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03/01/2010, 07:10 PM
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Attatching star polyps to back glass?
Got an idea!(few and far between).So get this, I have a large mat of green star polyps and am going to try to attach them on the middle of my back glass. Now I know I can lay them against the back glass and they will slowly encrust the back glass, but my idea is when I do a 20 gallon water change it leaves about 8" of exposed glass.I'm thinking I can dry the glass at this time and pat the star polyp mat dry and use super glue gel to attatch them. What do y'all think?
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03/01/2010, 11:43 PM
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I attached my GSP to small ceramic tiles and then just superglued the entire tile to my overflow. They will grow off the tile and onto the glass and can not even see the tiles anymore.
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03/02/2010, 12:43 AM
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The glue will "skin" over as soon as the salt water hits it. It will be strong enough to hold the polyps in just 3 or 4 minutes. It will still be soft for about 20 minutes so keep high flow off the polyps or you risk washing them right off the glass. |
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03/02/2010, 10:07 AM
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Attaching GSP to glass
I can tell you first hand that it does work. Just apply the glue over several spots of the back of the mat, quickly place it on the glass and hold it there for a few minutes. I've gotten both regular green star polyps and the metallic green star to stick. It also makes fragging it very easy. A razor blade and you're done. One more nice thing is since you can remove it in strips, it's flat and people love to use it to hide pipes and such in their tanks.
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03/03/2010, 09:38 AM
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What about when you do water changes? Would regular exposure to the air be a BIG problem for them, or more of a minor nuisance? Or, does the GSP get exposed to tidal action in nature?
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03/05/2010, 09:27 AM
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The only thing I've noticed with exposure to air is that polyps might stay closed for a little while. But, other than that, there doesn't appear to be any detrimental effects to the polyps. I've been growing them on the glass for only about two years, so I can't confirm long term results, but so far so good.
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03/05/2010, 01:04 PM
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Can any of you post pictures; I was thinking about doing this.
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03/06/2010, 12:37 PM
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Anyone ever try attaching GSP to loc-line?
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03/06/2010, 06:37 PM
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i think it will work on any thing..imo....i guled a piece to my overflow...and now its almost completely covered...
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03/07/2010, 05:26 PM
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Pic anyone?
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03/07/2010, 07:28 PM
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My lights are off for the night, but I'll try and post a picture tomorrow.
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03/11/2010, 02:58 PM
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i have my gsp covering half of the back of my tank. i just had some gsp lean against the back of my tank. In time they will just spread like wild fire
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03/11/2010, 08:17 PM
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I'm getting some in the next month or two....this is a really interesting idea! Can't wait to see the pics
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03/12/2010, 01:33 PM
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PICS!!!!! please
thinking of doing it, too
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03/12/2010, 08:16 PM
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I would also love to see some pics
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03/16/2010, 03:08 PM
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Here's an old pic when I kept GSP in my 75 - growing all over the back of the glass:
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03/17/2010, 01:44 PM
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Holy GSP! That is serious back growth.
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03/17/2010, 05:24 PM
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It ended up getting bigger than that - to the point where the mat starting peeling off the glass and flopping over on itself. Then I just removed it all and sold the pieces.
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06/02/2015, 10:58 PM
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Great idea I'm going to do this to my overflow box and pre skimmer box. They are so ugly to look at and the polyps would be much much better to see
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06/04/2015, 06:59 PM
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I like this idea! But I would be concerned about it growing into the overflow openings and blocking them. I am thinking maybe glue the tile to a magnetand use that to make something like a vertical frag rack so if I want to move the GSP I can.
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06/04/2015, 08:59 PM
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No worries on it growing where you don't want it (like the overflow teeth), just trim it before it gets there.
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06/08/2015, 10:48 AM
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I did this with my pulsing xenia and also have some yellow colony polyps that have started moving up the glass as well.
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06/13/2015, 09:45 PM
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I was thinking of doing this with some clove polyps. I saw some with bright yellow and red centers. I think it would look awesome!
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06/19/2015, 09:17 PM
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Luckily on the glass it's really easy to trim! Many people put it there to help isolate it from what they don't want covered in GSP.
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07/13/2015, 11:23 AM
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super glue gel
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