polyp question

[jeffberg1941]

just bought a greenstar polyp yesterday and it hasn't opened yet. all levels are good. gravity=1.024 ammo=o nitri=0 nitra=5.0. 2 t5 lights 10000k/actinic= 10 hours. i dripped him for nearly 2 hours. opened briefly, then closed up and now my greenstar polyp is a bunch of purple bumps on a rock. should i be worried?

 

[acabgd]

It might take some time to open.

 

[E46Twist]

Where did you place it in the tank? Place it near the bottom to light acclimate it. Also make sure it is not getting too much flow. In general new corals can all stay closed for a little while, just like a new fish being shy.

 

[pyithar]

it's a pretty hardy coral. it'll be fine. give it some time.

 

[jeffberg1941]

will there be signs whether my polyp has survived or not? still a no show. can hermit crabs or snails eat or injure polyps? or am i just being paranoid?

 

[jeffberg1941]

placement is middle of tank with decent waterflow. liveaquaria lists as medium to strong flow. but tomorrow if nothing happens, i will move him lower e46twist. thanks

 

[Silvergryphon]

Give it time. Mine close up occasionally for a couple days before reopening in full glory.

 

[E46Twist]

I start all of my frags in low flow and low light areas and they usually are out within the day. I then move them up a little every 2-3 days until they are in the optimal place. With polyps, the tend to stay in if they are in too high of flow. IME GSP is with Xenia in the impossible to kill category.

 

[Hoopz87]

My Xenia coral I could have swore was dead, then a few days later it was wide open pulsing. Give it a few days

 

[jeffberg1941]

moving lower today for sure. thanks guys.i'll keep u posted

 

[Dozer1one]

Leave him where he is and wait a few more days, those things could grow in a toilet, I'm sure your tank has better params than that lol

 

[shesacharmer]

GSP is tough stuff. I'm pretty sure it will be fine.

 

[Rob6311]

Yeah sometimes it takes a while for some corals to open up, sometimes even up to a month I've heard of

 

[jeffberg1941]

Polyp opened in grand fashion.thanks to all for advice

 

[m0nkie]

congrat! zoas are pretty hardy. I don't think you need to drip corals.

float the bag to match temperature, dip it in medicine for 5 minutes, rinse, and put into tank!

2 hr drip is way overkill... I don't even drip inverts for that long

 

[myofibroblast]

GSP sounds fairly tough from reading other people's experience. I recently added GSP to my aquarium. In my experience (n=1) they are close to indestructible. I didn't know how to glue it to the live rock, so I just took that epoxy stuff from Fluval, pressed the epoxy on the live rock, and then pressed the purple mat on the epoxy hoping it would stick. In the process I'm pretty sure I crushed a few polyps hidden in the purple mat with my thumb. And I didn't acclimate them. Oopsies. Within a day they started to come out and a few days fully out. This is at top of the rock, high flow area under a aquaclear 50 output. The purple mat has already overgrown the epoxy edges and a thick carpet of GSP polyps are constantly out except during pitch dark hours. So I'm not sure it's necessarily true that GSPs don't like high flow or high intensity light. They do seem indestructible though.

Moving it around within a day seems a bit premature?

 

[whosurcaddie]

GSP likes high flow. You have to keep detritus off the mat or it will irritate it. It will also thrive in pretty much any light level. Funny thing the only thing that will kill GSP is a tank that's too clean IE zero nitrate zero phosphate. I'm going through this right now.

 

[jeffberg1941]

As a follow up, any suggestions for lighting combos for my polyps?
Installed myself a 4 bulb t5/t8 hanging unit. So far, 1- 10000k, 1-actinic, 2-normal flrst bulbs.