How deadly are green star polyps?

[karimwassef]

After I rescued my hammer, the GSP turned on the button polyps ... Here they completely engulfed one polyp!! I mean grew around it until only its tentacles were barely visible through the hole in the GSP tissue... And then irritated it into being closed and now almost completely covered

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It's a growth rate war. I wonder if the GSP will continue doing this with each individual polyp.

And if they'll start growing over the living tissue of the digitata next to them? The digitata is pretty fast. It might outpace it at the tips, but surrender its base.

 

[JoeTSI]

I plan to take a torch to my GSP as it is quickly approaching a zoa colony on a rock as well. Will hit it with the torch to kill it, scrub as much dead off as possible, and overskim for a week.

 

[karimwassef]

What kind of torch?

 

[UTCReefer]

GSP must be contained, mine only grows on the back wall like a sheet of wavy green grass. It will kill everything in its path. Once its on a rock there is no getting rid of it.

 

[JoeTSI]

What kind of torch?

A blow torch