Do GSP need alot of light and good water?

[happyface888]

My GSP's arent big and are small with little heads sticking out for the pass months, I was told these are easy kinds of corals. My lights arent that good 96watt quad pc. Water could be better. So do they require clean and high light?

[XSiVE]

nah they are very hardy, as far as corals go. give them a decent amount of water flow, though.

[happyface888]

They are being blasted but I seen in many peoples tanks they look like grass, while mines are just baby polyps sticking out.

[Pea-brain]

Alot of light? I keep mine fine under 18 watt NO flourescents in my 10 lol

Dan

[happyface888]

I can only see small heads and not like the grass kind. Any suggestions?

[Kalied20]

The amount of light seems good. How old on the bulbs? and are they in a good flow area. They usually like to be blown around a little. When they do start growing, keep an eye on them. They will grow like weeds.

[Waxxiemann]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10718324#post10718324 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kalied20
The amount of light seems good. How old on the bulbs? and are they in a good flow area. They usually like to be blown around a little. When they do start growing, keep an eye on them. They will grow like weeds.

Yeah, I've seen guys freaking out cause they are taking over the whole tank.

[Landolakes]

I swear that I could put them in my sons goldfish tank and they would not die sometimes. I have noticed that if they dont come from a healthy colony to begin with they never do well.

[Gdevine]

I started with a very small plug of neon GSP months ago...and they are thriving. Under the atinic lights they are stunning and the polyps long and swooping...really a beautiful coral.

I have a softy tank with mostly long pulsing polyps and the neon GSP's are a great addition.

My tank looks like a garden:)

[happyface888]

Aww wish mines like that, my tanks water isnt the best. And the lights are fairly new 4 months old. Mines does grow but the heads dont stick out much there like little flowers. I barly notice them....

[Gdevine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10721281#post10721281 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Aww wish mines like that, my tanks water isnt the best. And the lights are fairly new 4 months old. Mines does grow but the heads dont stick out much there like little flowers. I barly notice them....

Ok...I hear you...do you have a fuge? For a lot of softies a fuge seems to be the answer to the question.

If you don't have a fuge, do you dose your water with anything like Reef Solution or DT Phyto...? These all seem to help softies a lot.

Lighting is the second part...I run T5 HO's and WOW everything grows beyond belief.

One last thing about my tank, I use NSW drawn directly from the inlet here in Lighthouse Point...and that seem to have a big affect as well.

[happyface888]

Nope I dont have a fuge, I dont dose. I'm new to this whole coral experience.... Could phosphate have anything to do with it? I feed pellete foods and I was told they cause phosphate problems?

[Gdevine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10721326#post10721326 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Nope I dont have a fuge, I dont dose. I'm new to this whole coral experience.... Could phosphate have anything to do with it? I feed pellete foods and I was told they cause phosphate problems?

A simple answer to your question is, yes.

I run a phosphate reactor (PhosBan) and without a doubt it's a huge help to the corals...mostly the stonies...but all of them!

[Gdevine]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10721326#post10721326 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by happyface888
Nope I dont have a fuge, I dont dose. I'm new to this whole coral experience.... Could phosphate have anything to do with it? I feed pellete foods and I was told they cause phosphate problems?

You know I just noticed you have over 1,600 posts here and your questions about GSP's are rather elementary...what gives?

[happyface888]

I'm new to corals so I'm clueless, And posts dont mean anything if I have 1 or 1billion posts.Im mainly a fowlr guy....

[xtm]

GSPs can live under a 'weak' lighting and so-so water Q

However, under a 250w MH and good medium to high indirect flow, they grow thick and fluff and spreads fast! I have a thick carpet growing all over my overflow ;)

http://www.dslextreme.com/users/xtm5/reef/gsp/2.jpg

[acrylic_300]

Maybe you don't have the long flowing kind. There are a few varieties.

[Dyepes]

I did not realize there were different varieties of GSP. Happyface I also wondered if somethign was going on with my GSP. However, my problem is their tentacles or whatever do not grow as long as I have seen in many pictures, but they still spread out. I have a small rock that started with 5 polyps and now has several dozen, and now it continues to spread by a few polyps a week.

However when I ordered a frag pack through ebay a couple weeks ago, I got a set of GSP with longer tentacles. If this is the one in your case, then you in fact have different variety. I guess I have two now.