Stinking coral keeps coming back!!!!

[Llyod276]

Look at this newly pronounced weed and nuisance!!!
Before it was a single polyp and it was shading the other orange something or other sps. So I cut it at its base and look! I'm rewarded with three polyps! Talk about a will to live.

The second pic is a colony that was previously installed not related directly to the miscreant. But same thing. And yes that is a home grown colony. Started with just 3 polyps on a frag which I gave to my buddy and hes slowly killing it.

 

[dedragon]

use a thick paste of kalkwasser, shut off the pumps and paste it on with a turkey baster

 

[dedragon]

monitor alkalinity too because i dont know the size of the tank

 

[Llyod276]

75g and aliklinty last I checked was low, so I added buffer and it seems good, I'll retest it Sunday. My calcium is through the roof. I'm talking over 520ppm, no dosing. I'm running off a well not rodi. There is a huge move and upgrade coming up next month to move tank upgrade sump/fuge, equipment. So I'm kinda scared. But it has to be done. This is iirritating me to no end. Stupid 20g sump. Right now the tank is running and everything is happy. So of course I have to go and duck with it.

 

[dedragon]

gotcha in that case do it when it is out of the water during the move with kalkwasser or just take a flame torch and burn em off

 

[Mike from TN]

I’d be real careful burning with a torch. Palytoxin goes aerosol when burned.

 

[Llyod276]

Yup, plus the other coral its cohabitating.

 

[DaneGer21]

Cut it out, put putty over top. I’ve done it A LOT

 

[Llyod276]

Parameter result for calcium and dkh. 320 and 180 respectively.