GSP overtaking Ricordea

[ari5736]

Any recommendations from stopping GSP that is quickly covering a rock with ricordea on it. So far I have lost a couple of heads of ricordea. I'm thinking maybe a biological weapon (butterfly fish?), or killing the GSP in some other fashion.

 

[muteturkey]

A biological weapon may turn on the ricordea as well. GSP can easily be pulled off the rock with your finger. If you can get up under it, it comes off like a matt.

 

[ReeferBill]

Peel it off asuper glue to frag plugs or small pieces of rock and trade frags of the gsp for something you want!

 

[Rudolph]

Hard to stop well established GSP...it can be a wild weed and hard to kill. Mine never came off easy like the others experiences, unless it is trying to jump to another rock and then you can catch it exposed. Once if covers a rock it is on like glue.

If not, surrender the turf. Take a small head screwdriver or the like and try to get some rock with it and chip it off. Glue to another rock. Kill GSP, or isolate to a rock that does not touch another one and keep it trimmed.

If it is just a small amount, you can put some kaulk paste on it and it will kill it.

 

[ari5736]

TY for all the suggestions, it grows so fast, I need to do something quick.

 

[randomfishguy85]

why not try putting more aggresive corals to stop it from advancing further. maybe frogspawn or hammer corals

 

[byeung]

+1 on the frogspawn wall. I had GSP grow over a blasto colony.