Well, four hours, one crowbar, and a couple of near nervous breakdowns later, we had our answer.  It was really tough.  This was because over the years, the hydno had grown solidly onto five or more good sized pieces of rock which themselves had several other acros growing on them.  In other words, without some major tank reconstruction, this coral wasn’t going anywhere.  By the time we realized this, of course, it was too late to turn back…just the kind of situation you love to be involved in a few days before leaving for most of the summer. 

So, we ended up having to temporarily place several corals in both the refugium and the sump.  This was to give us the needed leverage in prying out the hydno that had seemingly welded the entire middle third of the tank together.  And as I earlier stated, it actually took a crowbar to separate them.  What also wound up happening was the collateral fragging of a few other corals due to the separation and removal of these large pieces of rock.  Nothing was severely damaged, but some corals definitely had a rougher time of it than others. Take my poor Hydrophora (Blue Ridge) for example; the hands down winner of the Most Abused Coral in my tank.  Not only is the top still scarred by the singing it received from my lighting change of nearly two years ago, but also during this operation, we discovered that the HyDNO had actually begun to encrust onto a section of the