GSP on strike?

[LosingSleep]

My GSP hasn't opened all day. Parameters are fine. Is this common?

 

[Amazon]

Mine will do that some times. Then I look later on and they're open. Probably just moody, or got mowed over by a hermit.

 

[Rays]

Sometimes the'll sulk and stay closed a couple of days.

 

[ohsweetmadness]

when i first got my gsp it stayed closed for 3 weeks. then one day it was open and happy- so don't fret

 

[Cheetos]

Yeah any slight change and they tend to do that!

 

[JohnK]

yea, no worries. GSP's randomly close up sometimes, nothing to worry about. Sometimes mine will close for a week for no reason, then they're back as good as ever (my colony has been doing this for 5 yrs so I'm not worried).

Now if the question was "how do I kill my GSP's", that would be a lot harder to answer. They are indestructable. Don't worry at all.

 

[Cheetos]

yea, no worries. GSP's randomly close up sometimes, nothing to worry about. Sometimes mine will close for a week for no reason, then they're back as good as ever (my colony has been doing this for 5 yrs so I'm not worried).

Now if the question was "how do I kill my GSP's", that would be a lot harder to answer. They are indestructable. Don't worry at all.

Yeah almost as bad as Xenia!!!

 

[LosingSleep]

Yeah almost as bad as Xenia!!!

LOL, I'm not letting either get near my LR.

 

[JohnK]

I've actually lost xenia before, but not GSP's.

 

[ohsweetmadness]

Yeah almost as bad as Xenia!!!

haha i can't keep xenia for the life of me i've given up on it for now

 

[saltnut]

I have a hard time with GSP

 

[LosingSleep]

Haven't seen the polyps in 2 days.....

 

[RayD]

I have GSP that has been smothered by hairy mushroom for a year now. I recently removed the hairy mushrooms and within a few days the GSP started coming back.

Very tough coral.

 

[JohnK]

I've seen my GSP's close up for no reason for at least a week, then come back just fine. They're weird like that.

 

[LosingSleep]

A few polyps have opened this morning, hope the rest follow.

 

[Amazon]

Just a thought - have you blown the misc debris off them lately? About once I week I take a pipette and blow the stuff off them, and other corals as well. Even with decent flow they get a thin layer of "dirt" on them.

 

[LosingSleep]

Just a thought - have you blown the misc debris off them lately? About once I week I take a pipette and blow the stuff off them, and other corals as well. Even with decent flow they get a thin layer of "dirt" on them.

That's a great point. I would bet there is a healthy amount of debris.

 

[Carlo Miceli]

I have a hard time as well and all my parameters are good. Do they like high or low water flow? What is a good placement for them?

 

[DavidGallant]

I hear that GSP likes water that isn't so perfect, since that is where its natural habitat is.