green star polyps

[miked78231]

my green star polyps seem to be under the weather. only half are coming out and the ones that are only come out half way. i just did a 10% water change yesterday and all my other softies or whatever seem to be doing fine. i know you cant really determine the problem without seeing them but maybe some one can throw out some ideas.

[pilot_bell777]

water perms? Light?

[brewercm]

Mine do that from time to time. Most likely if your other softies are doing fine they will come back all on their own. I haven't found a good way yet to kill them even if I wanted to.

[Thunderkat]

Green star polyps are like beautiful weeds, it is pretty hard to hurt them with water parameters. If your parameters were bad enough to hurt them I am sure other stuff in your tank would be hurting/dead.

I had some "green" star polyps hitch hike into my tank on some live rock. The rock was bare when I got it and now a brown version is growing on them. I also bought some really green ones that had a fungus growing on them in the store and in my tank some snails jumped on it and ate the fungus and the green stars grew back over the spot in just a few weeks. Too bad there are not more color varieties :)

[LoneStar]

I got three different types and shades in my tank. They recess every once in awhile, usually do to the lights being off or what not. They do grow like weeds and you just have to be carefull they do not come in contact with other corals like SPS.

[bigdscobra]

I have some bright greenstarts that I got from Todd awhile back, They are open and look great but they don't really grow, I have noticed far greater growth in SPS and softies but the green stars have stayed the same :wacko

[Thunderkat]

I have some bright greenstarts that I got from Todd awhile back, They are open and look great but they don't really grow, I have noticed far greater growth in SPS and softies but the green stars have stayed the same :wacko

That is because you don't compliment them or go out with them like you used to. :lol

[Andrew]

I have had them close up for a few days to a week in the past if they were disturbed.

Green stars are some of the toughest corals. . . I left one GSP rock in a covered bucket (zero light) with some LR (and a pump) for almost 6 months, and they're still alive. I was moving, and didn't have any where else to put them while i set up my new tank.

[fishypets]

I once left a rock covered with star polpys and hair alge outside for a week baking in the sun and both came back after a few weeks.

[pilot_bell777]

Ya...they are HARD to kill and get rid of....but I was looking for what would cause them to recluse...