Trimming corals question

[Geofrog]

I recently had to trim a Xenia colony that was getting too close to my anemone. As it was on a large peice of rock that I couldn't remove from the tank, I trimmed it in the display. Run lots of carbon if doing that as the coral will most likey secrete a toxic slime. Use a sharp razor and cut it with one clean cut with a cut surface area as small as possible to minimize infection.

Anoth method, takes time though, is to use a zip tie and slowly tighten it each day until the coral detaches itself.