Help save my cyphastrea from my lobo

[W0terMoist]

Woke up this morning to see my cyphastrea colony fallen onto my lobo. How do I separate the two without harming the lobo?

 

[Cell]

Just pull them apart. Looks like the Lobo is eating it.

 

[brandon429]

raking a razor is nice because it doesn't pull back on the internal attachments within the coral polyp/mesentery anchors

reef surgery with a razor

they will heal up from the cut, then put the other coral back in place

 

[W0terMoist]

raking a razor is nice because it doesn't pull back on the internal attachments within the coral polyp/mesentery anchors

reef surgery with a razor

they will heal up from the cut, then put the other coral back in place

That worked great only needed one light pass with the razor. 10 minutes after I posted this the lobo already detached half of itself from it. I guess the lights being on helped out.

 

[exnisstech]

Gotta love a hungry lobo. I freaked out the first time I saw this on my tank.

 

[W0terMoist]

Gotta love a hungry lobo. I freaked out the first time I saw this on my tank.

Oh yeah. When I first got my lobo I placed it a bit too close to one of my chalices. And bam, a years worth of growth lost over night.

 

[thamnasteroid]

That's an Acanthastrea pachysepta, not a Lobophyllia; they do that sometimes.