Does Anything Eat GSP?

[u418936]

My aquarium is infested by GSP. Is there any fish that'll eat them? I would buy the fish, wait for it to eat all the polyps, and return it (in much fatter condition) to my LFS.

I can put all of my other corals, clams, and other inverts in a well-lit frag tank plumbed to my main tank. I already have a lot of them in there, anyways.

I don't think there's any other way to kill the GSP without killing my live rock. Joe's juice wouldn't work because I'd have to use so much that my PH would change drastically. Scraping the rock wouldn't work, because if I missed even a tiny piece of the GSP, it'd grow back.

 

[Logzor]

Difficult situation if you can not just peel it off.

Maybe use a rubber band and put some black tarp/plastic over the area.

 

[Mattmcf]

i would move what you can to your frag tank. Peel off the GSP and try trading what you can in to your local fish stores. With the remnants still in your tank use the joes juice. Then, do a 50% water change to combat the PH change.

 

[VAreefer]

There is a nudi (blanking on name) that eats them. I got two from LFS and they ate every GSP I had, and I was being overrun with them. Sometimes LFS will get them with GSP and depose of them as pest.

 

[greenbean36191]

Phyllodesmium briareum

 

[ACBlinky]

You might try an angel or butterfly -- there are quite a few that will eat coral. Another option, which may or may not appeal, is to sell off your rock and replace it. Kalk paste will kill GSP, but you can't use too much at once so it would be a slow process.

 

[demonsp]

Not for sure but if big enough and hungry enough chances are great.
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