Exposing coral to the air?

So i have alot of zoa frags that are on the ugly plugs. Most of the colony is just on a piece of live rock that was then attached to the plug with super glue. I want to pop these pieces off of the plugs so i can get rid of the ugly plug and just super glue this to a rock. This means i will have to pull the coral out and use a screw driver and a hammer. Can zoas handle being out of the tank and exposed to air for a few minutes?

 

crusty
Zoanthids can certainly, as long as they dont completely dry out they are fine
others can also, Leathers, toadstools, GSP, Anthellia encrusted rock ( Just thinking of the ones I have had on my dinning table recently that got split/ fragged and mounted on new rock)

Steve

 

awsome. cant wait for them to grow! Merry Christmas!!!

 

When I do my once-in-a-blue-moon WC, almost half the tank is empty and alot of my corals are out of the water. You should be fine.


Luna

 

Zoas will be fine like steve said!

 

You will be ok, just don't do it with sponges.

 

could you try a razor blade to scrape the zoos off the grow plug.