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05-22-2008, 10:03 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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   |  Green Star Polyps
I have a 30lb show piece of LR. It has lots of green button polyps and xenia on it. The problem is that the star polyps are taking over and growing like weeds. What, and how should I remedy this problem?  _________ 72 gallon bowed 150lbs LR 60 lbs LS
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Green Star polyps
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05-22-2008, 10:08 AM
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| | Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Columbus Indiana
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How about fragging and selling or trading to get that new piece you've been wanting???  _________ Kris
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05-22-2008, 11:22 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: valencia,pa. Age: 34
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trade it in at the reef store and get a rock with nothing on it and some frags
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55 gallon reef with 4x54 watt t5,29 gallon sump,red monti cap,1blue echinophyllia,trumpet,red lobo,2 toadstools 1purple and 1neon,gsp,xenia and yellow xenia,red ,many mushrooms,2 giant frilly shrooms,cabbage coral,yellow polyps,many zoos,1 orange and one neon green nepthia,duncans,cladiella | |
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05-22-2008, 11:31 AM
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| | Spaghetti Worm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: WEST PALM BEACH, FL Age: 25
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all you have to do with the star polyops is rip it off hte rock! i do it all the time, now if you want a nice peice that is cut nicely then use scissors _________  It's Spilting time/Millertime!  MY TANK- JBJ 3 GAL PICOTOPE w/ 150 Cascade HOB Filter stock lighting untill the 2x18watt Satellite comes in. MY CORAL- Multiple Zoa's | |
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05-22-2008, 11:45 AM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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I want to save all of the green button polyps it has grown over...How should I go about doing this? | |
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05-22-2008, 03:05 PM
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| | Fire Shrimp
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Urbana Age: 24
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I put them in the snad. Yet they still come out. I hate them and have gotten rid of almost of my mine. | |
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05-22-2008, 03:21 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: South Florida Age: 42
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Howdy Baxter. I'm sure you've seen times when your GSP are withdrawn, reduced to a bright purple mat on the LR.
I wouldn't have known, except for when I bought mine on a fist-sized piece of LR, the LFS employee manhandled it, and when I got it home the purple mat was separated from the rock by a large slit. I thought it was destined to die.
Three days later, I noticed the purple mat had repaired itself. It had reglued itself to the rock, so to speak. It was a bit less purple on the borders of new growth, but I have now seen from experience, this border spreads!!
What a hardy coral!
If you wish to thin it out; at a time when it's a mat, rub the rock and cause it to separate. You should be able to remove the mat in sheets.
If I were a coral farmer, I'd rubber band it to new LR, wait for it to set, and sell it as GSP. Heck, you don't even have to call it frags! You could conceivably cover a pretty large rock just like fondant on a big wedding cake, if you had that much of it.
Isn't it nice to have these kinds of problems!?!
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05-22-2008, 03:52 PM
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| | 3reef Sponsor
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Va/Ct
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Peel them off the rock. Just lift a corner from the rock and peel them back. they come on a sheet (: OOPs Missed Millers reply what he said (: _________ Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible (Doug Larson) | |
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05-22-2008, 07:36 PM
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| | Torch Coral
Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Baltimore, MD Age: 47
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ReefSparky  Howdy Baxter. I'm sure you've seen times when your GSP are withdrawn, reduced to a bright purple mat on the LR.
I wouldn't have known, except for when I bought mine on a fist-sized piece of LR, the LFS employee manhandled it, and when I got it home the purple mat was separated from the rock by a large slit. I thought it was destined to die.
Three days later, I noticed the purple mat had repaired itself. It had reglued itself to the rock, so to speak. It was a bit less purple on the borders of new growth, but I have now seen from experience, this border spreads!!
What a hardy coral!
If you wish to thin it out; at a time when it's a mat, rub the rock and cause it to separate. You should be able to remove the mat in sheets.
If I were a coral farmer, I'd rubber band it to new LR, wait for it to set, and sell it as GSP. Heck, you don't even have to call it frags! You could conceivably cover a pretty large rock just like fondant on a big wedding cake, if you had that much of it.
Isn't it nice to have these kinds of problems!?! | Thanks everyone, the green stars have totally encompasssed a batch of greeen buttons that I want to save. How should I go about seperating the buttons from the stars? | |
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