn't look like the hammer is having much effect on the paly.

 

[Gareth elliott]

Palys will keep growing. Those sweeper tentacles of the hammer are 6-8” long they have been hit for awhile if already that high up. Could try getting the palys to start growing on something else, lean something like a frag disc so toiching their base. Should overtime start to move onto it. After you have some heads in the disc place where you want them. Then. Take the hammer out and with gloves, goggles and an xacto knife get rid the others. Can try to frag these too by placing in an an upside down clear cup with frag plugs.

 

[S.Pepper]

Palys will keep growing. Could try getting the palys to start growing on something else, lean something like a frag disc so toiching their base. Should overtime start to move onto it. After you have some heads in the disc place where you want them. Then. Take the hammer out and with gloves, goggles and an xacto knife get rid the others. Can try to frag these too by placing in an an upside down clear cup with frag plugs.

Will palys do the same with a torch coral? thx

 

[Gareth elliott]

Will palys do the same with a torch coral? thx

Torches can be a bit more active in stinging, but really depends on the two corals. If the palys start creeping inside the sweeper tentacle range more and more, safe to say the palys will eventually win.

 

[S.Pepper]

Torches can be a bit more active in stinging, but really depends on the two corals. If the palys start creeping inside the sweeper tentacle range more and more, safe to say the palys will eventually win.

thanks. I am going to have to rethink how I am going to place the 14 frags i have acclimating to my lights--5 of those being paly/zoas.

 

[Gareth elliott]

My torch is a tonga torch and my hammer a frag of an indo. Luckily they have gotten along together torches can be iffy in euphylia gardens. Zoas and palys all have varying growth rates. If can look up which ones you got and how fast they grow can arrange with the fastest on an island, slow nearer each other. Will buy you time for needing to trim.
Mind you mileage varies tank to tank. One tank one maybe a weed grower, another a new head only every 3 months.

 

[Phil D.]

The Palys will overgrow. You can get Red Sea Aiptasia-X and put a line of it along where the palys are growing and it will kill them off for a few months.

 

[Fred2482]

The Palys will overgrow. You can get Red Sea Aiptasia-X and put a line of it along where the palys are growing and it will kill them off for a few months.

Thanks. As they were hitchhikers, they have only grown on the hammer itself.