Killing star polyps
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poolkeeper1
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Scraping them off Is one way, Another Is make a paste out of Mrs Wages Pickling Lime and apply directly with a syringe, But be careful not to Raise your levels too much with the paste. Do small areas at a time. Make sure you have no flow on that area so It will stay on the SP for awhile. I've had some sucess with this method and It works on other pest too.
Cptn Spaulding
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...instead of trying to kill it why dont you use a razorblade to cut it off the rock, glue it to another piece of rubble, and sell it to a LFS for some money? it only seems logical IMO
oxymoron
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I made the mistake of sitting a frag disk of gsp on my largest rock. It spread in two different spots before I had realized my mistake.
I have had great success using Joe's Juice. Apply it to the open polyps and like a previous poster said cut the flow to that area.
about 80% will die with the first application but it is really resilient.
It took 3 applications for me to eradicate one patch and I am still working on the other.
The key is patience and to make sure you keep on it until you've won the battle. Again I think applying it to the polyps when they are open brought me better results.
Scraping it off could lead to a piece floating somewhere you don't want it to go and essentially starting a new colony. Maybe in a place that you can't get too.
Good luck
Ps Joe's Juice is basically kalk paste you could probably just use the kalk.
I have had great success using Joe's Juice. Apply it to the open polyps and like a previous poster said cut the flow to that area.
about 80% will die with the first application but it is really resilient.
It took 3 applications for me to eradicate one patch and I am still working on the other.
The key is patience and to make sure you keep on it until you've won the battle. Again I think applying it to the polyps when they are open brought me better results.
Scraping it off could lead to a piece floating somewhere you don't want it to go and essentially starting a new colony. Maybe in a place that you can't get too.
Good luck
Ps Joe's Juice is basically kalk paste you could probably just use the kalk.
You probably won’t believe this... but. I had a rock with GSP and I pulled it out of my tank and had it sitting on my back porch for several months in the Texas summer heat, completely dried out for months. I later re-cured the rock, put it in a sump and after a few months they started showing up on the rock again.
Resilient isn't the word for this stuff.
Resilient isn't the word for this stuff.
That is the story of my tank. I have tried pieces of GSP 3 different times and they always fade away and die. I keep LPS, xenia, leather, kenya tree, and a few SPS (the brown sticks). I have a 75g tank with 6x54w T5HO TEK light. I am also having trouble with briarium (looks like GSP, but makes tubes instead of a mat).
I have know idea why GSP will not grow for me in this tank... Now that I look back on it, I am a little grateful that it dies off instead of take over.
dsoz
ginger7286
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I have a beautiful rock of them in my tank, massive. They spread yes, but the color is awesome. I am going to begin fragging it and selling the frags....hopefully. 
My GSPs took off and were all over the neighboring rocks. Suddenly they started melting down and only now seem to have stabilized. I'm not sure what's wrong.....and it makes me feel even worse hearing about the guy above who left them out in the Texas heat and couldn't kill 'em. 
dbartkow
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fluke tabs do work! I used it on my system that was completely overrun with Xenia. It was amazing... in a couple of days it was all gone. My tank now has never been doing better.
The only downside is the fluke tabs will kill any shrimp you have in the tank. So be sure to move them to another tank for a little while.
Dave
The only downside is the fluke tabs will kill any shrimp you have in the tank. So be sure to move them to another tank for a little while.
Dave
+1 on freakish resilence. I had a huge colony covering almost half of a 75. I didn't mind, because it looked nice, but then it started growing up a rock with a coral I liked, so I decided to kill in on that rock to prevent issues. I scraped all the flesh I could get at with a razor, then soaked the rock in scalding hot tap water for about 2-3 minutes (keeping the main coral out of the water of course), and then took a brush to it for a little. It took a couple weeks, but the darn stuff started growing new polyps wherever there was flesh I hadn't been able to remove.
Then, one day, all of it died with no warning. Wierdness.
Then, one day, all of it died with no warning. Wierdness.
