Nuisance palys
 

Without removing rock, what is the best way to remove nuisance palys? I have a ton of them and they are starting to take over some of my rock.

Pretty much anything that will kill your palys will make your water parameters go nuts. Even if the treatment is reef-safe, a bunch of melting palys will not be good for your water quality.

Your going to either have to take the rock out or learn to love them:)

majestic angel

Aptesia x seems to take care of palys too :)

How many nuisance palys are we talking about here??

I removed some with ease, do this out of the tank.... I used tweezers and ripped them off... Depending on the paly some are easier than others. I had a zoa frag that had 8 green/brown palys mixed in. Ripped them off easily because they have a tough outer skin... Be sure to wear eye protection.

If that doesn't work throw the paly rock in your sump or refuge and replace with new rock in the display...

Probably close to 200 I want to get rid of.

Ya take out your rocks. It will have babies everywhere else and will pop up again if you dont address it now.

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Lots of nonsense talk about palytoxin poisoning on here. I thought it was just a bunch of crap. Well I knocked a bunch of palys down over a month ago by scraping off with a paring knife. No gloves or any protection at all. Long story short, 10 mins after I was done I was extremely sick for 3 weeks. All my symptoms lead to palytoxin poisoning. So please be careful.

It's always the ugliest ones that spread like the plague. Also more likely to cause issues with regards to toxins. Mine were a nasty brown green and I went nuts with a knife and tooth brush for an hour. The submerged arm was on fire for a week and I had sores that bled too. I think scrubbing and scraping with long gloves and eyewear might just work. I would do small patches each day and siphon out the junk if you can.

Epoxy mat or cover them with something no light no paly takes a while to bleach but they wont last.

I have noticed my frogspawn and galaxy corals get hammered when I try to remove palys in the tank with a few healthy heads of frogspawn actually dieing. Scraping them or pulling them off causes them to release mucus which contains the toxin. I removed rock and sat it in a salt bucket of freshwater with a lid thinking they would die and rot away - but some looked like they were still alive after a month in the dark. Leaving the rock in the sun for a few days definitely killed the palys but also bleached the rock and turned it into dead rock.

Lately, I have been injecting the remaining polyps with a syringe full of Kalkwasser in solution - this seems to prevent them from sliming.

way one take rocks out
way two cut the rock under them
way three get a fish that eats them
way 4 aptisa x or leamon juise


what not to do scrub or peel them scrubbing will get the paly toxin every where and mess your water up so will peeling if your talking about texas trash palys

they dont peel well they rip and leave pieces behind