Adding a chocolate starfish to an established reef?

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So I am getting near the point of desperation that this is actually something I’m thinking about. I have a 250 gallon mixed reef that’s doing amazing may SPS are thriving but I left it on cruise control for the last six months as life has gotten busy. Now I have been overgrown with some ugly pallys and zoa. I’m thinking of adding in a chocolate chip starfish. What else beside the pallys could I expect him to eat?

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That’s a little older picture. Here are the ones that are growing like weeds
 

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hi,going to go for mushrooms first, prob not going to touch palys at all...
 

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a kalk paste will work too, but run carbon,keep eye on alk .
only do a small amount at a time.
 
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Unfortunately a lot of them are on my priced corals . Those ones I may have to Jules juice off of there but there’s so many I don’t think I could manually extract them
 

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Unfortunately a lot of them are on my priced corals . Those ones I may have to Jules juice off of there but there’s so many I don’t think I could manually extract them
I see, I have an idea but it’s a bit unorthodox and still a manual process. Using a syringe you can place the tip on top of the pally and suck them into the syringe. I do this for aiptasia. You do not have to do this to all of them, you can do it to the ones growing close to your prized coral, then use that free space to glue a rock or a big flat disk like frag plug. To block the light and shadow the zoas, when the zoas start to grow out and on the new rock, pull that rock out, rinse and repeat.
 

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this is an ugly situation...looks like just about overtaken chalice,the favia ,cut it ,they are killing it anyhow,
then proceed to remove any more that you can.
remember ,these are palys!!! PPE USE CAUTION...
 
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