How deadly are green star polyps?

you can see its plating form here

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looks pretty open all the way over
 
this one shows it too. This is a few days earlier I think. You can see it ~30 seconds in

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This one isn't as easy, but it gives a top view around ~1:35-1:50

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really good closeup here at ~03:55

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again at ~5:08, but not as good. You can see it as I pan out at the end too.
 
Here's one dedicated to the GSP before it took over. This is ~3-4 months ago

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You can see the surge effect at about ~01:00

I think this location's flow spurred the growth of the fleshy ledges
 
and here are some pics from tonight with the GSP closed

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Again, I'm not talking about the whole colony of GSP. I'm just speaking to the edge that is in contact with the other coral.


I took the time to comment in your thread because. Just thursday I took action on my GSP colony that was actually encroaching on my torch coral. In my case the torch was doing fairly well at keeping the GSP at bay. However, the GSP were getting the upper hand in my tank. Slowly but surely. However, that very edge where the GSP were getting touched by the torch coral, would never open. I'm talking about only 1 or 2 rows of polyps back from the edge. Yet, the mat kept growing and pushing towards the torch coral. In the end, my torch coral has no side effects from this happening over the last two or so months. In fact, it sprouted a new head right where the GSP were trying to take over. I placed a rock where my torch used to be, and placed the torch on top of the new rock. My plan is to put rubble at the base of the new rock and cut and remove the GSP as frags and replace the rubble for more to grow onto.
 
Your not worried about the death of the sps coral?
What's in the background? An anemone?
Zoas maybe?


Edit:
And, if it is plating. Just reach in and peel it off. Get it away from what you don't want it touching.
 
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That SPS is a very fast growing monti digitata that is as much of a weed as the GSP. It's taken over whole sections of the tank and I've had to literally throw it away because I couldn't find enough takers in my immediate area.

I tried to control it, but I've given up. I just break and put it in my sump when it gets out of control in a region.
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I had a favorite little undata I was cultivating and when I was away for a week, this digitata wrecked it. So I'll let it duke it out with the aiptasia and GSP.

I've tried cutting the GSP flesh back but I have a built-in tank and access in that region is terrible (poor design... I know). I've managed to reach in with long tweezers and ripped off several inches of flesh but it grows back at a stunning pace.

I think I'm just going to have to relocate and frag my hammer.
 
I wonder why your torch was able to push back the GSP and mine were quickly defeated. Maybe being shaded and attacked was just too much of a 1-2 punch.
 
Thats a frogspawn. I dont see any torch coral??
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karimwassef said:
I wonder why your torch was able to push back the GSP and mine were quickly defeated. Maybe being shaded and attacked was just too much of a 1-2 punch.
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That's a good question. My first thought is, based on your description of growth rates in your system. Your coral is just more aggressive then mine.

I've struggled from day one with my current tank. I just can't find a groove with it. For a while I was unable to keep anything alive. That issue still comes and goes. So I believe my corals are stressed and don't have much drive.
 
And your GSP is more challenged than your torch, so it couldn't successfully kill it.

If your torch is putting out new polyps, your tank should be in good shape now.

I'm worried that if I frag my hammer's smaller polyps, the GSP will go after the bigger ones higher up. I don't really know why it's growing into a plate form instead of just continuing the encrust the rock it's already on.
 
By the way, the hammer on the left (in the shadows) is actually a child of this big one. It was starting to self-shadow as it started to form a ball. I really don't know what kind of rockscape would effectively accomodate a ball shaped coral, so I assume the bottom half dome of polyps are naturally destined to die due to shading so constant fragging is necessary?

My tank has SPS level lighting and flow, so even being shaded and hidden around rock corners was ok given that it prefers the lower light and lower flow.

I was working through this before the GSP accelerated the timeline
 
Vengeance Chaos Destruction!

Ripped up the GSP and rescued/relocated the victim hammer:

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