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Constellation corals: How do you feel about Green Star Polyps?
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goldfish423
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Me too.
I have a Tonga branch full of it.
I have been trying to decide if I want to scrape the branch clean and paste it to the back wall.
I wanna fill the tongs with Favia.
Someone please talk me in or out!?
o2manyfish
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GSP is definitely a great beginners coral. It's hardy as heck and gives a feeling of aquarium success with its rapid growth rate. And it should be a $5 frag, if not given away like your first taste of a good drug.
Being a reef hobbyist for almost 4 decades, and having great success, people would assume I have outgrown GSP. But I haven't.
In my 400g reef I had shelf rock mounted on the back wall - so I didn't have to clean the back wall and to give me more area to grow corals. Yes I had a couple of square feet of billowing GSP on that back wall - and it looked amazing. People sometimes ignore the skills it takes to build a really beautiful reef. One of those skills is selecting the right corals for the right location. The 400g was 33" from front to back. And having a big bright green patch on the back wall drew your eye through the tank to the back to show off that depth of field. Also having bright green at the back of the tank pulls your focus to back so that you see all the other corals in front of it. If you have bright green at the front your eye doesn't see what's hiding in the back ground.
Now, I have learned that there are lots of variety to GSP. And not all GSP are the same. From Flesh colored, to green centers, to mint colors, to bright green, to metallic bright green and probably a dozen others. For me it has to be the brightest metallic green - so that it is attractive. A great big patch of a pastel green does not have the same impact as flourescent green - And while we are talking about flourescent green - let's not forget that a bright green gsp is bright green without having to have a dark blue lit aquarium. It's bright green in sunlight.
When we started our 750g in September one of the first things I looked for was ultra-bright green GSP. I didn't have a budget for stocking my tank, and could get whatever I wanted. And I wanted GSP. I sourced some gorgeous frags of Ultra Bright Metallic Green from Golden State Corals. With the 750g I once again had mounted flat slab rock onto the back wall of the aquarium. But in this tank all the aquascape is in the middle of the tank with up to a foot of clearance between the aquacape and the back wall. The GSP went on the back wall in several different places.
The new 750 is 120x48x30. With a depth of 48" from front to back of the tank. The depth of field can get lost. Having these big patches of green on the back wall really bring the depth of the tank to life. And like I mentioned earlier the bright green on the back wall pulls your eye so that you see all the other colors in the front of the tank.
Dave B
Even in this heavily blue photo at a harsh angle to the tank you can see some of the gsp on the back wall of the tank.
Being a reef hobbyist for almost 4 decades, and having great success, people would assume I have outgrown GSP. But I haven't.
In my 400g reef I had shelf rock mounted on the back wall - so I didn't have to clean the back wall and to give me more area to grow corals. Yes I had a couple of square feet of billowing GSP on that back wall - and it looked amazing. People sometimes ignore the skills it takes to build a really beautiful reef. One of those skills is selecting the right corals for the right location. The 400g was 33" from front to back. And having a big bright green patch on the back wall drew your eye through the tank to the back to show off that depth of field. Also having bright green at the back of the tank pulls your focus to back so that you see all the other corals in front of it. If you have bright green at the front your eye doesn't see what's hiding in the back ground.
Now, I have learned that there are lots of variety to GSP. And not all GSP are the same. From Flesh colored, to green centers, to mint colors, to bright green, to metallic bright green and probably a dozen others. For me it has to be the brightest metallic green - so that it is attractive. A great big patch of a pastel green does not have the same impact as flourescent green - And while we are talking about flourescent green - let's not forget that a bright green gsp is bright green without having to have a dark blue lit aquarium. It's bright green in sunlight.
When we started our 750g in September one of the first things I looked for was ultra-bright green GSP. I didn't have a budget for stocking my tank, and could get whatever I wanted. And I wanted GSP. I sourced some gorgeous frags of Ultra Bright Metallic Green from Golden State Corals. With the 750g I once again had mounted flat slab rock onto the back wall of the aquarium. But in this tank all the aquascape is in the middle of the tank with up to a foot of clearance between the aquacape and the back wall. The GSP went on the back wall in several different places.
The new 750 is 120x48x30. With a depth of 48" from front to back of the tank. The depth of field can get lost. Having these big patches of green on the back wall really bring the depth of the tank to life. And like I mentioned earlier the bright green on the back wall pulls your eye so that you see all the other colors in the front of the tank.
Dave B
Even in this heavily blue photo at a harsh angle to the tank you can see some of the gsp on the back wall of the tank.
goldfish423
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This is exactly what I wanted to hear!!GSP is definitely a great beginners coral. It's hardy as heck and gives a feeling of aquarium success with its rapid growth rate. And it should be a $5 frag, if not given away like your first taste of a good drug.
Being a reef hobbyist for almost 4 decades, and having great success, people would assume I have outgrown GSP. But I haven't.
In my 400g reef I had shelf rock mounted on the back wall - so I didn't have to clean the back wall and to give me more area to grow corals. Yes I had a couple of square feet of billowing GSP on that back wall - and it looked amazing. People sometimes ignore the skills it takes to build a really beautiful reef. One of those skills is selecting the right corals for the right location. The 400g was 33" from front to back. And having a big bright green patch on the back wall drew your eye through the tank to the back to show off that depth of field. Also having bright green at the back of the tank pulls your focus to back so that you see all the other corals in front of it. If you have bright green at the front your eye doesn't see what's hiding in the back ground.
Now, I have learned that there are lots of variety to GSP. And not all GSP are the same. From Flesh colored, to green centers, to mint colors, to bright green, to metallic bright green and probably a dozen others. For me it has to be the brightest metallic green - so that it is attractive. A great big patch of a pastel green does not have the same impact as flourescent green - And while we are talking about flourescent green - let's not forget that a bright green gsp is bright green without having to have a dark blue lit aquarium. It's bright green in sunlight.
When we started our 750g in September one of the first things I looked for was ultra-bright green GSP. I didn't have a budget for stocking my tank, and could get whatever I wanted. And I wanted GSP. I sourced some gorgeous frags of Ultra Bright Metallic Green from Golden State Corals. With the 750g I once again had mounted flat slab rock onto the back wall of the aquarium. But in this tank all the aquascape is in the middle of the tank with up to a foot of clearance between the aquacape and the back wall. The GSP went on the back wall in several different places.
The new 750 is 120x48x30. With a depth of 48" from front to back of the tank. The depth of field can get lost. Having these big patches of green on the back wall really bring the depth of the tank to life. And like I mentioned earlier the bright green on the back wall pulls your eye so that you see all the other colors in the front of the tank.
Dave B
Even in this heavily blue photo at a harsh angle to the tank you can see some of the gsp on the back wall of the tank.
Scraping the Tonga branch… fixing the GSP to the back wall! My favias get the real-estate while GSP can invade the wall.
Has anyone had any.. negative effects of it being on the back wall?
Clogged return or maybe less flow because of its wispy nature. Absolutely won’t be a make it or break it scenario. I love the flow it shows off.
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While I don't have gsp in my reef displays anymore, I always keep some in the frag tank for new reefers, and reefers who want it. For free of course. 
zoomonster
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Always loved GSP (thick polyped very green version) while at the same time hating it. Suffice it to say I don't have any in my 200g tank but might consider some isolated in a 32g build I'm getting ready to start.
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dang.. wish I was a little closer to youWhile I don't have gsp in my reef displays anymore, I always keep some in the frag tank for new reefers, and reefers who want it. For free of course.
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