Kenya Tree. It’s growing so fast it’s covering up my pretty clove polyps.
5"W x 6"H x 4"D when fully extended. Have not removed it from it’s rock yet. I have never done this, anybody have any tips on the best method? Cut the stalk and put it on the substrate??
if it floats around, u can rubber band it to a chunk rubble until it attaches
It’s attached to a large piece of live rock, and I want to remove it, not get it to stick around for longer. lol
sorry, i thought you meant the frag… not sure how to ensure it doesnt grow back… my first thought is to kalk it. but i’m not sure, the pieces ive had i kept away from large rocks after learning the hard way with my ongoing gsp battle …
The only way to do it is to break the rock around the coral. If you cut it or pull it off the rock, the residue will grow back. I’m having the same problem with cabbage leather. I try to pull it off as close to the rock as I can so that it will not leave any residue.
Sure this isn’t a “colt coral”? If you don’t have 30 mini babies yet it probably isn’t typical Kenya tree.
To move the majority of the coral cut it, stick a tooth pick near the base. Then rubber band it to a rock and set it in a medium flow area in the tank with decent light. Then cross fingers, sometimes this works, sometimes it won’t. KenS may have more advice as he has worked with these more often recently then I have.
You may have to remove the portion of the rock where the coral was footed if you don’t want it to ever grow back. That being said colt coral doesn’t often grow that fast and you could just re-frag it later.
i have had great sucess by removing rock and boiling it for 30 minutes. killls all corals and critters on rock. after boiling it just scrub with a brush rinse very well and put back in tank. works well on small to meduim pieces without having a large spike in tank.
I could trade you a piece of live rock without any coral on it for it, would hate to see the coral killed.
I’ve got a few spawns that have fallen off over the past few weeks, and they aren’t much of a nuisance. I was mostly asking if it was ok to cut the stem . . . I don’t want to damage the little guy too bad.
The clove polyps spread at a pretty good rate, and I’m hoping to get them to grow up over where the Kenya is now to snuff it out. I like them better, and they aren’t as invasive.
In a similar issue, how do you keep Zoas from spreading into other corals? I have a few bunches that are encroaching on some Candy Cane and a Chalice.
Same goes with zoo, GSP or any other encrusting, spreader corals. Stronger will survive!!
kenya tree has a pretty callous foot. you can usually scrape and peal it off the rock with your finger nail or and knife. just pick at the edge, and work your way across the bottom. i ve done that all the time. it sticks right back to any thing you tie it down to. foot undamaged.
Thanks Ken, I’m going to try tonight.
[quote=“dajohnson02, post:9, topic:5077”]
In a similar issue, how do you keep Zoas from spreading into other corals? I have a few bunches that are encroaching on some Candy Cane and a Chalice.[/quote]
Keep them out of your tank or an unattached rock. You’ll often find tanks where half the tank is zoanthids because it’s too much work to keep them at bay. Another way to go about it is to have a zoanthid island. Zoas don’t require super bright light so placing a rock in your sand away from your main rock structures will make it pretty difficult for them to just keep growing over things.