How to kill brown star polyps?

[crpeck]

I have decided that after aptasia, brown star polyps must be the cockroaches of the sea. They continue to spread and sting back other corals that supposedly are more aggressive. Now they're even going up the anemone's rock and I'm amazed that the anemone (a BIG bubble tip) is retreating from them.

I can take the other rocks out and scrape them off, but now they've made it on to one of the rocks where the anemone has anchored his foot so I can't remove it. The anemone's foot is actually anchored accross two or three rocks so an entire section would have to come out which I'm not up for.

When I try to peel off the BSP, they release such a cloud of nasty in the tank. I've let a pretty large section get out of control so to scrape them in the tank would be really messy.

I've heard you can cover them with Super Glue, but this is a big patch and would be a lot of Super Glue.

Anyone know any other tricks to stop the BSP that doesn't kill anything else?

 

[sperry]

I put Stop Aptasia on my unwanted polyps.

 

[crpeck]

Thanks ... that's an idea. I'll try it.

 

[crpeck]

I'm actually finding that if I do it really carefully, I can peel the mat up and get more than I thought. I'm easing a pair of tweezers underneath the mat and trying to loosen as much as I can and then peeeeeeeeel it away carefully.

I won't be able to get it all, but I can at least slow it down. It is spewing a lot of goo but I'm doing a water change anyway today. I just hope this junk it's releasing isn't some kind of reproductive spores that are going to spread these things worse.

 

[ducklabdad]

I spread Kalk paste on some and it killend thm back.

 

[bshumake]

What you're doing Cathy is what i did to get rid of mine. It took a little bit but once you get it all you're home free. I didn't calc, glue, or anything but peel. I worked some tweezers under the paper-like base and pulled it out in one big sheet. As for the cloud of nasty, you might try getting some airline hose, or rodi hose and syphon off the cloud as it forms. Then replace with fresh SW.
All in all, you'll eventually remove it all with picking it apart.