green star polyps taking over!

psyrob

psyrob

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The tiny tiny piece of green star polyp I got at the LFS for 5 dollars two years ago is now an unstoppable monster. It is "jumping" from rock to rock, crossing the sand and starting to over grow what were far away zoa's and now my prized rhicordia (sp?) mushrooms. What do you all do to control this beast? I tried to pull the mat off the rocks but it is stuck too hard...and the rock is so irregular, I can't get a good grip with my tongs...I just get millimeter sized pieces at a time. I also tried shading them with a rock, but it just grew out from under it...I'm getting desperate! Any suggestions would be appreciated.
 
Boiling water? Do you squirt it with a hypodermic needle or turkey baster, or take out the rock it is on an blast it outside the tank?

Anyone try a kalkwasser paste?
 
LOL, I just bought some, as I want it to cover my 12 nano. Believe it or not, when I had a heater malfunction several years ago, it was one of the few things that died.
 
I used a combination of boiling water and kalk paste to kill my ugly shrooms and gsp and other junk. it worked but u might need to do it couple time
 
I wish I had your problem. My gsp just dissolved over a two week period. I have no idea why either because all of my other corals were doing great.
 
Most of the things you can do to kill it will also be deadly to other corals on the same rock. If it is possible to seperate the corals as much as possible, do that first. Then, boiling hot water does work very well. If part of the GSP is close to another coral, you can use a baster to direct boiling freshwater over just the GSP as best as possible, but it does get tricky. The best idea is to keep it from touching other rocks all together. Mine is strung up with fishing line so it hovers against the back glass but cant touch anything else.
 
Just about everything we keep unless you happen to get your hands on fire coral or some anemone with a strong enough sting.
 
Thanks for the suggestions... Interestingly, it is growing over everything in its path except for some button corals/protopalythoa. They are standing tall in the middle of the monster, an island in the middle of the sea of GPS...I think I will try the targeted boiling water, and try pulling off as much of the mat as I can, maybe saving and trading some of the GPS, but I hate to give someone else the same problem...
 
LOL, well you just have to find someone like me. I want my whole tank to overgrow.
 
I just fragged some of my GSP tonight. I have a bare bottom, so I just have my GSP island sitting out not touching anything. I let it grow onto the bottom then scrape it up with a razor blade and wrap it around rocks. Once they attach, I sell them. :)

I do have it surrounded by some Frogspawn though, just in case it needs to put the smack down on the GSP to keep it under control :)

Matt
 
I made mine into a tree :)

An old pic, I frag the base when it gets to close to the zoos that have grown up the other way.

Middle.jpg


Way back when :)

Staracitinic.jpg
 
Its a giant single curved branch of tonga. i think it was about 3 ft long, and about half of it is buried in sand and under rocks for support.

Another old pic:

FTS.jpg


I accented with a few large pieces of tonga and have used them to put SPS in the middle of the tank now.
 
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Here's a pic of mine:

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I'm going to try that. I'll have to try and keep something at the base like you did to keep it in check. I have frags of this stuff everywhere right now.

Matt
 
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