GSPs on glass

[uclajay]

how do you get your GSPs to grow on the back/side of your tank. I've seen it in a lot of tanks and i just recently saw someone mention it in a thread. He (don't remember his name) said that he planned on growing some GSPs on the wall of his tank.

[israelnajar]

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1089921

Like this?

[lvpd186]

I wanted to cover up part of my over-flow with some once, all I did was take a small piece and super-glue it to the over-flow. After a little while it started to grow from that.

[uclajay]

Thank you israel, i think i will do this. but is putting a rock with GSPs against the wall the best way to acheive this?

[flfirefighter13]

i just leaned a rock with them against the wall and up they went, I would also put some smaller rocks on the side then move them to other spots as they got covered.

[israelnajar]

Yup just lean it against the glass and they should take off. You could also do like lvpd186 did and glue them to the glass.

[uclajay]

is there a special glue i should use. i have the putty stuff that i use to glue rocks together- but it doesn't seem like this would hold very well to the acrylic?

[lvpd186]

All I used was regular gel super-glue.

[israelnajar]

If you want to use the putty, you could scuff up the acrylic before you try and adhere it. I recently super glued some GSP on my acrylic overflow box. It is a hang on so I took it out and dried the box and the GSP as much as I could and then glued it. 3 days and it is still holding.

I think the loctite superglue gel can be used underwater.