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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:10pm |
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So I have a bunch of green/brown ordinary palys in my tank that I don't want there anymore. They are on the large base layer rocks in my tank that I can't move with out everything coming down. They have crowded out my zoos and stung/crowded out favias and other corals as well. I have tried a thick kalk solution on them and a straight sodium bicarbinate solution with no luck. The only thing that has worked is a MajanoWand. I bought it to get rid of majanos and it worked amazing well on the majanos. It will eventually get rid of a paly but I have to zap it multiple times and there are so many it could be a monumentous challenge. Any ideas?
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Brian
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:14pm |
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How many are you taking about? I removed a large rock with many on it but it spread over to another rock , so to kill the 5 or 10 remaining i just injected them with lemon juice :)
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:20pm |
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probably a couple hundred on about 6-7 different large rocks with corals or anemones on them.
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:21pm |
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I tried the lemon juice on the majanoes and it didn't work but I have not tried with palys, I will give it a try
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:24pm |
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For me i sold the rock covered with them and it off set the pice of a new rock . I had that many and rather than kill em I sold them :) Its a pain but I wanted em gone....But i had no room to place corals etc on that rock .
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:29pm |
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 9:49pm |
Those are actually pretty, mine are more straggly almost a brown color that look like weeds. You can see in the pic near where the favia is receeded I have zapped them there and finally killed them off but it took 5-6 attempts.
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:34pm |
LOve the shrimp and what im seeing !!! heres an after shot of mine ...
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:36pm |
BTW i used lemon on aptasia trick is a needle and get it in the stem :)
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:38pm |
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Nice I love the aquascaping. Do you scrape your back wall, I don't see any coralline algae there. Very nice tank.
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Posted: April 16 2012 at 10:44pm |
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I killed the coraline that was great when i removed all rock to catch a pesky Damsel, so its white now and this tank is only 6 months old so new growth kills me as others have tons and are newer but i have no algae .....
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