Pocillopora take over

[1fishkeeper]

So it looks like my green birds nest decided to bail out or spawn. Now I have 50 little ones growing all over in my tank. I even have them growing on snails. I was wondering if I could use a little kalk paste to try and kill them off a little at a time? What have others done when this has happened to you? Here are a few really bad pictures taken with my old phone. As you can see the small green birds nests in the pictures I even have them on my overflow.

 

[1fishkeeper]

 

[Minifoot77]

Pop them off and mount them on frag plugs so you can sell or trade to the lfs...

 

[1fishkeeper]

Pop them off and mount them on frag plugs so you can sell or trade to the lfs...

I wish I could but most of them are growing in cracks and crevasses that there is no way I can pop them off. Now the ones on the overflow I could.

 

[Matt L]

I let them grow out a little until I can prune it all off with bone cutters. If on the glass, I gently scrape off with a razor blade.

 

[bobnicaragua]

You can turn off the flow and hit them with kalk or epoxy puddy over them.

 

[1fishkeeper]

You can turn off the flow and hit them with kalk or epoxy puddy over them.

That is what I was thinking about doing to the ones that there is no way of getting cut off or the base of the ones I have cut off to put on frag plugs.

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

I have them in my tank despite never having this coral in this system. I only have three of them and i was able to relocate them to an area of the tank where i wanted them. I plan to let them grow until they become a problem. For me, I'll pretty much take anything that wants to grow! lol