question on moving a Yuma that I just got.

[merkurmaniac]

I bought a Yuma, its pretty bright green color. More exactly, I bought an aptasia infested rock, with a yuma on it. Can I just cut the yuma loose, and dump the rock ? Anything special that I need to do ? This is my first Yuma, and I am guessing that it has a foot structure like my other mushrooms, that is a flat petal on top, with a slender trunk that attaches to the rock ?

Any advice ?

TIA,
Richard

 

[Tallinu]

You can cut it free but you need to be careful. What I do is take a brand new utility blade and put it in a solid bulky drywall knife with a good grip. Get yourself a container with tank water for dunking your rock in to keep it wet and the coral in good shape. When ready, you can with careful pressure cut the rock with the knife. You do not want to slip and cut yourself or the Yuma so take time. Some rocks are so soft you can slice them thin and just glue the shaving the yuma is on to a frag plug. Sometimes you have to work at it a bit. If you try this be safe and slow and deliberate.

 

[merkurmaniac]

I went about nuking the aptasia with some Joes Juice that I bought. I also decided to try and move the Yuma, by scraping the margins of it with a credit card and see if it would let go. It did not. I didn't want to damage it, so I gave up. I'll monitor the aptasia, and probably introduce the whole rock.

 

[merkurmaniac]

Oh, there are also two tiny little Yuma babies on that rock, so they are reason number 2 and 3 for not abandoning the rock altogether.

 

[merkurmaniac]

Well, I dreamt about it, and that morning, after I got ready for work, I took that rock into the garage and, using a pair of craftsman screwdrivers and a hammer, I liberated that Yuma from it aptasia infested rock. Its happily sitting in my tank now. The two baby yumas got kinda torn up when I removed them, and then they ended up coming unglued from the frag disc I glued them to. I'll hopefully find them floating about.