ChrisQ0904
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I'm in the process of breaking down one of my tanks and have a bit of zoas on my frag racks and glass. I was wondering what is a safe method to remove them so I can give everything a good clean?
Removing zoas from frag rack
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Just scrape them off. Like a credit card or glass scraper.
Try to do it underwater if you can, or wear eye protection.
Quite easy.
Try to do it underwater if you can, or wear eye protection.
Quite easy.
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I actually use a scalpel. Blade is real thin and it makes the job pretty easy. Definitely wear glasses and gloves if you have to have do it out of the water.
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Going to bump this to the greater #reefsquad community as the topic is a good one.
I'm going to have to, sooner than later, clean my frag tank up and have a good ~300 heads of armor of god zoa/palys all over the bottom glass and also inter-twined on my egg crate rack. Now in the past I am pretty sure these guys, when angry, are letting off some of that paly funk. I have a good deal of SPS large frags / mini colonies in the tank and want to plan as best I can to minimize any trouble for them given the water will most likely be full of funk, so to speak.
I plan on scraping the AOG's off with the plastic blade of my Kent glass scraper, or should I use the metal one? As well, I have a lot of 4" frag tiles that I plan on "transplanting" the AOG's onto so I can sell / get rid of them easier. Anyone that's scraped off a mass of them, do they pretty much peel off the glass like GSP? I figure throw some glue on the tile and just sort of stick them down in a few spots. The ones stuck all over the egg crate I'm honestly just debating giving away to someone as-is, I don't want to take that out of the water and try and pry them off.
In terms of PPE I plan on wearing goggles, gloves, a rubber smock and I'm going to borrow a half-mask respirator with an organics cartridge from my cousin. Again, I don't want any chances with these guys, honestly I just want them out of the tank altogether. For the aftermath, I'm going to get the ALK as bang on with my mix, have a 20 gallon tote ready and once they're removed / on the tiles, do a very large water change and run some heavy carbon for a few days.
Anyone see holes in my methodology?
I'm going to have to, sooner than later, clean my frag tank up and have a good ~300 heads of armor of god zoa/palys all over the bottom glass and also inter-twined on my egg crate rack. Now in the past I am pretty sure these guys, when angry, are letting off some of that paly funk. I have a good deal of SPS large frags / mini colonies in the tank and want to plan as best I can to minimize any trouble for them given the water will most likely be full of funk, so to speak.
I plan on scraping the AOG's off with the plastic blade of my Kent glass scraper, or should I use the metal one? As well, I have a lot of 4" frag tiles that I plan on "transplanting" the AOG's onto so I can sell / get rid of them easier. Anyone that's scraped off a mass of them, do they pretty much peel off the glass like GSP? I figure throw some glue on the tile and just sort of stick them down in a few spots. The ones stuck all over the egg crate I'm honestly just debating giving away to someone as-is, I don't want to take that out of the water and try and pry them off.
In terms of PPE I plan on wearing goggles, gloves, a rubber smock and I'm going to borrow a half-mask respirator with an organics cartridge from my cousin. Again, I don't want any chances with these guys, honestly I just want them out of the tank altogether. For the aftermath, I'm going to get the ALK as bang on with my mix, have a 20 gallon tote ready and once they're removed / on the tiles, do a very large water change and run some heavy carbon for a few days.
Anyone see holes in my methodology?
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I use egg crate epoxied to an old gyre magnet as a frag rack. Sometimes corals will grow out onto the egg crate. I have taken the other frags out of the rack and put them in a tray of tank water while I clean the egg crate rack. I use a small paring knife I confiscated from the kitchen as part of my permanent reefing tools kit. It's small enoigh that I can get inside the squares of the egg crate and cut zoas and other corals loose and then start a new frag plug.
