bad zoos in the middle of good zoos

[MikeyBoy]

You Zoo experts, chime in here.....


Here is a pic of a rock covered in some cool yellow and orange zoos.

Problem is, these ugly plain while ones are coming in.
The seem larger, maybe even Paly's.


Is my only recourse to try and pic the bad from the good.
I had two polyps grow on another rock and I just pulled them off because it was easy because they had much larger, longer stalks......


Advice?

[don-n-sa]

ohh man get those out of your tank they will spread everywhere!!!!...they are killing the worlds reefs and if you don't get them under control they might spread and infest your living room, then your kitchen, then oh man then your bedroom. :blink


Maybe you could use a syringe and spot zapp them...not sure what to put in the syringe though.

[Tim Marvin]

I would take out the rock and pick them off, rinse the rock well with saltwater and put it back in. You may have to do this a few times to rid the rock of them. Don't let them continue on, they are very aggressive growing zoo.

[aquadoc]

I agree, I would use a knife or some thing of that natur and actualy scrap them off.
Don't worry about killing any other zoos around, because it is worth sacrificing a few for the whole colony.
If you do not do it, the other zoos will.

[obtusewit]

The white 'zoos' are actually a Paly...they are currently a huge concern on the Palancar reef system in Cozumel and the surrounding area... from 1996 to present they have grown from 0 to approx 3% of total reef coverage. In some areas coverage is almost 100%...everybody grab a sack full of kalk syringes and lets go save the reef!..they are bad news...nuke 'em

[MikeyBoy]

Thanks everyone............just as I suspected..........
It started with just one, now about 20.....

[brewercm]

If you have a pair of hemostats (Ithink is what they are called) they work great for things like this. I have a pair and you can lock them down on the problem area and usually pull the whole piece off of the rock without bothering the surrounding areas.

[Jenn]

Can this be done in the water? I have the same problem and seem to remember at the meeting at the YMCA in N. Austin a while back, Greg & Tim spoke about removing these - I thought they said that the toxins they release could infect the entire tank???

I have had these growing for a while and have been too scared to mess with them. I really want them out because they are ugly and they hurt like crap when I accidentally brush up against them while doing maintenance!!!!

[aquadoc]

I do them under or out of water.
It realy doesn't matter. I would personaly take them out of the water.
Zoos can handle being out of the water for a couple of minutes, I do not think that you would have a problem.
If you do do them in the tank I would simply run some carbon, to help remove any toxins that the zoos might let out.
Kill them all, you will not regreat it.