How to kill GSP

[gmpolan]

+ 1 try covering them in a kalk paste....

 

[Army_JAG]

The first picture is of Starburst polyps the second set of pictures is actually GSP

GSP sting and kill other corals

I am only referencing the site for its information and that it is a credible site for information, I am in no way affiliated with either site and gain nothing by mentioning their name.

I pulled this from Bloozooaquatics.com

Other Common Names
Starburst Polyps, Eight Tentacle Polyps, Mat Polyps, Daisy Polyps

Description
Green Star Polyps are a favorite coral for beginners and advanced hobbyists alike. The waving polyps flowing in the current add movement and color to the aquarium.

Green Star Polyps are often noted to be good indicators of water quality, and flow. They react quite quickly to changes in water parameters by not opening. It is very important to make sure your pH and Alkalinity are balanced to encourage growth and color of this flashy, easy to keep coral.

Care should be taken when placing this coral into your aquarium. If given the right placement in good water quality, this coral will often grow very quickly. Be sure to leave a minimum of six inches between corals to allow for growth. Large colonies are similar in appearance to a phosphorescent lawn. The coral will encrust rock and just about anything it gets near. When a rock is crowded, the colonies will react by sloughing a waxy purple growth that can then be glued to another rock or tied onto a rock with string. In a few weeks it will attach to the rock and become its own colony. Tissue left behind on rock will usually grow into a new colony.

and this was from Liveaquaria.com

Accurately described as an encrusting coral, Starburst Polyps rapidly grow over adjacent rock work, coral, or even the glass of an established reef aquarium. They are a peaceful coral armed with the defensive capability of being able to retract or deflate each of their polyps in response to predation. They will not harm other corals that are placed close to their colony, but are susceptible to being damaged by any aggressive corals in the reef aquarium. They are easy to maintain in the reef aquarium and make an excellent candidate for the beginning through expert reef aquarist.

 

[Army_JAG]

I have a similar GSP problem but I can remove the rock in question...... I am thinking about using a dremmel to cut the rock into frags and gluing them to the back of the display tank, i think it would eventually resemble a neon green shag rug

 

[scapes]

i bought one of these from La, just b/c i thought it was cool.
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=497+526+866&pcatid=866

then i found out he likes algae, so i said, "ok, he can eat all my hair algae, & calerpa", which he ate every morsel. when that was gone, he found a shell i had for deco in my tank that was covered in gsp. it was quite cool. little did i know this bugger liked gsp as well, and ate every single morsel of that as well. he eventually died....his appetite was just so large. but, yeah, this snail worked in eliminating my gsp

 

[hanktrank]

just wondering

just wondering

I just scrubbed the heck out of it today and covered it with reef puddy. Cross my fingers.

I used a whole stick though for a 6x4 area. Anyone have an idea how long it takes to smother it so I know it's dead?

Hi, I'm having the exact same issue. I was wondering if scrubbing it and then putting epoxy on the live rock worked for you? I was thinking of removing the rock, scrub, maybe kalk, then epoxy.

Let me know your thoughts...and advice would be greatly appreciated! thanks

 

[2smokes]

Hi, I'm having the exact same issue. I was wondering if scrubbing it and then putting epoxy on the live rock worked for you? I was thinking of removing the rock, scrub, maybe kalk, then epoxy.

Let me know your thoughts...and advice would be greatly appreciated! thanks

If you know how to use kalk then you can pour litle by litle day by day and let it for an hour or so.It will slowly kill any coral that you consider a pest just like it kills aiptasia.If the coral you want to kill is big and needs a lot of kalk paste then carefully monitor the alk if you have sps corals in aquarium.

 

[BarIzoN]

Sorry, but I had a GSP dead by worms living inside it!

That was my very first coral and I was really sad about that!

Fire.

The only way to get rid of GSP is fire.

I've witnessed somebody covering it over with a thin layer of epoxy, only to have it come back, in some places -through- the epoxy.