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murder of button polyps Billy 07-16-2005
Posted by Billy on July 16, 2005, 11:36 pm
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See, I liked them originally. They were cute. Then they
started....spreading. And spreading. And spreading. It's become what
can only be termed an infestation, making very real for me the lesson
that European reefers call these little darlings 'pest anemones'.
I have tried mashing them. I have tried squirting them with Kalk.
I have tried covering them with rockwork, but they still seem to get
enough light to persist....tell me...how does one murder a colony of
button polyps?

And before you mention it, the rock they're taking over is close to
30 pounds, over a third of the total LR in the tank.

--
billy



Posted by Ray Martini on July 17, 2005, 2:27 pm
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Funny you should say that because I have button polyps and yellow colony
polyps and they just won't spread. I want them to a little but they just
don't. How long did it take them to start spreading?

One man's junk is another man's treasure!


> See, I liked them originally. They were cute. Then they
> started....spreading. And spreading. And spreading. It's become what can
> only be termed an infestation, making very real for me the lesson that
> European reefers call these little darlings 'pest anemones'.
> I have tried mashing them. I have tried squirting them with Kalk. I
> have tried covering them with rockwork, but they still seem to get enough
> light to persist....tell me...how does one murder a colony of button
> polyps?
>
> And before you mention it, the rock they're taking over is close to 30
> pounds, over a third of the total LR in the tank.
>
> --
> billy
>



Posted by Billy on July 17, 2005, 3:04 pm
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> Funny you should say that because I have button polyps and yellow
> colony polyps and they just won't spread. I want them to a little
> but they just don't. How long did it take them to start spreading?
>

They stayed sedentary for no more than a month. Now, I can't keep
them in one spot. As they are photosynthetic, perhaps light is the
key, but all I have is middle-o-the-road PowerCompact.
I already gave away the colonies that were on smaller pcs of LR,
and I'm left with the ones that spread onto the large hunks. After my
experience, it still seemed odd that they acted glad to get
them.....<g> I guess the bloke that gave me the 18" brittle star felt
the same way.......

billy



Posted by Mark Elliott on July 17, 2005, 4:15 pm
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I found yellow polyp needs feeding (quite a lot) to get it to spread.

Mark

> Funny you should say that because I have button polyps and yellow colony
> polyps and they just won't spread. I want them to a little but they just
> don't. How long did it take them to start spreading?
>
> One man's junk is another man's treasure!
>
>
>> See, I liked them originally. They were cute. Then they
>> started....spreading. And spreading. And spreading. It's become what can
>> only be termed an infestation, making very real for me the lesson that
>> European reefers call these little darlings 'pest anemones'.
>> I have tried mashing them. I have tried squirting them with Kalk. I
>> have tried covering them with rockwork, but they still seem to get enough
>> light to persist....tell me...how does one murder a colony of button
>> polyps?
>>
>> And before you mention it, the rock they're taking over is close to 30
>> pounds, over a third of the total LR in the tank.
>>
>> --
>> billy
>>
>
>



Posted by Pszemol on July 17, 2005, 4:20 pm
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> tell me...how does one murder a colony of button polyps?

The only way to do it is to peel them off the rock with some
wooden spatula. This way you will not destroy the tissue and
remove it as a whole thing. When not leaving any tissue
remainders on the rock you will solve your problem...

> And before you mention it, the rock they're taking over is
> close to 30 pounds, over a third of the total LR in the tank.

Too bad for you, but you have to take it out and peel them off.
Nobody said it will be easy to do - everything is trying to survive :-)


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