For anyone who’s wondering how to get to stick to the back wall of your tank: What I did was glue a piece of green star polyp onto a frag rack or a rock with a flat side, I did both and let them grow, then once those small pieces attached themselves onto the rock and frag rack, I placed the rock and rack on my sand bed, as low as I could get it, and pushed it against the wall of my tank. (The frag rack was held up against the wall by magnets) Over a 3 month period they both grew from the rock and onto the back glass wall of my tank on their own and they have now grown into mats of gsp that are 3 inches wide. I tried gluing a frag of it directly to the wall but it would always fall off after a day or two. I did this in my Red Sea reefer 170 for reference.
I cut the purple mat into little pieces and then super glue them to the glass job done,and then I have xenia covering all my live rock that looks wicked
This is perfect timing! I just set up my Reefer 170 last week and thought I’d do a GSP wall. I started at the bottom right at the sand bed so I guess I’ll leave it be and just see what happens. Thanks for the tips!
I have a lot of gsp and love it, now it doesn’t matter if you have it on a single rock, the gsp will grow under the sand I took a 2” x 2” piece from under the sand that was buried and I was thinking that was only little strip but no, it was big and I glue it to another rock and is spreading. Gsp will grow under sand buried trying to reach another rock or surface
Could you please explain how to best mount on an acrylic back? I have a Red Sea Max. I had a gsp frag on the back for a couple weeks but just fell off using locktite. Also are you dosing a lot? Water change schedule? Love your zoa’s! Just subscribed. Many thanks
I used polyplab glue and works on acrylic too. I do dose a lot of stuff which you can see on my previous videos. I don’t do wTerchanges at all which you can also watch that video I have here :)
What I did was glue a piece of green star polyp onto a frag rack or a rock with a flat side, I did both and let them grow, then once those small pieces attached themselves onto the rock and frag rack, I placed the rock and rack on my sand bed, as low as I could get it, and pushed it against the wall of my tank. (The frag rack was held up against the wall by magnets) Over a 3 month period they both grew from the rock and onto the back glass wall of my tank on their own and they have now grown into mats of gsp that are 3 inches wide. I tried gluing a frag of it directly to the wall but it would always fall off after a day or two.
I've literally just stuck mine to the rear of the tank. Lucky enough my LFS had these really nice flat peices. Like bits of leather these are. Just glued them midway down the tank 😀 il come back ina. Few weeks and see How's its doing
I saw your video after I pasted my GSP frag to the back wall of my tank. I pasted in just below the top water level in my tank which was you have advised not to do. I will let it be there and see how it goes. I also realised that when you put on top and if you have a net over you tank to stop fish from jumping, the fram of the net will block the light going to the coral. I guess I did a mistake by putting it on the top.
My tank does not have the overflow system.I am using canister filters. How do I do a water change with the GSP on the back glass without the water level dropping below and leaving the GSP out of water?
I love GSP as a landscape engineer by trade, GPS is one of the few corals that can substitute the greenery of a garden, and as a designer I know that the color green needs to be in the majority at least 60/40 preferably 70/30 or else the rest of the colors go mumbo jumbo. I see so many tanks where the aqua scaping is just a mess with that I mean that every individual coral is lovely, but trying to blend all colors, shapes just makes it messy, The most beautiful saltwater scape I have ever seen was made up of GPS and an equally green Monti, they were placed in an interweaving formation separate bases ofc the flowlines of the GPS with the static/statuesque Monti were so impactful and then just a few soft corals toadstools for the vertical aspect, it was so harmonious and this guy an artist just had 3 fish in a 900 liter tank A Desjardini tang, a C. acanthops and a fairy wrasse don´t remember what spec. now. So so simple, so so hard to do I loved it I know it is not for everyone but too many put everything in it just becomes too much you can´t appreciate the single individuals it gets too busy,
What camera are you using by the way? In all your videos your colors are brilliant! When I shoot video on my Google Pixel 2 phone and even my GoPro7 the blue light on my tank really throws my camera off.
I spent all day searching for this while planning a reef tank. it looks great. and I'm so sold on it! the back of my tank is acrylic but it has like ripples will it still be easy to remove. i dont expect it to be that easy but i am hoping still easy enough. what are the dimensions of the display area of your tank?
mind sharing what brand / kind of glue you used to stick it to the glass wall? i tried 2 times and after a day or two, it will unattached. always enjoy watching your tank videos.
Great video.. new to hobby only 4 years and yet to add corals to my 2 tanks. Gps might just be my first, could you tell me what glue is safe to use and do you recommend QT the GPS? If so some tips how to thanks you!
I just got a great ultra green gsp and I'm doing the same thing on the back wall of my AIO, fortunately I put it near the bottom. As far as future videos, I'd love to get info on LPS, go gonis, acans, scolis... I'm pretty into that right now
would it be safe if you place a clear PETG plastic with suction cups and have the gsp glued to that? that way it doesnt ruin the actual back of the fishtank.
I'm trying to get my lights right and wear to place my corals. I have some that reach for the light, should I put them down farther? Plus should I put my lights closer?
I wonder how heavy it gets ? As in straining the back glass? Its already pretty heavy from 3 coats of black paint lol. Your thoughts? Its a typical 48 inch 55 gallon.
Hi im just starting out with a few zoas and a couple of cloves of firework polyps. My tank is 8 months old and my parameters are fine apart from my KH which i have found the problem and ive addressed that. My question is the corals are opening and closing up quite a lot is this normal or could it be light, food......???
I love the GSP background. I picked up a 2"x2" frag 3 weeks ago but it won't open! I think it's a dud! Though it was open in the store. My other corals are doing fine so I'm really not sure what's going on. Parameters are all next to near ideal as well. I have ICP test results coming in 2 days so maybe there's something up that I'm unaware of. Guess I'll soon see. Im going to take the rock it's on and glue it to the back of my tank. If only it would open!
@@deanjewell8170 Well aware lol GSP will NOT grow in my display tank. The purple mat eventually melts and disintegrates. Honestly GSP is a nuisance in my opinion unless you can keep it on a back wall like you have it will only take over. So I'm fine not having it.
I have never really like GSP. reminds me to much of a weed, but does look very nice on your background. How big is your tankk. Are those baby tangs? I hate to sound like tang police but I cant go bigger than 50 gallons and I want a tang so bad, so thinking about putting tank in den where I have a longer wall, my family room is taken by a huge builtin shelving around a firplace the sliding doors couch ect, so i have a 36 inch area next to a slider. Yours seem to be doin well, maybe because your tanks seems deeper from back to front than the ones I have been seeing to fit a 36 inch area. Absolutely my fave tank on youtube!
@@johnbernier1025 i used superglue to glue a frag on to the lower part of my backwall. After a few weeks it started to grow flat onto the wall. Maybe it also has to do with the material of the backwall. My backwall is made out of a rough acrylic so the GSP has lots of grip. Do you have a normal glas background? Maybe it cant attach itself on to the glas.
1 ) Wipe off the glass first ..It has a slime algea on it that you can't see..that is causing your glue to not stick... 2) When you put glue on the back of the coral press the coral a bit on the glass enough to smush the glue on glass then move it off the glass then push it back onto the glass and then move it off the glass then on and then press firmly..What your doing is stringing the glue so that the glue gets stringy ...this way you don't end up with a big bubble of glue that eventually peels right off like a lump of puddy on oil... Hopefully this'll help ya..
I intentionally made my GSP touch a rock base so it would have a way to climb into it. May I have a zooanthid frag in the same rock as the GSP? Are they agressive with each other?
hi... New subbie here. I have just discovered your channel and loving the content. This GSP had worried me tbh but this has made me feel a lot better about putting it into a new tank project. I REALLY wanted to have a backdrop as beautiful as this one but thinking about having to remove it at some point was a concern. .. not any more. Thanks :)
please tell me what are the water per metre and what are the colour you put on your light and also do you change the water every weekly because what happened I have a one in my tank nearly one year it's not spread at all Please help me any one
EAT SLEEP Reef I’m around the SoCal area and interest on buying a piece of your beautiful GSP I’m wondering if you’re still up for selling a piece of it ?
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Good tips for GSP. The one about not putting it high is a great tip. I learned too later and after a few months it was near the top.
Ya haha it always grows toward light
This is definitely one of the best, most beautiful tanks I've ever seen. Bravo.
All solid tips regarding growing GSP! I was also able to hold a perimeter with Aptasia-X
That stuff works great for that too
For anyone who’s wondering how to get to stick to the back wall of your tank:
What I did was glue a piece of green star polyp onto a frag rack or a rock with a flat side, I did both and let them grow, then once those small pieces attached themselves onto the rock and frag rack, I placed the rock and rack on my sand bed, as low as I could get it, and pushed it against the wall of my tank. (The frag rack was held up against the wall by magnets) Over a 3 month period they both grew from the rock and onto the back glass wall of my tank on their own and they have now grown into mats of gsp that are 3 inches wide. I tried gluing a frag of it directly to the wall but it would always fall off after a day or two. I did this in my Red Sea reefer 170 for reference.
Awesome idea thanks for the tip
Absolutely love this tank. Gsp in my opinion is one of the most attractive corals due to color variation as well as the movement it adds.
Couldn’t agree more 🤙🏼
Love the tank and the GSP is pretty nice. Great to see some reefers using GSP fill in spaces.
These deep blue videos deserve a ASMR audio track.
Hahahahahaha
I cut the purple mat into little pieces and then super glue them to the glass job done,and then I have xenia covering all my live rock that looks wicked
Your tank is insane ! I don’t recall seeing colors so vibrant and beautiful . Nice work
Thanks :)
This is perfect timing! I just set up my Reefer 170 last week and thought I’d do a GSP wall. I started at the bottom right at the sand bed so I guess I’ll leave it be and just see what happens. Thanks for the tips!
How did your tank turn out?
Yea how is youre tank doing bro?
I'm very glad that you made a video of this specific GSP! I WAS CURIOUS AS WELL. Another great video. Thanks again for sharing.
Did the same with my 100g. Makes a good backdrop and adds motion. The rest of tank is sps dom. I love the color in your tank.
you do have beauty of a tank. I am planning on gsp as some tank cover and I just love the movement it has.
I have a lot of gsp and love it, now it doesn’t matter if you have it on a single rock, the gsp will grow under the sand I took a 2” x 2” piece from under the sand that was buried and I was thinking that was only little strip but no, it was big and I glue it to another rock and is spreading.
Gsp will grow under sand buried trying to reach another rock or surface
Great tips! Definitely considering doing this as well. Also heard that GSP can become somewhat of a carbon sink, home for pods etc
Absolutely can for sure
Home for pods 😳
Mandarin fish time
How do you do a hippo tang in such a small tank too won’t they stress??? And if they stress can cause ick
Could you please explain how to best mount on an acrylic back? I have a Red Sea Max. I had a gsp frag on the back for a couple weeks but just fell off using locktite. Also are you dosing a lot? Water change schedule? Love your zoa’s! Just subscribed.
Many thanks
I used polyplab glue and works on acrylic too. I do dose a lot of stuff which you can see on my previous videos. I don’t do wTerchanges at all which you can also watch that video I have here :)
Very cool I will check the vids and thank you for the glue advice!
love it...im totaly letting gsp go wild on the back and sides of my 2 future big builds.
I think you just got a bunch of people that want to grow gsp now on the back wall thanks for the tip.
We can expect GSP sales to skyrocket hahahaha 👆🤙🏼😊
GPS is one of my favorites but you do have to manage it. Great tips.
Mines dont seem to grow lol
Please do some more video's! Great information, the flow of the video is has good as in the tank!
How do you put it on the back?
Do you just glue the whole frag there?
@Garrett Cumber for the one in this video,not yet, but I heard that people use aquarium putty for example.
Yes I cut the base of the plug and glued it to the wall with very little glue then once it spreads I remove the plug off the wall
You just have to lean a rock that has it growing on it on the back wall it will spread to it all I do
@@creepy6208 hmm i think u do
You did good the back drop GSP looks great back there!
GOALS!!! Do you have a placement map available for what and where you placed these corals?
How many gallons is that beautiful aquarium?
I may have missed it, but did you mention how you got it to stay on the back wall?? If not, could you please inform us? Thanks!!
I was wondering this too
What I did was glue a piece of green star polyp onto a frag rack or a rock with a flat side, I did both and let them grow, then once those small pieces attached themselves onto the rock and frag rack, I placed the rock and rack on my sand bed, as low as I could get it, and pushed it against the wall of my tank. (The frag rack was held up against the wall by magnets) Over a 3 month period they both grew from the rock and onto the back glass wall of my tank on their own and they have now grown into mats of gsp that are 3 inches wide. I tried gluing a frag of it directly to the wall but it would always fall off after a day or two.
What is the crazy blue zoa looking coral
I've literally just stuck mine to the rear of the tank. Lucky enough my LFS had these really nice flat peices. Like bits of leather these are. Just glued them midway down the tank 😀 il come back ina. Few weeks and see How's its doing
Dude your tank is amazing. Love ur vids keep up the good work man 👍
Excellent explanation of the Pro’s and Con’s of GSP placement in the aquarium. 👍🏼
Nice tank mate! What is that blue zoa called on the left in that zoa garden? It's beautiful
I saw your video after I pasted my GSP frag to the back wall of my tank. I pasted in just below the top water level in my tank which was you have advised not to do. I will let it be there and see how it goes. I also realised that when you put on top and if you have a net over you tank to stop fish from jumping, the fram of the net will block the light going to the coral. I guess I did a mistake by putting it on the top.
My tank does not have the overflow system.I am using canister filters. How do I do a water change with the GSP on the back glass without the water level dropping below and leaving the GSP out of water?
Great idea as a filler! Absolutely beautiful tank. New reefer has subscribed, great info
I love GSP as a landscape engineer by trade, GPS is one of the few corals that can substitute the greenery of a garden, and as a designer I know that the color green needs to be in the majority at least 60/40 preferably 70/30 or else the rest of the colors go mumbo jumbo. I see so many tanks where the aqua scaping is just a mess with that I mean that every individual coral is lovely, but trying to blend all colors, shapes just makes it messy, The most beautiful saltwater scape I have ever seen was made up of GPS and an equally green Monti, they were placed in an interweaving formation separate bases ofc the flowlines of the GPS with the static/statuesque Monti were so impactful and then just a few soft corals toadstools for the vertical aspect, it was so harmonious and this guy an artist just had 3 fish in a 900 liter tank A Desjardini tang, a C. acanthops and a fairy wrasse don´t remember what spec. now. So so simple, so so hard to do I loved it I know it is not for everyone but too many put everything in it just becomes too much you can´t appreciate the single individuals it gets too busy,
What camera are you using by the way? In all your videos your colors are brilliant! When I shoot video on my Google Pixel 2 phone and even my GoPro7 the blue light on my tank really throws my camera off.
I spent all day searching for this while planning a reef tank. it looks great. and I'm so sold on it! the back of my tank is acrylic but it has like ripples will it still be easy to remove. i dont expect it to be that easy but i am hoping still easy enough.
what are the dimensions of the display area of your tank?
mind sharing what brand / kind of glue you used to stick it to the glass wall? i tried 2 times and after a day or two, it will unattached. always enjoy watching your tank videos.
Hey Dark. Did you figure it out?
You dont need to glue it
It will grow up by itself
I have a textured acrylic background so I'd think in that case it's not going to peel off easily.
tank looks amazing
Thanks 😊🤙🏼
Great video.. new to hobby only 4 years and yet to add corals to my 2 tanks. Gps might just be my first, could you tell me what glue is safe to use and do you recommend QT the GPS? If so some tips how to thanks you!
Excellent tips for managing and controlling gsp
What a fantastic tank. Absolutely beautiful. What do u shoot ur videos with? Colors come through beautifully.
iPhone 10
I just got a great ultra green gsp and I'm doing the same thing on the back wall of my AIO, fortunately I put it near the bottom. As far as future videos, I'd love to get info on LPS, go gonis, acans, scolis... I'm pretty into that right now
It will look great over time once it grows in :) acans and scolys are easy I will make a video :)
When it comes to night time lighting. Should you turn of the light completely, or use blue light for your green star polyps?
Does it stick to glass? My overflow is smooth glass not plastic. Any tips on what to glue on back wall for it to grow?
How to make it stay on the back ground, do you used special glue? please advise..
I have the same ultra green it’s very common now back in 2007 when the frag mine came from was the brightest GSP I’ve ever seen
I put my new GSP towards the back because I wanted to have a green wall as a background. I think it looks great.
would it be safe if you place a clear PETG plastic with suction cups and have the gsp glued to that? that way it doesnt ruin the actual back of the fishtank.
I'm trying to get my lights right and wear to place my corals. I have some that reach for the light, should I put them down farther? Plus should I put my lights closer?
I wonder how heavy it gets ? As in straining the back glass? Its already pretty heavy from 3 coats of black paint lol. Your thoughts? Its a typical 48 inch 55 gallon.
Hi im just starting out with a few zoas and a couple of cloves of firework polyps. My tank is 8 months old and my parameters are fine apart from my KH which i have found the problem and ive addressed that. My question is the corals are opening and closing up quite a lot is this normal or could it be light, food......???
Are the SPS mounted to the back wall too?
Will GSP grow over other coral or will it grow around it ? Cheers .
Did you super glue the initial piece to the glass?
Yes I did
Gorgeous tank!
A piece of my rock is touching the lower part, if I place it ontop of that it should grow up right not down toward the rock???
I love the GSP background. I picked up a 2"x2" frag 3 weeks ago but it won't open! I think it's a dud! Though it was open in the store. My other corals are doing fine so I'm really not sure what's going on. Parameters are all next to near ideal as well. I have ICP test results coming in 2 days so maybe there's something up that I'm unaware of. Guess I'll soon see. Im going to take the rock it's on and glue it to the back of my tank. If only it would open!
As long as the mat still has that purple appearance it should be fine. GSP like to pout sometimes. It will eventually come around.
@@deanjewell8170 Well aware lol GSP will NOT grow in my display tank. The purple mat eventually melts and disintegrates. Honestly GSP is a nuisance in my opinion unless you can keep it on a back wall like you have it will only take over. So I'm fine not having it.
how big of a tank is that? it looks amazing! great job
Amazing looking tank!
Beautiful tank. Gives us something to shoot for!
I have never really like GSP. reminds me to much of a weed, but does look very nice on your background. How big is your tankk. Are those baby tangs? I hate to sound like tang police but I cant go bigger than 50 gallons and I want a tang so bad, so thinking about putting tank in den where I have a longer wall, my family room is taken by a huge builtin shelving around a firplace the sliding doors couch ect, so i have a 36 inch area next to a slider. Yours seem to be doin well, maybe because your tanks seems deeper from back to front than the ones I have been seeing to fit a 36 inch area. Absolutely my fave tank on youtube!
so to start it did you just glue the frag on the back of your tank?
Can’t get mine to stay either. Did you find a solution?
@@johnbernier1025 i used superglue to glue a frag on to the lower part of my backwall. After a few weeks it started to grow flat onto the wall. Maybe it also has to do with the material of the backwall. My backwall is made out of a rough acrylic so the GSP has lots of grip. Do you have a normal glas background? Maybe it cant attach itself on to the glas.
How do you attach the gsp to the wall if it’s on a frag plug
Joshy Jock Peel it off the plug and then use cyanoacrylate to glue it to the wall.
Or break the stem off of the plug and superglue the frag plug to the back wall of your tank.
Very good GSP
How can you do a yellow tang in such a small tank
Wow amazing tank!
How does it cope with being taken out of water, say during a water change?
Hi reef looking Beautiful nice video mate 👍
Thanks :)
Love your reef tank
My gap frag won’t stay glued on the back wall
Im thinking I'm going to try it.....just subscribed
Appreciate the sub!
What’s the best way to attach it to the wall?
How do you attach it to the back? With glue?
Super helpful thank you
How did you glue your gsp to the glass, mine keeps falling off !
1 ) Wipe off the glass first ..It has a slime algea on it that you can't see..that is causing your glue to not stick...
2) When you put glue on the back of the coral press the coral a bit on the glass enough to smush the glue on glass then move it off the glass then push it back onto the glass and then move it off the glass then on and then press firmly..What your doing is stringing the glue so that the glue gets stringy ...this way you don't end up with a big bubble of glue that eventually peels right off like a lump of puddy on oil... Hopefully this'll help ya..
What’s your light schedule and the intensity ? And did you get the triton results?
I run 60% coral lab ab+. Do you mean the ATI results? If so not yet. The end os this week should be done
Ab+ Lps and softies? And how long do you run them for ?
Stunning tank
Been wanting to do this for awhile, maybe I should take that leap now...lol tank looks amazing
You won’t regret it :)
How did you get it to attach to the glass?
I intentionally made my GSP touch a rock base so it would have a way to climb into it. May I have a zooanthid frag in the same rock as the GSP? Are they agressive with each other?
hi... New subbie here. I have just discovered your channel and loving the content. This GSP had worried me tbh but this has made me feel a lot better about putting it into a new tank project. I REALLY wanted to have a backdrop as beautiful as this one but thinking about having to remove it at some point was a concern. .. not any more. Thanks :)
Thanks for subbing! you will be fine for sure with it :)
What par ranges would you recommend
please tell me what are the water per metre and what are the colour you put on your light and also do you change the water every weekly because what happened I have a one in my tank nearly one year it's not spread at all
Please help me any one
Looks amazing! Still have the XR15s on here? I follow you on instagram as well. I am starting my first reef and I am super excited.
I’m going to try and glue a frag to the back tomorrow!!!! 😀👍
Good luck let me know how it goes
I’m sure you’ve said this a thousand times but what light is that?
Love it, been wanting to try it but i can find any that look like your GSP. Would you consider selling a piece of your GSP?
Absolutely. If your here in SoCal
@@eatsleepreef9565 you wont ship unfortunately i wont be able to pick up im in Chicago.
EAT SLEEP Reef I’m around the SoCal area and interest on buying a piece of your beautiful GSP I’m wondering if you’re still up for selling a piece of it ?
I’ve tried sticking gps on the background n it keeps falling off I’ve also stuck it on a small rock n used pity with glue to stick but still came off
Having problem with my gsp it haven't opened up since I got it 4 days ago any suggestions
Your tank is beautiful
Awesome video.
How do you get it stuck to the back
Glue
@@eatsleepreef9565 ive tried glue and it always ends up falling lol
Beautiful tank
Will it go to the side of tank also
Is there any way I could get a frag of your gsp I've looked for ultra green and I can't find it in my area
Wow nice fish tank!
Where do you get gsb
My gsp is closed and not growing 😢
Cool 😎 I am doing the same thing