Safest way to remove yellow polyps

[EddieW]

My yellow polyps are spreading nicely and in general they are going where I want them.

However, they are also going too close to some other corals and I want to trim them back along that side. As I cannot remove the rock what is the safest way to remove them?

I am thinking of vinyl gloves and holding the individual polyp and then slicing as close to the rock as possible, with plenty of fresh carbon and a new polyfilter to get rid of any nasties.

Does this sound about right? Or can anyone suggest a better way? I do have some Joes Juice so I _could_ use that on them if this would work.

TIA for any advice,
Eddie

[EddieW]

Anyone?

[dan-the-man]

Cutting would just frag them to somewhere else while the parent coral would just regrow.

Try some joes juice, if not kalk should work :)

HTH
Dan

[EddieW]

Thanks Dan - Got my Joes Juice, now all I need to do is try and find the syringe...

Cheers, Eddie

[reefer_rob]

Another method would be to scrape underneath the polyps with a razor blade so that you remove a thin layer of rock and don't actually cut into the coral. These can then be super glued to another rock and placed somewhere else in the tank or traded/sold. This way, you are not killing the polyps and there is no chance of them growing back or spreading.

[EddieW]

Cheers Rob - will give that a try, only problem is that razor blades and my fingers usually go together too well.....