elchopo
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Received this tank secondhand and I have had it for a few weeks and noticed these popped up? What are they? They looks like 3 different corals? But I am not sure. Please excuse the algae it's a work in progress!
What are these?
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AnotherReefHobbyist
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Two top ones look like palythoas, if they are then you want to be careful if you decide to remove them ( have hospitalized people by releasing toxins in the past ) some people are fine with keeping them though.
can’t tell what the bottom one is.
can’t tell what the bottom one is.
muzikalmatt
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Pretty sure all three are palythoa, the infamous Texas Trash Palys. These things spread like the plague and as you can probably tell are notoriously difficult to kill (hence why they survived on that rock and have popped up again).
I had the same thing happen in my first tank and they spread everywhere. I wish I had gotten rid of them when there were only a few of them. You can certainly keep them, but as I said they spread fast and don't look particularly good either. Not to mention they contain palytoxin.
Now that there are only three of them you can just remove them with tweezers during a water change, being sure to get them in the syphon as you remove them from the rockwork. It's also a good idea to run fresh carbon afterwards as you don't want any palytoxin in the water column if you can help it.
I had the same thing happen in my first tank and they spread everywhere. I wish I had gotten rid of them when there were only a few of them. You can certainly keep them, but as I said they spread fast and don't look particularly good either. Not to mention they contain palytoxin.
Now that there are only three of them you can just remove them with tweezers during a water change, being sure to get them in the syphon as you remove them from the rockwork. It's also a good idea to run fresh carbon afterwards as you don't want any palytoxin in the water column if you can help it.
