GSP Help
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It will do just fine on the bottom of a bare tank. Will look pretty too. Recommend you keep it an inch away from the rocks. As mentioned earlier, it grows towards the light, and will eventually (a year, maybe year and a half?) engulf all of the rockwork.
A local LFS does the same thing with Zoes on his bare bottom tank. He just trims them with a razor blade as necessary and sells the frags.
Curious if you thought of trying several types of GSP in different parts of the tank? Always been curious if they have different growth rates.
A local LFS does the same thing with Zoes on his bare bottom tank. He just trims them with a razor blade as necessary and sells the frags.
Curious if you thought of trying several types of GSP in different parts of the tank? Always been curious if they have different growth rates.
nautical_nathaniel
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GSP will grow anywhere, my buddy's decorator crab decorated itself with some so now it is a walking GSP bush ;Hilarious
If you do this you will probably want a tank with minimal Rock work or at least Rock work that has simple edges and leave plenty of room for your hands to manipulate the razor later on down the line. Lol, try practicing manipulating the razor with your rock work in place before you add the GSP and see how that feels. It's similar to setting up your rock work on a taped off part of the floor just to get an idea of how it's going to look.
Reef of Fillory
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If you can live with a 'weird' looking tank for a bit, you could try raising your rockwork on to a pvc platform or something similar, so that the GSP can grow in and "cover" the framework
TheLadyCrash
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Absolutely can be done. I’m working on a GSP wall so slightly different but this is about 2 months starting with the main piece on the left being about a half dollar.
Under the right condition, it will grow on anything that is not moving, even on corals. Trimming is necessary if you don't want it anywhere other than the area you wanted it to grow. Spare at least an inch of space all around it otherwise you will have hard time removing if it grows somewhere else. Be warned, GSP is considered a weed coral when they really take off!
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As long it get enough light at the bottom it will cover your tank bottom soon, I got a rock with tiny GSP on it and now it already covered entire rock and starting move up the next rock and my back tank walls, I'm intended to let it take over tank wall and rock work along with Xenia, it just depend how fast each one can out space each other 
Would be interested in hearing how that turns out in 6 months. [emoji3]As long it get enough light at the bottom it will cover your tank bottom soon, I got a rock with tiny GSP on it and now it already covered entire rock and starting move up the next rock and my back tank walls, I'm intended to let it take over tank wall and rock work along with Xenia, it just depend how fast each one can out space each other
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It's not as bad as people say, it's not like it automatically hooks on and spreads like wildfire, it takes time. One of my GSP I've had for abut 2 weeks and it has attached to nothing (but that's mainly because I've been poking and proding at it and trying to figure out what place it should be in) and its not like it's unhealthy, it almost doubles it's size when it's polyps come out. If you really want some fast growth they key is to feed it
