Green Star Polyp and Pink Gogorian Removal

ruppertb · Mar 12, 2012

I have a pink star polyp looking stuff and gsp in my tank. i hate them and cant get rid of them. I have read the best way is with a blow torch and burn them off. i want to try this, any one ever tried it?

also if you burn it and kill it, how do you remove it off the rock after you burnt it and how to you prep the rock to put it back into the tank. do you soak it for like a week in old saltwater or what?

REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 12, 2012

i have never seen a pink star polyp. were did you get it

Fish Hoarder · Mar 12, 2012

Is the pink stuff an encrusting gorgonian?

ruppertb · Mar 12, 2012

yes one of my first corals. it kills off everything and is much harded to peel off of a rock than gsp. i want to burn it off, but afraid of adding the rock back into tank. even if i soak it for a week im afrid the po4 will go way up

Fish Hoarder · Mar 12, 2012

That was one of my first corals about eight years ago. That stuff will spread everywhere! Good luck getting rid of it.

ruppertb · Mar 12, 2012

and how did u get rid of it

CrayHawk · Mar 12, 2012

Galaxy spreads like a week in my tank. I just remove the rock and chisel it off.

ruppertb · Mar 13, 2012

ok so i went a burnt some off a small rock to see what happens. i just tourched the star polyp[ mat, and left it out side for the night. today the stuff is still attached and cant even be peeled off. how should i remove it, stiff bristled brush??

REEFKEEPER10 · Mar 14, 2012

My tank is already been taken over by star polyps but I would love to put that pink in my tank. If it takes over then so be it. I don't suppose you would frag a piece of the pink and sell it to me. It would need to be FedEx to me in Tennessee before you kill it all. If not that is ok.