removing mushroom corals

[hikermike]

My tank is overly successful in growing mushroom corals and some are now overgrowing and smothering my zoas and
other corals and even a feather duster. How can I "encourage" them to move or relocate to another area.
(The feather duster had moved halfway across the tank and "jammed" itself between 2 rocks.) The mushrooms have even moved over my GSP's!

Thanks, Mike

 

[RiftRaftReefing]

Torch corals keep pretty much everything at bay or just buy a scalpel kit?

 

[Katze]

Hey !
You could use a scalpel to cut off the coral at the foot (as mentioned above) and then place it in an acclimation box w/ low flow+coarse aragonite/rock/sand for a few weeks until they grow a new foot. The foot left behind should be scraped off or they'll grow back. Then you could sell the coral, find a new place in you'r tank or ask you'r LFS about bringing the coral in for store credits, possibly swapping for a new kind of coral.
That would be the best, besides there isn't anything else, except changing the flow which would be messy and may not work at all.

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

I'm just curious; I assume discoma's? Which color?

 

[nano reef]

Do oyu have pics or names? EDIT sorry I see oyu are asking how to move them. Someone said torch. I have the same problem with some carzy fast growing green palys and mohicans, yellow palys with blue lashes . Will torch smother them out or how do I get rid of them? I tried peeling off rock but they release gooey stuff so don t know if thats a dangerous toxin!