Pest star polyps?

Those are just your typical green polyps. They do grow like
weeds......Its always been suggested to keep em away and off yur live
rock or they willtake over. I never have problems cutting them back,
by merely peeling the mat off the live rock. They like good current
flow and settle for half decent lights.........and then grow like
weeds. I like how they look on the back of a tank on the glass.



On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:15:38 -0800, Kelsey Cummings
wrote:

I've got a serious case of runaway growth over the rock work in my tank
with this brown star polyp-ish pest. It has 8 tentacles and encrusts
like made by sending out tubes from which the polyps grow. I think the
only way to get rid of it is going to be to pull out the infected pieces
of rock and scrub it off but I'm curious if anyone can help identify it.
Maybe then someone can suggest something that will eat it.

I actually carried it over from my first tank where it never grew much.
I think it likes the halides.

http://www.sonic.net/~kgc/reef/pest-polyp.jpg

-K



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