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GSP growing on glass
My green star polyps have managed to grow on the rear tank glass (creating a formation currently about 4" wide with the perimeter on the glass expanding at a rate of about 5mm+ daily, greater than its encrustment-rate on adjacent rock). When this occurs should it be removed or left alone?
Last edited by kay-bee19; 07/11/2007 at 12:59 PM. |
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lol thats cool lookin I keep telling myself i'm gonna do that...and never glue it down there.
You could do whatever you want with it. Let it grow is what i'd do...wall of grass would be pretty cool IMO. Just keep it away from other rocks is all, otherwise it WILL spread. What i'd do....let it keep growing there...its a LOT faster growing, and extremely easy to frag...just peal it back and take the scissors to it and cut however big of a piece you want. With that, you could be taking in frags to your LFS all the time, or at least trading them to local reefers
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That is freaking awesome! I have one small (1/2" rock) with some polyps...once mine spread enough, I'm going to try and frag some to the back of my tank and see if they'll do that for me...that is really cool
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I have GSP and encrusting gorg. and zoas on the back of my Acrylic tank. I just glued frags on there with superglue.
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Sweet tank, MinibowMatt!
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Yes, Minibowmatt your tank rocks
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kay-bee19, Let it grow ! I am sure it will make a great background!
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whoops, double post...
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I also have GSP growing on the back of my tank, not to mention spreading over almost 1/2 of the LR I have in my tank! The GSP also spread over the tube of a large feather duster, so now it's just GSP, with the feather duster's crown poking out the top.
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awsome idea, to glue frags of encrusting corals to back of glass as backdrop. Brilliant!!
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Okay, thanks everyone for the input. I'll go ahead and leave it be.
Here are some final pics showing growth (I boxed two coraline blotches in red to note the gsp's spread over a week's time): 11 Jul 07 19 Jul 07 |
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Wow... that stuff is growing like a weed. If you ever decide to frag it, I will gladly take some .
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I glued some GSP onto the back of my tank. I figure it will camoflage the return. The pieces are from a couple of different frag swaps, so the color variation looks cool.
Someone told me it grew on her heater and caused it to stop working. Who knows, if that was the cause or not. I'll keep it pruned and pass on the excess.
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It's so cool to have them grow on the glass.
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Keep it. If you decide you don't want it, use a new razor blade to scrape it and mount it on frag plugs.
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Than you can blow it all on more corals!
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That is a beautiful patch of GSP! I would let it grow, it looks awesome.
I recently glued a small peice from my colony to my back glass and it seems to be doing very well. I also have a hairy mushroom that decided to jump to the back glass, i think im going to try my favorite zoos next and see how they do. 2 of my sump walls are covered in coral too i have anthillia going nuts on one side and yellow colony polyps on the other. Seems the amphipods keep the yellow colony in check down there because there is nothing to eat them and they get out of control. |
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I love that. guess I gotta try it too. I also have some pink star polyps. Can they co-exist next to the greens??
Also, I have seen GSP that have long flowy polyps, but mine are neon GSP that have shorter polyps like those above. Are they two seperate types or do they just grow longer with time? I will try to get a pic when they decide to open up.
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I'd let it grow...but be careful of it attaching to things you don't want it too...
I've had gsp wall on the back of my tank before. I also have had anthelia and xenia growing on the glass...all of it is neat I think |
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Yeah I have a neon green type too and the polyps are much shorter than others I have seen. Some people I have seen are like 2-4" lon and mine are an 1" tops.......
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the extention on mine aree about 1/8-1/4", but very fluorescent withpurple centers.
I think I will post a pic of a frag since the mother colony doesn't look so hot.
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Heres my GSP frags and a pitiful shot of the pitiful mother colony. I have no idea what is going on with that thing. Hasn't been right since before I fragged from it.
Bad photos, sorry. Bad photos of the mother colony Any help is appreciated
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i had mine growing on my corner overflow,looks awsome swaying in the current
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I have pointed the flow more towards the polyps annd I have some koralias coming soon, so I hope that helps.
Thanks for the reply as I am totally stumped by the way they look. The frags are coming along great and this is the mother colony. ??? Should I give it another scrub to get that cyano off?
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