I hate these zoas!

Texas Reefer · Mar 8, 2017

These zoas, or paly, are taking over my tank. A friend of mine gave me a few a few years ago when I was starting out and now they are trying to cover everything! I am thinking of moving most of my other zoas, los, whatever I need to, to a frag tank, and adding a matted file fish to the display. Hopefully he will eat the "Texas Trash". What do y'all think?

Bosko777 · Mar 8, 2017

Looks like you know what your doing. Looks great to me. Not sure how to get rid of the zoas though.

cmcoker · Mar 8, 2017

Hmm I don't know if anything will eat them. Personally I'd pull the rocks, are all the closed up ones texas trash too?

My first thought was actually "with friends like that..." haha

Texas Reefer · Mar 8, 2017

Yeah, all the closed ones are TT. Can you even see the Red Planet?
I'm worried about pulling the rocks. A) The rocks have other things on them, B) I think these palys have alot of palytoxin in them, so the least I handle them the better.

cmcoker · Mar 8, 2017

Texas Reefer said:
Yeah, all the closed ones are TT. Can you even see the Red Planet?
I'm worried about pulling the rocks. A) The rocks have other things on them, B) I think these palys have alot of palytoxin in them, so the least I handle them the better.

Yeah that's why I didn't recommend removing them or kalk paste or smothering them or anything. Seems like the uglier they are the more toxic they are....
It it was me, I would frag everything I want off the rock, while wearing gloves and a face splash shield outside around no other people/animals. Put rock in bucket, put a lid on it, and let it all dry out. Muriatic acid may be something to consider if you want to keep the rock, but I'd be concerned about aerosolizing the toxin...
Oh and yeah can see the red Planet since you pointed it out, I bet the palys will over grow it if given the chance