Cut Digitata?

[banditpowdercoat]

I have a plain brown Digi in the center of my tank, and he's grown quite large. Wondering can one just slice off the excess in the tank? he's on a main keystone rock that will be almost impossible to remove without complete tank upset

Atleast I think it's a Digi? Kinda softish skeleton. Not like Zoa's or mushrooms soft, But can bend him Kinda.
Can see him here in center of tank. Sorry bad pic

[xenon]

Yes. People frag SPS corals all the time.

Go ahead and snap off whatever you dont want.

[lastlight]

a digi would be hard and in most cases quite brittle. If the skeleton is soft at all you're not dealing with SPS?

[subman]

If you can bend it I don't think it's sps.
My guess is a leather

[Spyd]

+1. I think it is a finger leather. You can just slice it in the tank no problem and use an elastic band to attach it to a rock if you want to frag it. Run some carbon after you do it if you want to be on the safe side but you will be fine without it.

[banditpowdercoat]

OK Finger leather sounds more like it cause I've never had luck with SPS in m y tank. This one came with the tank 3 years ago. Was 1/4 the size then LOL

[xenon]

The problem with cutting leathers is the toxins they release in the water.

I wouldn't do it without running carbon in a reactor first.