Gsp going to destroy my tank.

[Notsolostfish]

I have a situation, that i would appreciate if everyone can help me with. Gsp going to take over my tank, and pretty much kill all my corals if i dont act quick. Made not very bright decision, 2 years ago to have a gsp in my tank, and put it on top where the rock is cemented and connected to the rest fof my tank now im paying for it.

What are my
Options to kill this gsp? I feel all the options i have its going to end up badly for my other corals. Gsp is very invasive, and irs growing like weed, already killed my forest fire, made a protective base over my hammer because it tried to sting it. Its insanely bad.

Is there gsp eating nudi branch? There has to be a solution.

Heres a video of the gsp


Im genuinely freaking out, because i dont know whats the proper way to get rid of it. If that rock wasnt connected to the rest of my system i wouldve took it out. This is crazy to me.

 

[smitten with ocean life]

have you tried just peeling it off?

 

[Notsolostfish]

have you tried just peeling it off?

I can try to peel some off, but some are literally encrusted to the rock, and they just grow back.. but to answer your question yes i did before and it grew even worse.

 

[Tim'sReef]

I have had sort of same situation with a montipora encrusted over too much space. One day I just started chipping away, first making some frags but then just destroy mode, I mean really scrape and chip at the rocks. After suck all the stuff up with a water change, and wait some time to see where it regrows. Then just repeat once or two times and place some new corals over the existing sections to block them from light.

 

[gkprevite]

Start somewhere where you can get under it a bit and gently peel it back. I doesn’t encrust like sps where you can’t get it off. With some Patience you could peel it completely off the rock, where you go from there is up to you.

 

[BryanM]

Peeling off, tweezers or scraping after, or if totally lost, trying to relocate other colonies and ditching the rock.

I wish I could build a fence around some of mine and contain it. My wife loves it, and I'm getting worried about the same thing.

 

[gkprevite]

Peeling off, tweezers or scraping after, or if totally lost, trying to relocate other colonies and ditching the rock.

I wish I could build a fence around some of mine and contain it. My wife loves it, and I'm getting worried about the same thing.

Oddly enough gsp is a real crowd pleaser. My rule was it always had to be on an island to prevent an all out invasion

 

[Reef Jedi]

Peeling off, tweezers or scraping after, or if totally lost, trying to relocate other colonies and ditching the rock.

I wish I could build a fence around some of mine and contain it. My wife loves it, and I'm getting worried about the same thing.

Oddly enough gsp is a real crowd pleaser. My rule was it always had to be on an island to prevent an all out invasion

I put mine on an island for this exact reason.

 

[CHSUB]

Idk but I just peel, yank, scrape, and cut weekly during WC. You can never win the war, but I always win the fight.

 

[Beefyreefy]

Make a kalk paste and squirt it with a syringe onto the problematic spots, with the wave makers off. Let it sit for an hour or 2 and then turn all the water circulation back on. Unfortunately you can only do a smallish area at a time because too much will swing your ph a lot. So start with the worst spots and work your way through it day by day. I’ve successfully eradicated paly’s, zoas, and various other pest corals (and aptasia) this way. I was worried about palytoxin when I did the paly’s but they just died with no ill effects; that being said, YMMV!

 

[dvgyfresh]

If you can source GSP eating nudibranch that would be the best

 

[Notsolostfish]

If you can source GSP eating nudibranch that would be the best

Yeah if u can find them i wish

 

[MC Blowfish]

I put mine on an island for this exact reason.

Same. It's isolated in the back on a rock.

 

[Reeferbadness]

I had an issue with Blue Clove Polyps and also had GSP that i wasn't very fond of and was spreading a bit out of control. To kill the BCP i used Fenbendazole - which was very effective and also had the benefit of killing off the GSP. To learn more about this - check out this Wordpress post by Max Draco. Note also that all corals were fine, only snails had to come out - hermits and urchins also were fine. There are also a lot of posts on this forum about Fenbendazole https://maxdraco.wordpress.com/2013...ue-cloves-polyps-xenia-aiptasia-hydriods-etc/