killer star polyps

[undertai]

My star polyps are killing my sps corals. Everythime I put a sps in distance of my stars. The sps loses the war? I thought sps were suppose to be more aggresive? What can I put next to the star polpys that will kill them or cause them not to grow. I Also had a hammer coral next to the hammer was losing the war also. Can't take out the rock as it is big and a few sps are attached to it. Any suggestions?

 

[shadofax69]

just wondering do your polyps have a purple mat or do they have a skeleton. The reason I ask is because it does not sound like star polyp to be killing things that are distant. It sounds more like Galaxia which has potent and long sweepers that can sing

 

[Ti]

I don't think we are talking about star polyps

 

[undertai]

these are stars with the purple base not a skeleton. I have 2 different types flourscent or mettalic green and green

 

[SunnyX]

Green Star polps will kill any other coral in your tank.

I have a Digi fall on them before, only for 10 seconds, and it killed it.

 

[Grayout]

I agree with SunnyX regarding the lethality of GSP's. I've had them almost kill an acro colony before I removed them. They can also wipe out many other types of corals that don't pack a sting. They hate bubble coral, hammers, frogspawn etc.

The only successful way I've removed them was to scrape them off the rock with a toothbrush. They are, however, very resiliant and difficult to elliminate. Basically, many reefers will tell you not to add them to an sps tank.