fast growing ugly brown polyps

[microshaft]

Does anyone have any tips or tricks to irradicating a these star polyps.? I foolishly brought them over from my first reef, a 30g, where they grew slowly but in my 100g, with much better lighting, they have gone out of control. They don't peel off the rock very well in most places and they 'pop' easily releasing a brown cloud into the water so I'm reluctant to try to brush or scrape them off with the rocks in the tank.

If only something would eat them and majanos!

 

[jkreefer]

can you just pull the rock that they are on and replace with new live rock?

 

[crispyreef]

I would take the rock out to scrap them off. You don't know what toxin may be released if you cut them in your tank.

 

[northbay-reefer]

pepermint shrimps might, or coperband butterfly, kalk paste also work but that could release toxin into the tank. I remove the rock and take acrape off as many as I can before trying the kalk paste, make sure to microwave the paste and heat it up a bit, it will work much better

 

[microshaft]

I'll take the affected rocks out and see if I can kill it off with kalk paste and scrubbing. My CBB doesn't touch it but sure goes nuts for the aiptasia that I rotate in from my refugium.

 

[northbay-reefer]

make sure to have some clean salt water in a bucket to rinse the rocks b4 putting it back into the tank

 

[treesmoker]

use a new razor blade to scrape the walls, they'll peel right off. As for the rocks, JOE'S JUICE! I use it for getting rid of glass anemones...aptaisa i think. This stuff comes out of the aplicator like a fine sand and covers the rock, as it start's to cure it turns into a paste starving anything underneath of oxygen. It's awesome stuff. Be carefull though, if it gets on anything else it'll burn LPS and ZOO's really bad!

 

[treesmoker]

use a new razor blade to scrape the walls, they'll peel right off. As for the rocks, JOE'S JUICE! I use it for getting rid of glass anemones...aptaisa i think. This stuff comes out of the aplicator like a fine sand and covers the rock, as it start's to cure it turns into a paste starving anything underneath of oxygen. It's awesome stuff. Be carefull though, if it gets on anything else it'll burn LPS and ZOO's really bad!