Green Star Polyp
- Thread starter Cibo
- Start date
- Location
- Huntington
if your green stars aren't opening you might have bigger problems with your water quality. I have never seen star polyps stay closed for more than a couple hours in the store tanks (and they have low light and flow in some of them). The only thing left after a nuclear holocaust would be cockroaches and GSP. check all your parameters and make sure they are where they should be.
- Location
- Flushing NY 11355
Cibo,
Did your friend cut it out and you pick up the frag right the way? If so, it will take long time to open up-they are very sensitive.
YES, they are very hardy, so even if they don't open up, they don't usually die.
I recently cut up many frags, the main colony open up in about 3 days back to it's full glory; the frags open in a week but the medium sized new colony has just recently starting to open up after 10 days. It depends on how rough in the process of divisioning it.
If you do see cyano trying to over take it. Blow them off gently like me touching a girl(may be you would like to go for the rough route-I mean to a girl J/K J/K):afro: - don't. It only irritate the coral more and it will stay close longer.
At least, try to clean it so that the "pimples", where the polyps come out from, will show. Once they are out, you can start to rougher to the body of the coral.
Hope this help you.
Did your friend cut it out and you pick up the frag right the way? If so, it will take long time to open up-they are very sensitive.
YES, they are very hardy, so even if they don't open up, they don't usually die.
I recently cut up many frags, the main colony open up in about 3 days back to it's full glory; the frags open in a week but the medium sized new colony has just recently starting to open up after 10 days. It depends on how rough in the process of divisioning it.
If you do see cyano trying to over take it. Blow them off gently like me touching a girl(may be you would like to go for the rough route-I mean to a girl J/K J/K):afro: - don't. It only irritate the coral more and it will stay close longer.
At least, try to clean it so that the "pimples", where the polyps come out from, will show. Once they are out, you can start to rougher to the body of the coral.
Hope this help you.
- Location
- East Patchogue - Suffolk, NY
I have two kinds, one is doing well, while other fell off its place and hasn't been fully opening.
Give it atleast a week, if it does not open you may need to move it somewhere in your tank for better light and/or water flow.
Give it atleast a week, if it does not open you may need to move it somewhere in your tank for better light and/or water flow.
Don't stress just yet. Honestly if all your parameters are good, give it time. Our GSPs got knocked off the rock they were on, flipped over in the sand for about three days... before I noticed 
... and within a day or two they opened right up. Then Craig scraped them off the frag disc and glued them down to a rock of their very own, by the next day they opened.
Some corals might be a bit more pissed off than others and take a bit more time to open up than others. As for GSPs ours and in general, they seem to be able to take quiet the licking and keep on going.
BTW you may want to simply respond to your original thread on the subject rather than create more threads of the same caliber. Good luck with your GSPs.
... and within a day or two they opened right up. Then Craig scraped them off the frag disc and glued them down to a rock of their very own, by the next day they opened. Some corals might be a bit more pissed off than others and take a bit more time to open up than others. As for GSPs ours and in general, they seem to be able to take quiet the licking and keep on going.
BTW you may want to simply respond to your original thread on the subject rather than create more threads of the same caliber.
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