what kills gsp and shrooms??

[rz1a]

anyone know? the gsp and shrooms are taking up real estate and forced my SPS to be on the sandbed on a rack. ive ripped out the gsp and gave them away, but this stuff grows back too fast

[Fish4life]

You might try to kalk them but becareful becuase the tank flow might move the kalk paste around nuking unwanted corals. This might sound crazy but Ii've always used A. hynophora to kill unwanted things.

hope that helps!

cheers,

kurt

[aquasport24]

You may want to replace the whole rock and sell it to someone who likes GSP and shrooms.if it bothers you so mcuh.

[JeffCo]

Really, the only option is to take the rock's out, scrub them, and "cook" them keeping them in saltwater without any light at all for about 2 months. I have the same problem with GSP and have slowly been replacing the rocks.

[sawarf]

Ok, here is a stupid question... What is gsp?

[Bill S]

Green Star Polyps

I've seriously thought about building a "scrubber", something like this:

Take a piece of 3/4" id semi-rigid tubing. Connect a long piece of carbon fiber (maybe 6 feet?) to the outside, thru a sleeve. Mount a dremel brush (nylon, probably) on the end, and connect the other end to a dremel tool. Fire up the tool, fire up the siphon, and go to work! Grind/suck the SOBs off of it!

[Beretta]

You can give them to me, they won't grow in my tank at all.

[Richard]

I got a Blackback butterflyfish in hopes that he would get rid of the mushrooms. He didn't touch them but made short work of the gsp's (which was good). Mine hasn't bothered the clams and only nipped at the really fuzzy acros like milli's so they don't extend their polyps much now. That's also good because I like the milli's better when they're not so fuzzy.

I still haven't found a good way of getting rid of mushrooms. I did use a piece of rigid tubing to scrape/siphon them off the rocks. It was a PITA and I've done that twice and gotten rid of all the ones I could see but there are always little ones in spots I can't see or get to so they always come back in short order. Once they are really acclimated to a tank they reproduce so fast they really are worse than aiptasia.

If I could find a KNOWN fish or invert that would eat mushrooms I'd pull the acros and clams out and let it (whatever it is) go to town. Otherwise I'll have to tear my whole tank apart if I ever want to be rid of them.

[rz1a]

would something like that aptaisia X thing work or is that only specifically for apataisia?

its not like i had wanted the stuff in the first place, i had bought a tank and it came with it. now that im into SPS the gsp has gone crazy and spread over all the rocks. shrooms just take up space. ive tried cutting out the shrooms but its pretty hard to do.

i also dont want to cut the shrooms in the tank because im not sure if theyll release anything that might hurt the sps

[Fish4life]

Use kalk paste. Get some pickling lime and use a syringe (Sp!) just make sure to turn your flow off to the tank b4 applying.

cheers,

kurt

[alton]

I have been killing some brown shroom's with Aiptasia Control from Blue Life, I squirt it in there mouth