Newbie here.
I wanted to get rid of some zoas on some of my rocks in my tank. I also wanted to move some polyps around. I saw a video on Youtube of a person using a razor blade to scrap them off when fragging.
When I was scraping them off, there was what appeared to be a lot of mucus. I think I removed about 10 polyps. These guys were just a dark green color that really didn't fluoresce under blue light. Almost like a green/brownish color.
I think fragged a couple of polyps of a different colony to another rock out of the tank.
I got curious about the mucus and did an internet search and lo and behold, learned about palytoxin. There was some mucus floating around the tank. I have a 43 gallon DT with sump.
I figure time will tell if I nuked my tank. I'm worried about the other coral and fish. I don't have any carbon to go get at this point of night.
If the tank looks ok in the morning, do you think it'll be ok long term? I don't know how long palytoxin takes to harm the other organisms.
Pretty ticked at myself.
I wanted to get rid of some zoas on some of my rocks in my tank. I also wanted to move some polyps around. I saw a video on Youtube of a person using a razor blade to scrap them off when fragging.
When I was scraping them off, there was what appeared to be a lot of mucus. I think I removed about 10 polyps. These guys were just a dark green color that really didn't fluoresce under blue light. Almost like a green/brownish color.
I think fragged a couple of polyps of a different colony to another rock out of the tank.
I got curious about the mucus and did an internet search and lo and behold, learned about palytoxin. There was some mucus floating around the tank. I have a 43 gallon DT with sump.
I figure time will tell if I nuked my tank. I'm worried about the other coral and fish. I don't have any carbon to go get at this point of night.
If the tank looks ok in the morning, do you think it'll be ok long term? I don't know how long palytoxin takes to harm the other organisms.
Pretty ticked at myself.