Can I save these green button polyps??

[pwest]

I've been cooking my liverock for about 4 months now. When I first took the rock out of my display tank, I left a few large rocks in that were heavily encrusted with green button polyps. Of course, these rocks have continued to support the ugly green hair algae/bryopsis (not sure which), but the rest of the tank has been pretty much algae free. So, I need to get those rocks out and I'd like to save some of the polyps. Is there any way to get these guys off the original rock and glued onto some cooked rock? I took a razor blade to one and it wasn't a pretty sight.

Alternately, is there some way I could try to cook these rocks without killing the coral? Maybe just an hour or two of light per day to keep the polyps alive?

Thanks,
Phil

[Wiskey]

If you can keep the corals alive, you can keep the algae alive.

You can scrape the pylops off with a razor blade agenst the rock, but they are hard to re-attach (glue). I would use a chizel and a hammer to break a small section of the rock off where the pylops are attached.

HTH,
Whiskey

[clockwork]

I have had button polyps come back after many many months in a trashcan and even had them come back when they were in another can that was sealed no flow no air. They will form a hard shell which kinda encapsules them.