Help trimming cabbage leather

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I've got a cabbage leather (sinularia dura) that has gotten a little large for it's place in my 90g. I've read that they are relatively easily cut and that the frags will heal quickly.

I don't know, however, whether it is okay to do so in the tank, or whether I should figure out how to remove it first. I certainly don't want to release some sort of self-defense toxins or something.

Opinion... Better, yet, experience... What say y'all.
 
Not in the tank and best to dip in Iodine solution before you put the pieces back in the tank.

Like everyone else said - cut with sharp scissors.
 
Ended up having no choice but doing it in the tank - it was a lot more attached to a very large rock than I had thought it to be. That's a good thing, usually, but it meant I could remove it before trimming.

I used a *very* sharp pair of scissors from my old college dissection kit (surgical stainless steel). They did a very good job, though an xacto knife might have been easier. I nearly put my elbow and wrist out of joint reaching the part I wanted to cut without taking out any of it's neighbors.

I don't know if there were any toxins, though the hammer colony next door looked like it didn't appreciate all the action at all. It seems to be getting back to it's normal condition so maybe it was just ticked about so much going on in close proximity (see above).

Anyway, what's done is done and I got a new piece of rock back behind the cabbage so in the long run it should look a lot better in that corner - upper left in fts:
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or at the top of this side shot:
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Thanks for all the help. We'll see, I might have soem cabbage frags available if they heal up well.
 
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