What eats elephant ear corals?

Hi all,
At the risk of being flamed for wanting to rid my tank of what some
might call a beautiful coral, I would like to know the best way to RID
my tank of elephant ears. I bought a small piece of rock with metallic
green xenias and within a week a small elephant ears started to grow. A
couple of months later I have an infestation of elephant ears and no
metter how I try to clean the rock they grow on, I cant seem to get rid
of them peminantly and wondered if anyone knows of a 'reef safe' fish,
or invertibrate that will do the job for me? If anyone does have any
suggestions please let me know if the elephant ears are the only things
they eat.

Thanks all

You are probably misidentifying what you have.

Do you have a picture or a description?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



wrote on 4/9/2006 2:28 PM:
Hi all,
At the risk of being flamed for wanting to rid my tank of what some
might call a beautiful coral, I would like to know the best way to RID
my tank of elephant ears. I bought a small piece of rock with metallic
green xenias and within a week a small elephant ears started to grow. A
couple of months later I have an infestation of elephant ears and no
metter how I try to clean the rock they grow on, I cant seem to get rid
of them peminantly and wondered if anyone knows of a 'reef safe' fish,
or invertibrate that will do the job for me? If anyone does have any
suggestions please let me know if the elephant ears are the only things
they eat.

Thanks all

wrote:
Hi all,
At the risk of being flamed for wanting to rid my tank of what some
might call a beautiful coral, I would like to know the best way to RID
my tank of elephant ears. I bought a small piece of rock with metallic
green xenias and within a week a small elephant ears started to grow. A
couple of months later I have an infestation of elephant ears and no
metter how I try to clean the rock they grow on, I cant seem to get rid
of them peminantly and wondered if anyone knows of a 'reef safe' fish,
or invertibrate that will do the job for me? If anyone does have any
suggestions please let me know if the elephant ears are the only things
they eat.

Thanks all

I don't know that an elephant ears is. If you could give us a pic we
might be able to help you out.

Kim

Thanks all.
I'll post some images when I got home from work tonight.

Right, back from work now!

Pic of the 'elephant ears' here

http://www.rhodesfamily.co.uk/google...ephantears.jpg

Yep, those are mushrooms. They don't look like elephant
ear mushrooms though, but either way, they are mushrooms,
and can be pulled off.

Also those look like green star polyps (pictures a bit
blurry), not xenia.

Hemostats are handy for pulling them off. You should be
able to rip them off, and then scrape off the remaining
foot. You should be able to do this by just not letting
them grow back to full size, but scrape off any that try
to grow back while they are still small.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



wrote on 4/11/2006 1:14 PM:
Right, back from work now!

Pic of the 'elephant ears' here

http://www.rhodesfamily.co.uk/google...ephantears.jpg

I've only been in the hobby a few years, and it sound like my LFS
doesn't know much more than me! I think Ill check-up on what he
sells in future!

I did try to remove them and they grew back, but if perseverance is the
only way, then I guess I'll have to perceiver!

Thanks for the advice. Right, where are my pliers?......