Brown Button Polyp Elimination Suggestions

[Randrew215]

About a week and a half ago I blasted a colony of brown button polyps in the first wave of an effort to stop owning brown corals. Last week I went in for a second round. Both times I used Aiptasia-X. I was going to kalk paste, but I was also hitting a couple of surviving mojano anemones that have proven very susceptible to the former. Today, button polyp colony is back at about 90% strength of what it was originally. It's like a hydra. Little heads just keep surfacing and expanding.
Should I just keep repeating, maybe switching to kalk since it is less expensive, for the next several weeks until they are decimated, or is there a better option? I can't, or at least really don't want to, remove the rocks. I don't mind waging this slow war if people think that the current strategy will work. Suggestions?
-Andy

 

[tent boy]

I tried everything to get rid of palys and didnt have any luck. Kalk had not effect. They just came back. Time to rearrange the landscape. Thats the only way to get them out in my experience. Sorry I dont have better news for you.

 

[Randrew215]

Hmm...that's bad news. Well, I guess I'm going to aggressively kalk them anyway and if that doesn't work I'll take out the rocks and torch them. The bastards are on at least four large rocks. Thank you for the input. I'll report of my success once attained.
-Andy

 

[reefboarder]

Same here I had to take mine out and left them in a tank with no light for almost 4 months. when they start to die off they can be easily removed from the rock, or at least mine were. but nevertheless they proved difficult to remove.

 

[naprestsleep]

I have been told to cover them with the epoxy putty for securing coral frags. Make a pancake of it and cover them. You can leave it to get encrusted with coraline algae or remove after a while.

I have not tried this yet...

 

[Randrew215]

That's a great idea. I have some epoxy putty laying around. I'll try it out tomorrow.