My GSP closed up and it has not started to open back up

Greatdane · Jul 22, 2020

So I have a biocube 32, and my GSP has just started to close up and it has not opened back up at all since last night. All of our other coral is doing fine, my ricordia just dropped 4 other ricordeas, all my zoas are growing, my palythoa is hard to tell it’s growth anymore the stalks are so close together we have 2 torches that are wide open everyday and we have a waving hands that is growing a lot. I have no idea why the GSP would do this do you?

Greatdane · Jul 22, 2020

Greatdane said:
So I have a biocube 32, and my GSP has just started to close up and it has not opened back up at all since last night. All of our other coral is doing fine, my ricordia just dropped 4 other ricordeas, all my zoas are growing, my palythoa is hard to tell it’s growth anymore the stalks are so close together we have 2 torches that are wide open everyday and we have a waving hands that is growing a lot. I have no idea why the GSP would do this do you?

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Not sure why it did the emergency thing it’s not really a emergency

TheShrimpNibbler · Jul 22, 2020

Make sure that there are no amphipods or algae on it. If either one of those is on it, then remove it from the coral. It may just need some time to open back up. My gsp likes to close up for no reason at all sometimes, and then it opens back up later. Have you done any tank maintenance in the past day or so that could have irritated it?

Greatdane · Jul 22, 2020

TheShrimpNibbler said:
Make sure that there are no amphipods or algae on it. If either one of those is on it, then remove it from the coral. It may just need some time to open back up. My gsp likes to close up for no reason at all sometimes, and then it opens back up later. Have you done any tank maintenance in the past day or so that could have irritated it?

We took a turkey Baster to it to blow the algae off that was 2 days ago when it closed but opened back for the first time

TheShrimpNibbler · Jul 22, 2020

Greatdane said:
We took a turkey Baster to it to blow the algae off that was 2 days ago when it closed but opened back for the first time

I’m a little confused. Are you saying that after you basted it, it opened back up for a little while, but then closed back up? Or are you saying that it has opened back up since you posted the thread, and is currently open? My green star polyps have closed up after I blasted them before, but they always open up after a couple days and are just fine.

jcbasile · Jul 22, 2020

Mine closed for about a week and wouldn’t open, along with my pulsing Xenia which decided to fully close too. My Duncan, zoas and candy canes were doing fine like yours. After about a week and water changes the GSP opened fully. I also started dosing Kent’s iodide because soft corals use up lots of that so I’d look into testing for that and possibly dosing some as well if time alone doesn’t fix it.

Red Leader · Jul 22, 2020

GSP close up for a few days at a time for no apparent reason and then open up like nothing happened. Give it a few days.

Everything Aquatics · Jul 22, 2020

Red Leader said:
GSP close up for a few days at a time for no apparent reason and then open up like nothing happened. Give it a few days.

+1

Big_Mclargehuge · Jul 22, 2020

My GSP was closed for days and opened up out of nowhere. I'm sure it will be fine. Test your parameters but don't mess with the coral or mess with the tank too much. Stability is key.

tnewell · Oct 13, 2020

Greatdane said:
So I have a biocube 32, and my GSP has just started to close up and it has not opened back up at all since last night. All of our other coral is doing fine, my ricordia just dropped 4 other ricordeas, all my zoas are growing, my palythoa is hard to tell it’s growth anymore the stalks are so close together we have 2 torches that are wide open everyday and we have a waving hands that is growing a lot. I have no idea why the GSP would do this do you?

My gsp stayed closed for 3 weeks and my water parameters were perfect, but when it opened up it grew insanely fast.