Removing green Zoos

[Don Geddis]

I got a rock with some nice green button polyps (Zoanthus sociatus)
http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#greenbutton
I was hoping they would grow and spread.

Now, a year later, they seem to be like weeds. They've taken over half my
tank, and grown over all the nearby live rock.

I'd like to prune them back, but I don't know how. I took a knife to the edge
of the mat base, but it seems really well attached to the live rock that it's
grown over. I wound up just shredding parts of the coral and fouling my water,
rather than removing anything.

Short of taking down my tank, removing the live rock, and killing everything
by submersing it in fresh water, do any of you have suggestions for how to
contain and/or prune back some out of control Zoo polyps?

Thanks,

-- Don
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Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/
I guess one of my pet peeves is that sometimes I have no idea what people are
talking about.
-- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey [1999]

[ROBIN GORDON]

mine keeps breaking off the main rock and slowly attaching themselves to
neighbouring rocks so I imagine that fragging them and perhaps selling them
on. turn a nuisance into a small money making opportunity.
you must be doing something right for them to propagate so well. so well
done.

Robin

[Marc Levenson]

Don,

You need to go join zoosrus.com (zoos - r - us) and offer to sell those bad boys.
I know a lot of those zoo fiends love them and will pay for them, including the
rock they are on.

You can break up the live rock in smaller chunks. You might even take in some as
store credit at the LFS, but you'll never break even with them.

I've seen people peel zoos off the rockwork, or use a razor blade to cut the mat
and coralline algae of the LR, then glue the frag to pebbles.

Marc


Don Geddis wrote:

> I got a rock with some nice green button polyps (Zoanthus sociatus)
> http://reef.geddis.org/life.html#greenbutton
> I was hoping they would grow and spread.
>
> Now, a year later, they seem to be like weeds. They've taken over half my
> tank, and grown over all the nearby live rock.
>
> I'd like to prune them back, but I don't know how. I took a knife to the edge
> of the mat base, but it seems really well attached to the live rock that it's
> grown over. I wound up just shredding parts of the coral and fouling my water,
> rather than removing anything.
>
> Short of taking down my tank, removing the live rock, and killing everything
> by submersing it in fresh water, do any of you have suggestions for how to
> contain and/or prune back some out of control Zoo polyps?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Don
> __________________________________________________ _____________________________
> Don Geddis http://reef.geddis.org/
> I guess one of my pet peeves is that sometimes I have no idea what people are
> talking about.
> -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey [1999]

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