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04-17-2007, 07:31 PM
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To boldy reef ...
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Maryville, TN
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GSP - I give up
Ok, I'm just about ready to give up on my GSP and throw them in the garbage. They have not opened up for almost two weeks now. I have no idea what is wrong with them as the rest of the coral in the tank, including all the sps look fine and happy. I have checked my levels, all good ... changed flow patterns, no good ... done the equivelant of a 50 gallon water change (tank is 180) over the past week, no good ... and made sure that nothing was bothering them, snad blowing on them, etc, no good.
I have no idea what is wrong with them, prior they have done great for the last 18 months that I have had them. Nothing in the system has changed that I can find. What is going on with them, why won't they open anymore?
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They have two settings .... stun and kill ... It'd be best not to confuse them!
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04-17-2007, 07:35 PM
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Admin/ Super mod
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: New Castle, Delaware
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hmmmm, anything next to them?
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04-17-2007, 07:37 PM
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I wouldnt sweat it after only two weeks.....especially if they arent rotting away.
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04-17-2007, 07:39 PM
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I'm Kinda Bored
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: north of Dimples
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it's 1 of the 2 I can not get to grow
(the other is xenia)
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04-17-2007, 08:46 PM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Kentucky
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tey are really funny mine are growing like crazy...and sometimes they stay in for a week at a time...make sure you have them in front of ALOT of flow...they love alot of flow and they should come back shortly...
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210 aga, 24 gallon nano(built In) 60 gallon refugium with sump 
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04-17-2007, 09:26 PM
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To boldy reef ...
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Tehy aren't next to anything that should bother them, and they are getting the same flow now that they were when they were opening and looking fine. They don't appear to be rotting, in fact the purple mat is just sitting there not doing much of anything.
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04-17-2007, 09:28 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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If it is white on the outside and purple inside then it is still alive
Nice pic by the way 
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04-17-2007, 09:32 PM
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To boldy reef ...
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If it is white on the outside and purple inside then it is still alive
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If its white where? you mean the edges of the mat indicating that the mat is growing?
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Nice pic by the way
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Thanks, that was Cozumel.
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They have two settings .... stun and kill ... It'd be best not to confuse them!
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04-17-2007, 09:33 PM
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Usually Confused
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Southern California
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Mine looks kind of like a tube, and when the polyps are retracted, the outside is kind of white and the inside is dark purple
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04-18-2007, 11:47 AM
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Tang Lover
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Rockville, MD
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I'd just let it go, and forget that it's even in your tank.
Mine was taking over a neighboring rock. So I ripped it apart, and put the rock upside down (in an attempt to bury and kill the GSP that had grown on it).
2 months later, I flipped the rock back over and moved it somewhere new. There is now a small patch of GSP starting to come BACK on that piece of rock.
They are extremely hearty...
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04-18-2007, 11:51 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Ditto on skeety.
They eventually seem like a weed. So I control them and limit there exposure to sand only so not to overtake things. Then I can easilly prune the mat on the sand! 
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04-18-2007, 11:52 AM
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Rogue Water is Trouble!
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Upstate, NY
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Is it possible you had something on your hand when you put it in your tank recently...mine seem to react when I put my dirty hands in the water...
And I agree on the flow...lots!
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04-18-2007, 11:59 AM
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Why I get nothing done...
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Beaverton
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Ya, as long as they are still purple I'd be patient.
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04-18-2007, 12:09 PM
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Nothing to See Here
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Canada
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mine were like that for a month, and only in the last week they have blown up like crazy!
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04-18-2007, 01:05 PM
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Country Living
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ontario, Canada
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One of the GSP's in our 120g did the similar thing about a month and a half ago. It closed up for a little over 2 weeks. When it decided to open again it actually looked greener than it did before and has been open almost constantly since.
I guess it was so enticing looking after it reopened that the Porcelain Crab took up residence in it instead of on the LTA.
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