Pocillopora settling on glass

[Luiz Rocha]

Hey all, I have a couple of Pocillopora colonies in my 28g cube tank, and one of them (the pink one) seems to have spawned because I am noticing small colonies (3-4 polyps) showing up around the tank. This is a good thing I guess, but the problem is that those new colonies and on the glass! They are growing over some coralline algae. So, what do you guys do in that situation? Let it grow a little larger and then remove from glass and put somewhere else on the tank?

Thanks!

 

[flyyyguy]

In a few months or so, when you truly realize the scope of what just happened, you are going to wish they were truly only on just the glass where you can easily get to them

You really dont want to be wanting to find a place in your tank for the ones you scrape off the glass. You got that pretty well covered already. lol

 

[smtank]

In a few months or so, when you truly realize the scope of what just happened, you are going to wish they were truly only on just the glass where you can easily get to them

You really dont want to be wanting to find a place in your tank for the ones you scrape off the glass. You got that pretty well covered already. lol

+1, you will probably have more pocillopora then you ever wanted, it is not a nice coral when is spawns, especially not in a small tank.

 

[Luiz Rocha]

Ah crap, is there anything that I can do to slow it down? So far I have only noticed 3 small colonies on the glass, nothing on rocks yet, but if they are on the glass I am sure they are there too...

 

[reefrick.M]

I am still feeling the effects of mine spawning. It's been nothing short of a nightmare. The mother colony has been removed for about a year and a half now but... it continues to pop up everywhere even on the sides of my clams. First I tried kalk paste and now I went thru two and a half tubes of JB Water Weld putty(skimmer went nuts) trying to cover all the little mini colonies that keep popping up everywhere. They just wont die :furious:, it even pops out thru the putty sometimes. With a combo of putty and kalk paste I'm starting to get the upper hand but do your self a favor and kill it now before it's to late :eek2:

 

[ousnakebyte]

I let it go for a while in my 120, and it encrusted almost the entire back wall. In some places it gave nice texture and three dimensional structure. But... as others have said, it just became too much of a pain - settling next to that slow-growing pricey whatchamajigger with pedigree lineage and whatnot... So, I waged war on it.

There is nothing you can do - that I know of - to keep it from spawning - at least nothing that would also likely be detrimental to your other corals. You can use a razor place to scrape it off the glass and kalk paste or epoxy to kill off the recruits.

Cheers
Mike

 

[ousnakebyte]

I am still feeling the effects of mine spawning. It's been nothing short of a nightmare. The mother colony has been removed for about a year and a half now but... it continues to pop up everywhere even on the sides of my clams. First I tried kalk paste and now I went thru two and a half tubes of JB Water Weld putty(skimmer went nuts) trying to cover all the little mini colonies that keep popping up everywhere. They just wont die :furious:, it even pops out thru the putty sometimes. With a combo of putty and kalk paste I'm starting to get the upper hand but do your self a favor and kill it now before it's to late :eek2:

Agree. You have to admire its resilience... :mad2: I have found that if I drizzle kalk paste over a branching recruit, the top sides of the colony will die off but the undersides of the recruit will continue chugging along and resheet over the dead skeleton...