What are these palys called?..

[JFleur]

Title says it all

 

[T_BONE]

Hard to tell from the pic but if they look like these they are Nuclear Green Palys I believe.

 

[DarthSimon]

Super fast grower as well...

 

[T_BONE]

Super fast grower as well...

Yep. Mine multiply like crazy.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Green Tea cups, very similar to nuclear. Tea cups have longer edges.

 

[JFleur]

Hard to tell from the pic but if they look like these they are Nuclear Green Palys I believe.

They look just like these except much smaller and dont have the little white dots on the tips of the tentacles

 

[JFleur]

Super fast grower as well...

Ive had them for close to 2 months now and they haven't gotten any bigger, the biggest one thats in the pic is just recently started moving off its plug

 

[T_BONE]

Those tips may be just the way the pic was taken. Those are in my tank and with the lens I use it may have made it look like white tips. The largest of mine is about the size of a nickel if that helps.

 

[JFleur]

Those tips may be just the way the pic was taken. Those are in my tank and with the lens I use it may have made it look like white tips. The largest of mine is about the size of a nickel if that helps.

My biggest is maybe a little bigger that a dime

 

[JFleur]

I was also told to never handle them with bare hands because they are super poisonous.. didn't find this out till after i put then in my tank... idk if that matters or not

 

[W1ngz]

I was also told to never handle them with bare hands because they are super poisonous.. didn't find this out till after i put then in my tank... idk if that matters or not

They're not dangerous to have in the tank, they just tend to grow rapidly once they settle in. The danger is in mishandling them.

As a general rule, you should never handle any coral with bare hands. They are rare, but some palythoas are particularly toxic due to palytoxin which they emit when stressed or damaged. They can be handled safely with common sense precautions like gloves, paper mask and safety goggles. Keep them submerged if you have to cut them off rocks, as they can squirt liquid. Don't use hot water, don't spray or scrub them as this can render the toxin aerosol.

More education is needed in keeping corals..

I just noticed this news feed. It happened in the UK. Paly toxins are NO Joke. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/07/fish-tank-warning-family-hospitalised-unusual-poisoning-cleaning/amp/

www.reef2reef.com

 

[JFleur]

They're not dangerous to have in the tank, they just tend to grow rapidly once they settle in. The danger is in mishandling them.

As a general rule, you should never handle any coral with bare hands. They are rare, but some palythoas are particularly toxic due to palytoxin which they emit when stressed or damaged. They can be handled safely with common sense precautions like gloves, paper mask and safety goggles. Keep them submerged if you have to cut them off rocks, as they can squirt liquid. Don't use hot water, don't spray or scrub them as this can render the toxin aerosol.

More education is needed in keeping corals..

I just noticed this news feed. It happened in the UK. Paly toxins are NO Joke. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/07/fish-tank-warning-family-hospitalised-unusual-poisoning-cleaning/amp/

www.reef2reef.com

Thank you for the advice, i started using gloves anyway when sticking my hands in the tank because my female clown is relentless and just attacks non stop. Ill just need to figure out how to glue frags to rocks without gluing the latex to them aswell lol

 

[W1ngz]

Thank you for the advice, i started using gloves anyway when sticking my hands in the tank because my female clown is relentless and just attacks non stop. Ill just need to figure out how to glue frags to rocks without gluing the latex to them aswell lol

Fun trick with cyanoacrylate gel is that when you squirt it directly into water the outer layer cures right away into a skin around the bubble, which you can then handle and move where you want.

 

[JFleur]

Fun trick with cyanoacrylate gel is that when you squirt it directly into water the outer layer cures right away into a skin around the bubble, which you can then handle and move where you want.

Yup, looks like im relocating some stuff.... what would be the best way to get a butt load of glue off the bottom of a zoa colony frag? Its pretty heavy so i needed alot of glue to get it to stick to the rock, and now it just looks hideous.

 

[W1ngz]

Yup, looks like im relocating some stuff.... what would be the best way to get a butt load of glue off the bottom of a zoa colony frag? Its pretty heavy so i needed alot of glue to get it to stick to the rock, and now it just looks hideous.

The best way is patience. Eventually the coraline and zoas will overgrow it and you won't see it.

 

[DarthSimon]

So these were one of the first corals I bought back in 2005 when I started reefing. I think I bought a rock with about 15 polyps on it. I ended up with over 200 of them within a year.

 

[JFleur]

Yup, looks like im relocating some stuff.... what would be the best way to get a butt load of glue off the bottom of a zoa colony frag? Its pretty heavy so i needed alot of glue to get it to stick to the rock, and now it just looks hideous.

So these were one of the first corals I bought back in 2005 when I started reefing. I think I bought a rock with about 15 polyps on it. I ended up with over 200 of them within a year.
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[JFleur]

Ok cool, i definitely want at least one big rock covored, im going for a mixed tank build and if successful, my next tank will be a much much larger mixed tank