Warning AVOID DAISY POLYPS!!!

[njmaxima]

i am currently a proud owner of a 180 gallon sps/ rare lps tank...in the begining of stocking up the tank about 3 months ago i made the uneducated decission to place daisy polyps in a small corner of my tank to try and get that "filled in' look that many of us try to get in the early parts of stocking a tank!!! Big mistake!!! In less than 2 months the daisy polyps have bored yes bored them selves into almost every piece of rock and base of tank!!! They posses the ability to send out "runners" which have a acid like substances they use to burrow into rock and yes even sps!!! They send out a network of these runners and pop out all over the place!!! I recently cranked up my lighting to hopefully shock them into death..and it worked for the already acclimated polyps but the new growth and new polyps adjusted just fine!!! Soo just a little friendly heads up!!! If you want to cover every free space of rock in your tank go for it!!! If not get them out!!! goes for porcillipora damicornis as well spreads like wildfire but not nearly as bad and as fast!!!

[Chipie]

It would be nice if you could show a picture because i don't know what a daisy polyp is.
Thanks

[iamwrasseman]

hit them with joes juice or aptasia-x that will ruin them quickly ,the aptasia-x is the best for your money. you dont have to get all in one foul swoop but take a few days to get em all good luck !

[Jeff]

Originally posted by iamwrasseman
hit them with joes juice or aptasia-x that will ruin them quickly ,the aptasia-x is the best for your money. you dont have to get all in one foul swoop but take a few days to get em all good luck !

Aptasia-x will kill every trace of a coral that has infested a 180 gallon reef?

[James983]

I have the same problem with green star polyps. I keep ripping it off the rocks.

[mott768]

I too would like to see a pic of what your talking about...

[LunarDDS]

google image first hit. as for the joe's juice i think he is saying the polyps will react just like aptasia. POP!

[Orochimaru]

to think I almost bought a piece last week. Now, I really will get one since you said that

[60Cubed]

Originally posted by James983
I have the same problem with green star polyps. I keep ripping it off the rocks.

I have made that mistake b4. Boy they look pretty when they cover an entire rock. Just before they take over the next rock then the next. B4 long, you have a GSP tank! I would get that rock out and sell it to the first newb that will buy it!!!!!!!!

[Chipie]

I guess he means star polyps. I'm glad i have mine on a rock away from others. Thanks for the warning.

[Mykel Obvious]

I'm keeping a close eye on my hitchhiker star polyps... came in as a purple smear on my live rock and now they have sprouted in two places

Mine are the regular Briareum sp. (brown instead of the super electric green that people pay for) and have been slow growers for the most part when compared to my SPS, but if I could get the rock back out of the tank (on the bottom of the stack, of course) I'd scour them off with steel wool or something!!

[skyrne_isk]

Have dealt with this problem as well as my reef "grew up" and I wanted only SPS.

I have always used a syringe filled with kalk paste. I turn off the pumps (having to be verrry careful not to get it on the SPS they are close to) and inject the waxy 'mat' they are expanding after I dust the polyps. This burns them like no other and the waxy mat gets brittle and dissolves. Obviously, you have to watch your pH and kH, and if you have a lot of polyps I wouldn't do it all at once.

With a needle on the syringe you can bore into the rocks yourself and head them off. It kinda works like establishing a firebreak that firefighters do out west.

I had some polyps that were too cool to kill off, but I did need to control their growth. And note: keeping them on a seperate rock won't work. The streamers they send of will eventually break, and new polyps will end up far away from the main colony. Take it from me.