Blundell Buttons spreading in the club?

Hi, I've always been curious about these, I saw talk about them a while back on the forum that these were being spread around the club, I havent actually seen one in real life just the pictures on the forum and was wondering if people were still spreading them or if anyone woould let me buy one or two from them to add to my reef, is there anyone with a fraggable colony?

-Bryce

Awesome! I'd greatly appreciate it! I'll definately remind you.

I must've missed them, I think it may of been that I had no idea what they were till recently when people were talking about them on the forum. In my experience so far I've had good luck with slow growing buttons by carefully target feeding them and adgitating the mouth to get them to close over the food when it's light food, they usually always consume the food, I've noticed massive growth acceleration since I've started doing that with the polyps in my tank I have now, I feed them an assortment of mixed foods I prepare for them, I'm curious to see how this method will work with Blundell Buttons.

from my experience with buttons thats usually been the case when I cut a polyp off a colony, the base left on the colony forms a new head and the cut polyp has no problems, I havent lost one yet by doing that.

I ususally pull the whole colony out into a seperate container of water, cut off the heads I want then attatch them to rocks and place them and the original colony back in the tank then dump the container's water down the drain, by then it's an extremely smelly toxic soup

They usually don't cause problems in the tank, but I guess they could if you cut masses of them.

The Paly toxin in poisonous though and if you get it in a cut or in your mouth it could make you VERY sick.  It may also be possible for it to enter through your skin, (I don't know this for sure, but there's no reason not to be cautious.)

For what it's worth I've tried killing my Protopalythoas by cutting them off the rock and never been successful.  They keep growning back.  Lets hope the Blundell buttons are as hard to kill as these.  No one will ever lose them.

For the newbies in the group, what is the full name of the paly that can make a person sick? 

Amie wrote: I'd like to cut one of mine off to give to a friend.  Can I just cut it at the base and put it in a cup with rocks to see if it will attach?  Will a new button grow where I cut the top off?

Cut BB's actually stay stuck with Gel Superglue / Zapgel.

doing anything to get the toxin outside of them like pissing them off enough or really pissing them off by cutting them then letting it get into a cut on your hand, pretty much if you've got a cut on your hand while your working with them or staying in contact with it long enough to absorb into your skin, I wouldn't worry too much about it unless your cutting a large ammount of paly's at a time or cutting a palythoa tuberculosa colony (i've seen a few of those in some member's tanks). I've also heard of people getting splashed in the eyes and having to deal with weeks of pain and needing special eye drops.


Edited by aquablue

I love how they look but the toxicity issue is scary, but whats really scary as I have a colony of wild paly's that look almost identical to this.

[Palythoa toxica]