relocating tunicates

[mle421]

ok, so i got this great live rock from Liverocks.com and its covered in wonderful stuff! but i have a nice tunicate growing on both sides of my rock. i want to save the one that is on the bottom but how do i get it off the part of rock its on and how do i relocate it and make it attach to a different part of the rock?

 

[Brad]

My best advice is to try to move a piece of the rock that it is attached to. They are extremely fragile and I don't think it will survive attempts at direct detatchment.

 

[mle421]

hmmmm. well moving the rock won't work because there's tunicates on all sides of it! its not directly on the bottom, its still visible the way i have the rock now, its just kinda half in the sand. maybe i'll just push the sand away from that area and hope it moves up a bit. thanks for the help!