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Hello,
This is my first thread so I have to start that way. I'm a forum lurker, aquaculture biologist, and coral keeper that is long overdue to join R2R. I have a bunch of coral in my 90 gallon that I'd like to get rid of. There are other corals next to all of these, so I need a good and safe way to kill parts of them without harming adjacent specimens or removing rocks (many are low in the structure). Selling is not an option for these unfortunately - they grow too fast! Here's what I'm looking to kill:
Mystic sunset Montipora
Yellow stone polyps
Palythoa
Zoanthus
Anthelia (been cutting it back with scissors)
John Deer Leptastrea
The John Deer has an unknown coral growing out of it that looks like a purple Leptastrea with a green center, but the polyps are a bit bigger. I'd rather grow that one out. Again, these are all next to other corals so torch/hydno are not options. I'm hesitant about aiptasia products too because I'm worried about it falling on the other corals. I've never used kalk paste, but I would probably need to use a lot over time so I'm concerned about that as well. I do have some epoxy though, and we sell JB weld at work. I've heard JB weld is okay in a reef tank, but I've never tried it.
Everything is in balance and I don't want to disrupt it at all. I know I have at leas a couple of species of copepods, plus I have amphipods, crabs, 9 species of gastropod (mostly snails, some breeding), and one of those blue photosynthetic sponges. The fish stocking density is low and there is never noticeable algae, except for coralline and some red bubble algae that mostly shows up on the powerheads.
Thanks in advance for the input!
This is my first thread so I have to start that way. I'm a forum lurker, aquaculture biologist, and coral keeper that is long overdue to join R2R. I have a bunch of coral in my 90 gallon that I'd like to get rid of. There are other corals next to all of these, so I need a good and safe way to kill parts of them without harming adjacent specimens or removing rocks (many are low in the structure). Selling is not an option for these unfortunately - they grow too fast! Here's what I'm looking to kill:
Mystic sunset Montipora
Yellow stone polyps
Palythoa
Zoanthus
Anthelia (been cutting it back with scissors)
John Deer Leptastrea
The John Deer has an unknown coral growing out of it that looks like a purple Leptastrea with a green center, but the polyps are a bit bigger. I'd rather grow that one out. Again, these are all next to other corals so torch/hydno are not options. I'm hesitant about aiptasia products too because I'm worried about it falling on the other corals. I've never used kalk paste, but I would probably need to use a lot over time so I'm concerned about that as well. I do have some epoxy though, and we sell JB weld at work. I've heard JB weld is okay in a reef tank, but I've never tried it.
Everything is in balance and I don't want to disrupt it at all. I know I have at leas a couple of species of copepods, plus I have amphipods, crabs, 9 species of gastropod (mostly snails, some breeding), and one of those blue photosynthetic sponges. The fish stocking density is low and there is never noticeable algae, except for coralline and some red bubble algae that mostly shows up on the powerheads.
Thanks in advance for the input!