Target Killing Button Polyps?

[brandon2432]

I have some yellow polyps that are stinging some of my other corals. They spread pretty fast, does anyone know how to kill them without hurting my other coral? I tried injecting them with calcium no change. Any ideas?

 

[jayk198030]

yeah rub them ou
t. dont b a pus. rub them out. man!

 

[rickh]

I have used Joe's Juice, Lemon juice, hot water and NaOH. Most of the time they recover. This weekend I break out the Pickling Lime paste

I am sick of people responding with "frag and sell them". I am battling GSP in one tank and ugly morphed Zoas in another.

And don't tell me to boil my rocks!!!!!!!

 

[brandon2432]

I tried peeling them off but Im scared that they will fall some where else and spread more.lol

 

[Timbor]

You could try removing the offending colony, if it is on a separate rock. Otherwise, see if you can chisel or scrape off the stuff that has spread where it shouldn't.

If you remove it completely, it won't come back

 

[snorvich]

If you are trying to poison them, try the following: mix pickling lime or kalk, RO water, and glycerol until it is a thickish paste. Turn off all flow for 30 minutes while you use an old test kit syringe and gently cover them. After 30 minutes, you can resume flow. In a smallish tank, you may have to apply only to a little area at a time in order not to change pH

 

[BlastoEric1589]

injecting a iodine rich freshwater solution does the trick with me for aiptasias but you have to be careful not to use too much iodine.

 

[brandon2432]

Thank you for the tips. I will report results.

 

[Logzor]

aquamend + superglue over them for a month then remove aquamend (it should be easy to pop it off, it becomes pretty brittle).

 

[TheFishGuyLLC]

I've tried injecting them with bleach/water and even pure bleach. Don't bother repeating, it didn't work. I've taken to removing them individualy with a pair of hemostats. It's time consuming but it seems to do the job.

 

[rickh]

I would not try bleach or iodine!!!!

 

[sermech]

If you lived closer i would give you a gold spoted rabbit fish he loves Zoas, and button polyps.

 

[BlueTangarang]

I concur, try to stay away from bleach or iodine. This pickling lime has me interested. What exactly is it?

Another method I've seen is to use other corals to block them out or over-shade them and they slowly die off. Big leathers can do the trick or, if you can, turn the rock over and starve them. Last result, of coarse.

 

[brandon2432]

Would they sting the leather like they did my sps?

 

[BlastoEric1589]

+1 gold spotted rabbitfish

i saw one tear apart $1000 in polyps and toadstools. lol.

its only funny because they werent mine

 

[DouglasTiede]

lol, a LFS here has a gold spotted rabbit fish for sale for $30.
I was wondering just how bad they are and now I know.

 

[BlueTangarang]

From what I've seen, the leather holds a stronger punch or at least can hold its own vs. button polyps. Using leathers is more for shading them out and having them die off from starvation.

 

[fourzero]

Pickling lime is kalkwasser. Synonym.

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14846946#post14846946 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BlueTangarang
I concur, try to stay away from bleach or iodine. This pickling lime has me interested. What exactly is it?

Another method I've seen is to use other corals to block them out or over-shade them and they slowly die off. Big leathers can do the trick or, if you can, turn the rock over and starve them. Last result, of coarse.

 

[barnett8]

Lemon juice works for me.

 

[rickh]

I have used Joe's Juice, Lemon juice, hot water and NaOH. Most of the time they recover. This weekend I break out the Pickling Lime paste

Well-- 14 days ago I treated some renegade Zoas and the deadly GSP with Pickling Lime. They shriveled up and looked bad, but they have not died. I ended up picking the Zoa polyps of with forceps. What a pain. R