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Old 01/06/2008, 12:28 PM
Craig Lambert Craig Lambert is offline
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Need Help/Advice On Removing A Large Softy

I have a Pipe Organ Coral that has been in my tank for two years now. It has grown to the size of a softball and is encrusted into two large rocks. As it grew it attached itself to a wall of two rocks located behind it, as well as a third at it's base. My tank is mostley SPS with a few LPS. This is the only Soft Coral in the tank.

How do I remove this with the least amount of damage? Will it release any toxins that will effect my sps? Help would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 01/06/2008, 05:48 PM
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Any pics? I would like to see them. I have had mixed results with tubipora. And Is it really a softy
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Old 01/06/2008, 06:02 PM
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redox.

Here is a pic from 16 months ago. It's much larger now. (The coral just to the right of my leopard wrasse.)
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Old 01/07/2008, 06:17 AM
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Nice. Any reason why you would want to do away with such an awsome specimen? It will be hard to get it all out as tubipora is very brittle and will break up easy. I havent had any problems with tubipora killing anything else. The only problems Ive had with them is they are hard to keep alive
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