mothership Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 A big thanks for helping me identify my hitchhiker pom pom crab. Now that I'm part of the community I have another question that has been bugging me lately. A little while ago I got a small colony of green and orange zoanthids that I attached to a peice of 6 lbs peice of live rock. Now the rock has a smooth surface and recently the zoanthids have been growing like crazy. I also upgraded my lights during this time as I've now have some sps corals that required better light, but my zoas are growing outward on this rock at about 0.5 to 1 cm a week. If left alone these will spread to my other rocks (which I don't want) but I've heard they're also toxic to other corals. Since I've started to have more sps and lps in my tank I've heard that you shouldn't be mixing hard corals and soft corals, so I'm wondering how do I manage to halt the growth or slow it down. Do I just scrape off the zoas (but releasing toxins in the tank at the same time) or do I have to get a new rock and find a new home for these zoanthids? Thanks again, mothership Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegrandpoohbah Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Frag them and sell or trade with other reefers. I had a friend in Vancouver with a large reef tank. He was able to make his car payments every month by selling coral frags. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mothership Posted October 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 So the question is, how do I frag zoanthids? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murminator Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 Just take a razor blade after them and hack them off and crazy glue them to a piece of LR....but wear gloves they are toxic I bought a new set of metal halides by selling off fugly brown zoo frags :thumbs: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thegrandpoohbah Posted October 30, 2008 Report Share Posted October 30, 2008 So the question is, how do I frag zoanthids? There's a bunch of articles here: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=22075. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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