WANT green star polys on back glass?

[surfingdude]

I got some green stars and absolutely love them...I know many dont because they are fast growers and go everywhere. I have one on its own rock (island) and would think in 30 days the whole rock will be covered. Love the flow and color.

Would love to get some on the back glass...Do they magnetic frag doodads...not sure what they are called, pardon the ignorance. Basically I want to glue a rock to a frag plug thats magnetic, so I can have the green stars grow on the rock...and will they spread on the back glass once it covers the rock? Thought about glue but not sure how good it will stick.

Thanks

 

[Sk8r]

I assure you they WILL take the glass---I had to peel a foot-wide patch off my side glass every month. Beware of letting them take the downflow box: if they block the intakes it can flood your floor.

 

[chaudhry]

I had it on my back glass in the previous tank. In new tank i have it on my overflow. Happy and growing.
I did my best but could never keep it to stay on the back glass with glue.
So, i came up with this idea. It worked really well. I took 2 flat magnets. Glued green star to one stick it to the back glass with the help of other magnet from outside.

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[farfromsea]

I did that with magnetic frag plugs. I'm horrible at glueing (not sure why total embarrassment) so what I did was use a rubber band on the magnetic plug. Those magnets are strong! Anyhow over time the GSP split where the rubber band was and a small piece started floating around the tank (it basically happened like those terrible people that rubber off dog tails)

Now it is growing up the glass and I am happy. Have to start low because anecdotally people report it like to grow up and out but not down

Sorry my pic is garbage. But the white-looking circular growth on the top of the GSP is the new growth. It is happy


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[homer1475]

I placed mine on the sandbed real close to the glass. It eventually started crawling up and I cut the piece on the sandbed off. It now covers 1/2 my back glass.

 

[canadianeh]

I am interested on this idea as well. I think it looks better than just black glass.

What kind of husbandry I am looking at if I want to grow GSP on the glass? How to make sure they don't grow pass the top water line? Or, it won't?

How hard is it to peel them off from the glass if they start to grow to the side of the glass? What tools do you use to peel them off? Thanks

 

[daplatapus]

I used a crapped out pump magnet to get mine started. Just pull the "C" shaped mount of the wet side of any Jabeo, Tunze, or similar mounted pump (they're just held on by 3 rubber isolation mounts) and either glue some GSP on it or place near where it's growing now.

 

[ericarenee]

Just lean the rock against the glass they will climb right on up... i have them and Anthelia all over the back of my Big tank... You do have to trim that at the top of you weir or they will climb over.. anthelia is worse the gsp because of the way it spreads. it will grow inside of my over flow .

 

[canadianeh]

Just lean the rock against the glass they will climb right on up... i have them and Anthelia all over the back of my Big tank... You do have to trim that at the top of you weir or they will climb over.. anthelia is worse the gsp because of the way it spreads. it will grow inside of my over flow .

Will it grow past the top water line? Or, it will stop growing on the water line since it "knows" there is no water pass the line?

You have pic of yours?

 

[surfingdude]

I placed mine on the sandbed real close to the glass. It eventually started crawling up and I cut the piece on the sandbed off. It now covers 1/2 my back glass.

Didnt realize they would climb the glass. Very cool and will go this route.

are they easy to trim back once they on the glass?

 

[anthonys51]

yes easy to scrap with a razor blade off glass. just make sure it doesnt touch rock its hard to get off the rock and can even grow where there is no light

 

[homer1475]

Just slice the mat with a razor blade and it usually peels right off. Mine hasnt grown up far enough to be near the water line, but I would assume it would stop since it needs water to survive.

 

[Jazeel55]

I was actually thinking of doing the same thing


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[chaudhry]

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[surfingdude]

digging that!

 

[enveetie]

Just an FYI, as GSP crawled up the overflows it started to interfere with the overflow water level settings of my Herbie set up (a previous tank of mine).

Pulling off the GSP for maintenance required more adjustment, and as it grew back... more adjustment. I personally prefer not to let GSP do that again. It was such a headache and it didn't look at nice as I figured it might.