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?
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How about fragging and selling or trading to get that new piece you've been wanting??? ;D

 

trade it in at the reef store and get a rock with nothing on it and some frags

 

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

 

I want to save all of the green button polyps it has grown over...How should I go about doing this?

 

I put them in the snad. Yet they still come out. I hate them and have gotten rid of almost of my mine.

 

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 I'm sure you've seen times when your GSP are withdrawn, reduced to a bright purple mat on the LR.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!?!;D;D

 

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

 

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?8)