GSP getting bothered by feather dusters

[emmysnewtank]

I just picked up a GSP frag and it has a couple of tiny feather dusters in the base/plug.

The GSP looked good for about a week but now don't want to come out. Any chance the feather dusters are bothering it?

I have them in good flow area, and while I haven't really checked parameters lately, the rest of the tank of mixed reef is blooming - bright, open and feeding.

 

[blaxsun]

Slim to none. GSP can occasionally be finicky and will close up periodically for no good reason whatsoever, ie: sand gets dumped on it, fish annoy it, etc. Chances are it's just ticked off at you because it's been acclimated to a new environment - I wouldn't sweat it.

GSP are like cockroaches and xenia - they're probably the only things that will survive the next apocalypse.

 

[bnord]

Slim to none. GSP can occasionally be finicky and will close up periodically for no good reason whatsoever, ie: sand gets dumped on it, fish annoy it, etc. Chances are it's just ticked off at you because it's been acclimated to a new environment - I wouldn't sweat it.

GSP are like cockroaches and xenia - they're probably the only things that will survive the next apocalypse.

and pocillipora

and indeed GSP just goes leathery sometimes

 

[Saltees]

The feather dusters took over my whole 120G, what you see above was covered with GSP before!

None of my fishes, such as copperband, filefish, wrasses, peppermint shrimp, etc. took a liking for it. They spread like weeds right under my Stax rockscape where I can’t reach. My Bowerbanki, Acans Lords, Scolymia were overwhelmed by them. Even Aiptasia were no match for them.

I had to throw away all my rocks and sand as a result.

Never underestimate them.