Green Star Polyp Placement

CarChase · Mar 18, 2018

Can GSP be placed higher up in the tank with higher flows and moderate light? If so what is the best way to acclimate them to these conditions?

tdileo · Mar 18, 2018

You can honestly just plop the anywhere with no acclimation and they’ll do good. Mine look their best under a minimum of 100 PAR and enough flow so that they are constantly waving, and pretty hard at that.

rkpetersen · Mar 18, 2018

I have it climbing up a back wall, and have to cut some away every now and then. Pretty easy to do. Just use a sharp knife or scalpel to make an incision where you want the new margin to be, then just peel the unwanted tissue away, it comes off the glass easily, like a thin sheet of rubber. (Doesn't come off rocks so easily.)

dougers31 · Mar 18, 2018

Yep can pretty much put them anywhere but I would never put it on your main rock work as they can become a pest real quick. Still one of my favorite softies though

Erica-Renee · Mar 18, 2018

I super glued them to my over flow box . They now cover the whole box which is 30x12x1 inch and a huge chunk of some rock work in the area. A few times a year i will scrape them back.. My tank is Mostly Easy CARE Softies.. But its A Big Tank 7 foot long

CarChase · Mar 18, 2018

Thanks, I didn’t realize they were so adaptable.

jd371 · Mar 19, 2018

I had mine on the main rocks before I knew better. Lucky I didn't glue the rocks together and I was able to remove the rock with the GSP on it and isolate it in the corner. It has since started to spread on the back glass, but it's easier to remove from there if I need to.

sponge · Mar 19, 2018

When I had them I placed it on the bottom . It gave me the appearance of having a lawn on the sand .Easier to trim the growth.

CarChase · Mar 19, 2018

My tank is less than 6 months old and not much is growing yet. Having something grow "to fast" seems like a good problem to have. But I will keep an eye on the GSP and move them when necessary.

sponge · Mar 19, 2018

I now have a HUGE colony of the purple star polops that has taken over much of all my rock I still have in that tank . Another fast grower are Xenia .Now saying that , these two different type of coral have over taken other nice frags I had . I'm glad I run more than one tank . It's growing up the back glass now since this picture.I'm going to need to trim it up .

CarChase · Mar 19, 2018

Wow amazing growth. What type of coral is the round green polyps that are also on the back wall?

sponge · Mar 19, 2018

In the center are shrooms,to the right are zoa's .The xenia also grew on the glass. I no longer am keeping xenia . Maybe if I go with a softie only tank I'll reacquire them . I've lost many of these other pieces from over growth . Just keep it trimmed and it should stay under control IMO .

Oldreefer44 · Mar 19, 2018

I put mine isolated on the back wall in very high flow just to slow down the growth. Agree with others that they will grow just about anywhere and can very quickly become a pest.

Saltyanimals · Mar 20, 2018

I'm sure we've all heard our share of warnings for GSP and Xenias. Great at first then you'll regret putting them in your tank on a piece that isn't completely isolated. i.e. island

As for GSP. Super easy and can take any/all light and flow. I personally found that strong flow really gets them to explode in growth. I started sticking frag rocks 'down stream' from my powerhead and that encourages the GSP to grow towards the frag rocks and I simply break off pieces as it grows and give/sell/trade. The risk here is when you break off pieces inside the tank you risk having polyps coming off and settle on other rocks because of flow..then you're at risk for spreading. I wish I knew how to kill smaller patches. Kalk paste didn't work =)

sponge · Mar 20, 2018

This is that same rock with the PSP,when it was covered with Xenia.

I had picked up a frag from another person and placed near the Xenia to do some chemical warfare on it .

By moving that frag around the rock , I rid myself of that coral .

I do know of others that have used paste instead of another coral

Peanut · Mar 20, 2018

sponge said:
I now have a HUGE colony of the purple star polops that has taken over much of all my rock I still have in that tank . Another fast grower are Xenia .Now saying that , these two different type of coral have over taken other nice frags I had . I'm glad I run more than one tank . It's growing up the back glass now since this picture.I'm going to need to trim it up .

yeah, um..... https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/eliminating-blue-clove-polyps-with-fenbendazole.308994/

and I kind of feel the same about the gsp...dont put it in your tank, it will spread everywhere eventually and choke out your other corals

curiouser · Mar 20, 2018

rkpetersen said:
I have it climbing up a back wall, and have to cut some away every now and then. Pretty easy to do. Just use a sharp knife or scalpel to make an incision where you want the new margin to be, then just peel the unwanted tissue away, it comes off the glass easily, like a thin sheet of rubber. (Doesn't come off rocks so easily.)

How did you get the GSP started on the back wall? Sounds like it must be beautiful.

rkpetersen · Mar 20, 2018

curiouser said:
How did you get the GSP started on the back wall? Sounds like it must be beautiful.

I propped a rock with GSP between a larger base rock and the back wall. When the GSP grew up onto the glass, I cut the rock loose and removed it.

Unfortunately some did also get onto the base rock, and while I wouldn't say I'm alarmed about, I do keep my eye on it, and one time wacked it back a bit when I didn't like the direction it was headed. :mad: It is quite pretty, like a wavy green wall carpet, but in my case it's partially hidden behind lots of other stuff, and I also keep it pruned as described. I have seen pictures of people's tanks whose entire back walls were overtaken with it, and while attractive, that is not for me.

curiouser · Mar 20, 2018

rkpetersen said:
I propped a rock with GSP between a larger base rock and the back wall. When the GSP grew up onto the glass, I cut the rock loose and removed it. Unfortunately some did also get onto the base rock, and while I wouldn't say I'm alarmed about, I do keep my eye on it, and one time wacked it back a bit when I didn't like the direction it was headed. :mad: It is quite pretty, like a wavy green wall carpet, but in my case it's partially hidden behind lots of other stuff, and I also keep it pruned as described. I have seen pictures of people's tanks whose entire back walls were overtaken with it, and while attractive, that is not for me.

Thanks. I may give it a try. I have a lot of coralline algae on the back wall. Do you know if GSP would peel off of the coralline?
Your tank looks great with all the colors.