How would you kill-off green button polyps

[seesick]

Last thing somebody would ask right!! Most of the time we're workin to keep stuff alive.. these polyps are like weeds pop all over my tank, they grow faster and faster.... I have inject with a needle KALK solution, and joe's juice. that didn't work. I have gone through hell took rocks out last year and scraped them off with a wire brush. Major prob. and now they're back all over again.

 

[Ntvper]

cut em off and ill meet u to pick em up. seriously i love those. and when done cutting them off the rock put some coral glue over the openings to keep them from coming back

 

[seesick]

That’s cool you can have all you can cut, but I don’t think that will get rid of them…

 

[Ntvper]

where u at i got a hobby knife somewhere and a sawzall in truck lol. it should after put coral glue or epoxy or even joes juice in holes from cut that should make em stop growing....lets try vinegar in those holes

 

[reign]

I am really doubtful that will get rid of all of them unless you cover every last part of every last one..they are anemones and we all know how majano and aiptasia are..Well at least it will get rid of most of them for a while!!

 

[Ntvper]

green polyps are anemones?

 

[seesick]

I am really doubtful that will get rid of all of them unless you cover every last part of every last one..they are anemones and we all know how majano and aiptasia are..Well at least it will get rid of most of them for a while!!

Ya I know maybe when you and k-fed come over you can bring a ½ stick of dynamite..LOL
I know after a few captains/cokes k-fed will be willing to light the fuze"¦.

 

[reign]

light the fuse hold it wave it around..We've got some newer stories about ole k-fed I dont know if he's told u?

 

[seesick]

green polyps are anemones?

Yup, check it out on-line you should be able to find something.
check Colonial Anemones
If Rigen said it. it's true he knows his saltwater eeerrr anything to do with any pet or anything you would find in a pet store eerrrr he knows everything about all of God's creatures"¦ think that will cover it"¦

 

[Gomer]

Not nems, but palythoa. Be careful. They have one of the deadliest toxins known. If you are cutting them etc, wear gloves and glasses (they can squirt).


Palys
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: Zoantharia
Family: Sphenopidae
Genus: Palythoa

Nems
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass: Hexacorallia
Order: Actiniaria
Suborders
Endocoelantheae
Nyantheae
Protantheae
Ptychodacteae

 

[Ntvper]

wow so wheres the mouth? i dont see a mouth on those. their supposed to have a mouth.

 

[kcooley]

sell the rock to your LFS and the price of clean live rock and they will sell it and make their money.

 

[Ntvper]

another thing, how the heck are ya supposed to tell the difference?

 

[Gomer]

wow so wheres the mouth? i dont see a mouth on those. their supposed to have a mouth.

Right in the middle.

 

[rivoth]

If they are anemones then you could at least have some fun keeping them at bay by electrocution.

http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1808040&highlight=mojano

 

[seesick]

sell the rock to your LFS and the price of clean live rock and they will sell it and make their money.

Yeah that is one of my main gripes is stinking LFS stores around here won't give out store credit. I have taken a number of coral including sum green button polyps and Southwest Reef Co in particular said that they didn't have room in any of their tanks right now. That was my final straw. Now I do not buy anything from them anymore. Then I took the button polyps over to Clarks and there was a nice blonde lady that used to manage the salt water section. She couldn't give me credit but took the coral on consignment. I came back three weeks later and she gave me some store credit very nice. I told her that I had other corals that I could bring if she liked. She said bring them in. When I brought them in I finally ran into the biggest idiot in the world. He goes by Dorius. There must be some power struggle there because he proceeded to tell me that the blonde lady did not have the authority to give store credit or buy things on consignment. The only thing I buy from Clarks anymore is salt and I make sure to come to the one in the heights so I do not have to see that douche Dorius. As soon as I can figure out how to get salt online at a reasonable price I am going that route instead. It makes me so mad that the fish stores around here do not support any club activities. Now they do not take corals or fish back for credit. Next there going to start charging to look at their tanks What are they good for anymore? They are just in it for themselves now and that's cool. I ordered my second and third vortex online. I bought my first one from Rob. A couple of weeks ago I even ordered a check valve online if you can believe that. It would have been so much easier to just go down to Robs and get it there instead, but I am not going to do it. sorry hit a nerve"¦I am done now.

 

[seesick]

Not nems, but palythoa. Be careful. They have one of the deadliest toxins known. If you are cutting them etc, wear gloves and glasses (they can squirt).

Yeah the toxins can make you hallucinate errr"¦. Kill you! It's bad news, just like anything if you respect it there is no problem..

 

[Ntvper]

yea i avoid clark's like the plague they dont know their **** from a hole in the ground. its like bipolar is a must for all employees. no disrespect for those who have this disorder. SWR never had any issues like that with them im sorry to hear that.

 

[Sea-men]

OMG sick on a rant in this case well deserved was with him @ south west that day.

 

[Ntvper]

man that must've been terrible (i know must've isnt a word). but i still like that store but i havent tried to pawn off coral n such. plus now they have more tanks so tell em they cant say no more room now and CJ said so lol.