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11/25/2017, 09:26 PM | #1 |
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Zoanthid removal
So I have some nice polyps that showed up in some rock rubble stuff I bought, they're on a huge empty shell. Wedged them nicely in a spot I liked and a couple weeks ago they went mobile... seems a hermit somehow crawled in between the rock and took up residence in their shell. LOL... It's cool watching them traverse all over the tank for a couple weeks but I'm a bit concerned that hermit will eventually discard the shell behind the rocks and my hitchhiker zoa's will be lost. Thought about superglueing the shell to a rock and scatter some new hermit homes around it to encourage him to move out but there's also another unwanted polyp on that shell so might be a better option to peel them off. There's only two polyps so want to be careful.
Too long didn't read: Can they be peeled off the shell without harm? |
12/18/2017, 07:46 PM | #2 |
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They are probably kind of worthless zoas but you can use a razor blade to cut the bottom off like you are fragging then glue to frag plug. But you probably can find nicer looking ones for cheap with names
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12/18/2017, 07:47 PM | #3 |
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If it were me I wouldn’t go to the trouble
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12/18/2017, 08:33 PM | #4 |
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I usually use a razor blade or a bone cutter tool kind of like a wire cutter.
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12/20/2017, 09:04 PM | #5 |
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Thanks guys, sorry I didn't update but then the thread was like 3 weeks old with the replies so not entirely my fault.
So I simply used a butter knife and kept working the edge until it came up then peeled up with it and super glued them onto a rock. It only took a few hours until they opened up so didn't seem to stress them out too much. |
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