Hey Guys! This is my first post as I am new to the forum. I haven't need help before as I always asked a close friend of mine but I feel as though I am annoying him, so I came here. I grabbed some GSP from this friend and it's doing amazing. I put it on the edge of my tank, just meeting his requirments are to keep him from growing too fast and a frogspawn near by to keep him in check. Now about a week ago I grabbed my friends last peice of GSP. It hadn't opened in his tank for around a month as he was having some issues. I took it home and in about 2 days it opened. Now it hasn't extended it's polyps to full length but there is no green pigment on it at all. It just has pink ends. Any idea why this is and any idea how to fix it?
GSP question
- Thread starter Reefseed
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garygonzales
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could just be a different kind of gsp....some are green and some are like brownish all depends..i dont think your doing anything wrong
SuperChimps
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Hi,
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I actually just logged in here for the first time in ages to ask a different GSP question...
Mine is spreading too much (poor planning on my part, yes) and I wanted to know if there were any corals I could propagate on the rocks 'next door' to keep it at bay. So is frog spawn a good candidate?
Also (on topic) I read somewhere that iodine is necessary for good star polyp growth, so maybe that would help? Chances are it'll just come good anyway and grow like crazy anyway
Don't want to hijack the thread, but I actually just logged in here for the first time in ages to ask a different GSP question...
Mine is spreading too much (poor planning on my part, yes) and I wanted to know if there were any corals I could propagate on the rocks 'next door' to keep it at bay. So is frog spawn a good candidate?
Also (on topic) I read somewhere that iodine is necessary for good star polyp growth, so maybe that would help? Chances are it'll just come good anyway and grow like crazy anyway
You're likely to do more harm than good, so I wouldn't. As mentioned it could be a different type of GSP. Just give it time, if it wasn't doing well before it's just going to need time to recover.
Thanks for all the help! I guess it was just slowly starting to regain its health because now it is opening more and has lots of green.
As for you Superchimps. I'm not sure if a frogspawn will hold it back. I've placed a frogspawn near mine to control it but the way I set up my tank it hasn't been able to reach the frogspawn. What I've done is restrict the flow to the GSP and have it in medium to low light. I still feed it but because I've restricted it from thriving it has restricted growth. I'm not sure if that's possible for your tank setup but just an idea. You could put rubble in it's way and make frags of the extra. I assume any stinging coral would hold it back; Any anemone (curious if maxi mini carpet would because it grabs it's prey and stings), hammer coral, frogspawn, etc. many people say it works so I'd give it a try. Hope that helps. I'll try and post a picture of my setup with my GSP.
As for you Superchimps. I'm not sure if a frogspawn will hold it back. I've placed a frogspawn near mine to control it but the way I set up my tank it hasn't been able to reach the frogspawn. What I've done is restrict the flow to the GSP and have it in medium to low light. I still feed it but because I've restricted it from thriving it has restricted growth. I'm not sure if that's possible for your tank setup but just an idea. You could put rubble in it's way and make frags of the extra. I assume any stinging coral would hold it back; Any anemone (curious if maxi mini carpet would because it grabs it's prey and stings), hammer coral, frogspawn, etc. many people say it works so I'd give it a try. Hope that helps. I'll try and post a picture of my setup with my GSP.
SuperChimps
New member
Cool, thanks Reefseed. It sounds like you planned it a lot better than I did lol. It was a first coral of mine, and all I knew was that it was pretty easy to keep. Sadly its on a rock bang in the middle of the major rockwork pile.
still i'll cut it back ruthlessly and try the rubble idea. Plus a stinging coral or two nearby.
still i'll cut it back ruthlessly and try the rubble idea. Plus a stinging coral or two nearby.
SuperChimps
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nice looking tank too by the way 
