Anyone know a trick to get gsp off rock?

[buzzbait00]

I've got a branch of around 100 heads of neon green candy cane and gsp has taken over the rock and is climbing up the branch.It comes off it tiny peices.Peeling it off would take forever!IT HAS TO GO DEAD OR ALIVE!

 

[NicoleC]

Wood working chisel, available cheap at Harbor Freight but wipe the oil off and take the rock out of the water -- you don't want the oil getting in your tank. Use the chisel to take a thin layer of the rock underneath the GSP off. Once you get the hang of it it's quite easy and fast.

I think you will have to peel it off the coral, though, unless someone has a cool idea.

 

[GCamp13]

Your Candy Canes are beautiful too. By the way, the coral that I got from you is doing great

 

[Tomoko Schum]

I am afraid that chiseling is practically the only way unless you can find a few GSP eating nudibranch. I recall CRA got one of those hitchhiking into their tank several years ago. John got rid of them promptly after someone (I think it was greenbean) identified it.

Tomoko

 

[reeferaddict]

Doesn't your GSP have a definite mat? I have the type that puts off runners that seem to drape like vines and I can peel them off in sheets! If you start peeling with a clean razor to get between the mat and the rock, can't you pull it off in larger pieces?
I don't really have experience with the standard GSP's I guess, so my advice might be worthless to you.

 

[buzzbait00]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13022336#post13022336 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reeferaddict
Doesn't your GSP have a definite mat? I have the type that puts off runners that seem to drape like vines and I can peel them off in sheets! If you start peeling with a clean razor to get between the mat and the rock, can't you pull it off in larger pieces?
I don't really have experience with the standard GSP's I guess, so my advice might be worthless to you.

Yea it is a solid mat,but it doesn't peel off in one piece.Keeps breaking.

I was hopeing you could "dip" it in something(cold/hot water ect)and the mat would seperate better from the rock.Not so far.Maybe let it dry a bit.I don't know!

 

[NicoleC]

I can tell you that drying it won't work.

 

[pfish]

I took out the rock and placed the gsp covered part into boiling water for 5 sec. Then the mat comes rite off will very little pressure. The down side is that it kills that part of the rock but it quickly comes back.

 

[EllieSuz]

I had this bright idea to cover a patch of it with putty thinking that starved of food, flow and light would kill it. Left it like that for three weeks, took the putty off and the GSP sprang back to life immediately. So, don't bother to try that one. I figured all I had to do was to be a little smarter than a hunk of GSP. Wrong.

 

[H@rry]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13023269#post13023269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pfish
I took out the rock and placed the gsp covered part into boiling water for 5 sec. Then the mat comes rite off will very little pressure. The down side is that it kills that part of the rock but it quickly comes back.

Wow!

 

[buzzbait00]

The gsp is closed from me pokin at it but you can see my delema.

GCamp glad to hear u like the corals

 

[NicoleC]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13023269#post13023269 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by pfish
I took out the rock and placed the gsp covered part into boiling water for 5 sec. Then the mat comes rite off will very little pressure. The down side is that it kills that part of the rock but it quickly comes back.

Or, you could have just sold the rock to someone who wanted a nice mature GSP colony.

 

[pfish]

I wouldn't be so cruel.

 

[rissaroo]

I would love to have some of those candy canes!!! Gorgeous!

 

[buzzbait00]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13031949#post13031949 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by rissaroo
I would love to have some of those candy canes!!! Gorgeous!

If I come up wit a diamond cutting bit I'll wack a few off.I wasn't going to cut on it but the colony seems a bit crouded.Might do some good to thin it out.

 

[H@rry]

I use pruning shears.

 

[8BALL_99]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13020708#post13020708 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by NicoleC
Wood working chisel, available cheap at Harbor Freight but wipe the oil off and take the rock out of the water -- you don't want the oil getting in your tank. Use the chisel to take a thin layer of the rock underneath the GSP off. Once you get the hang of it it's quite easy and fast.

I think you will have to peel it off the coral, though, unless someone has a cool idea.

This is the only way I've been able to get it all off.. I peel as much as I can.. Then I take a chisel to whats left.. But even then I have had single polyps pop up weeks later.. You might could try dipping it in Kalk maybe letting it sit for a few seconds.. Really that would be easy to test.. Just peel off a peice dip it in Kalk then stick it back in the tank.. If it dies, there ya go..

Will

 

[buzzbait00]

Someone in another forum sugested a dip with fluke tabs


"apparently not much effect on anything but Green Star Polyps (GSP) and xenias and other anthelia. There are several posts on RC about it. I think it was one of those unplanned side affects from killing off flat worms. If you rinse the coral or rock off before returning to the tank it has minimal effect on anything, but if the coral or rock is not rinsed apparently there is some chemical in Fluketabs that is very toxic to GSP and xenia. I know a few people that treated a long time ago and to this day still can not keep xenia. I don't think the effect is as long lasting with GSP but we are probably still taking months if not years."