yellow polyp invasion

[rick17]

Hi everybody i have some yellow polyps that are infesting a zoo colonie can i kill them them the same way that you kill aptaisia whit a seringe and vinegar
thanks rick

 

[mfinn]

I'm assuming you mean, yellow colonial polyps?
You should be able to kill they, the same way as aptasia's.
I usually use a kalk paste or Joes Juice.

 

[Shade00]

I use a razor and scrape them off. I did this to help a pink paly colony survive recently.

 

[rick17]

thanks i'll be putting that on my list to do thing and put the yellow polyp rock somewhere it wont spread to other rocks

 

[aquarius77]

I have these guys takin over in my sump.... Its hard to belive but alot of people like them. I never realized what a few polyps could really turn into till i kept these things for about a year. I have a 4 pound rock completely covered, about 30 polyps still in the display tank, they are growing up the walls (and on my sandbed even) in my fuge, its crazy.
I am wanting to rid the display tank of them myself because they are starting to spread again and my real estate is limited. I hate to try and kill a coral but i think im going to follow along here because they are on a rock at the bottom of my stack.

has any one tried to get under these guys like you do zoas with an exacto and just peel them up?

 

[Shade00]

That's exactly what I do with them - the problem being that they generally don't have a mat like most zoos. You'll end up getting a lot of little single yellow polyps.

I scraped enough off one rock the other day that I could make two 4x2 colonies on new rocks - just superglued some of the larger pieces down. Made great trade-in pieces.