best way to? need quick answer

[jgoal55]

Hey all,

Im taking down (or rather, moving) my 90 tomorrow and some of the SPS frags have encrusted on rocks i dont want to keep or have encrusted to close to each other. Whats the best way to get them off the rocks once they are encrusted?

Thanks,
Jorge

 

[dakota9]

Shouldn't be any real reason to move them off the rocks. With encrusted corals, the trick is to have enough smaller containers to move them in. Go to a LFS and get several (or many) extruded foam boxes live fish are delivered in. Pack them a few corals and some bare rock each.

It works well, and you dont have to worry about re-attaching them later.

 

[skriz]

Take off some rock with a chisel or sharp blade (depending on the type of rock).

If you use a chisel, score the rock where you want it to break and make sure you use a decent chisel. You should get a nice sliver of rock with your coral

 

[jgoal55]

ahh...thats sounds like a good idea Raj...thanks.

as for why im removing the rock, mostly because I really dont like some of the rocks in my tank currently so I am going to give them to the new owner of the tank (aka - my brother) and also because some of the corals are too close together (thats my fault but part of the reason I now have a bigger tank...hehe)