How do I move it?

[t5Nitro]

I have a star polyp frag on a rock with my acro frag. I don't want the star polyp growing into the acro, but it's already attached to the rock and spreading across the rock. How can you remove it from the rock?

[jandlms]

Take the rock out of the water and manually peel the star polyp mat off the rock. it comes off relatively easily with a tweezers or hemostat.
jandlms

[eugeneK]

don't let SP touch your acro or acro go bye bye :)

get rid of the polyps or move the acro before it got stung

I keep GSp on a little island in the corner of my tank away from main rockwork, they are beautiful but NASTy and INVASIVE and sting everythung in their path.

[t5Nitro]

You can peel it off underwater right? I can't really move that rock.

[jandlms]

Shouldn't be a problem to peel it off underwater.

[eugeneK]

dont see why not

[jmcmahon66]

Would it possible to move the acro instead? I have not had good luck peeling star polyps away. In addition, they can come back relatively fast so this may be a temporary fix. I have some GSP at the base of my digitata and it's going to start climbing soon. Good luck.