Yellow polyp headache...

[mamagoose45]

I have a few yellow polyps in my nano that will not stay attached to anything. Yes, I know most people could do without them, but I think they're cool.

Originally they were on a shell, but kept getting algae under them and they'd peel right off. Once I got the algae issue under control, I glued them, they attached and I thought I had won the battle. I woke up this morning to find a few of them sitting on the other side of the sand bed by themselves, and the rest of them look like their ready to fall off the shell at any moment. The polyps are open and look fine.

Is there any good way to get these to attach to something? The only one that has attached is an original stragler that got loose in the tank and popped up on a piece of live rock a few days later... I want to try and keep them clumped together so that they don't just pop up everywhere and go crazy...

 

[SRT80]

mine do good by setting rubble around the main colony, they grow right onto it and the glass and anything it can touch. But I still have some polyps floatin around too.

Steve

 

[gflat65]

If it's low enough flow, just let them sit on some substrate for a week or so and they should attach. Then, glue the substrate to a rock and you should be in business. That's how I do softies that I'm too lazy to toothpick in, but I would think it would work here, too.

 

[Highside]

Put a shot glass in your tank, fill the bottom with rubble then drop in the polyp. The shot glass will keep them from blowing around in the tank and in about a week you can take it out.