My once-glorious GSP just keeps fading

[ZzyzxRiver]

This is now:


This is six months ago.



The primary change is flow. I moved it a few months ago because I wanted it to grow along the back wall. That places it in a bit of a wind tunnel, a jebao (I can’t remember the model; the second-smallest one) going on random flow from 30-40%:



Literally everything else in my tank has been doing pretty well. But I get less and less polyp extension every weeks and GHA grows right on the mat.

Any advice on how to get it to shine again?

 

[CHSUB]

Are you blowing it with a turkey baster at least weekly? This I believe is very important…

 

[ZzyzxRiver]

I wouldn’t say I’m religious about it but definitely at least once a week. But that doesn’t explain the surfaces that are exposed to good flow also degrading.

I’m wondering if I should do a peroxide dip or something considering the GHA, or if that would do more harm than good right now.

 

[dvgyfresh]

I wouldn’t say I’m religious about it but definitely at least once a week. But that doesn’t explain the surfaces that are exposed to good flow also degrading.

I’m wondering if I should do a peroxide dip or something considering the GHA, or if that would do more harm than good right now.

Check at night for GSP eating nudis, they actually look like GSP - purple with yellow/green tips. Otherwise no idea GSP is pretty hardy even in low flow

 

[ZzyzxRiver]

I observe the tank a lot, it’s definitely not nudibranchs. But when I moved the rock away from the wall to the previous spot it used to inhabit, I noticed quite a bit of white sponge growing in certain crevices. Would that be enough to make the entire colony withdraw? How do you deal with *sponge*?

 

[Jakejtown]

Im experiencing the exact same thing. GsP has been mad for about 3 weeks. Didnt open for a week and since then it opens partially in some areas but not fully and not the whole thing. Everything else in tank is doing well. Funny thing is we are seeing sponges as well in some areas of low flow on under crevices in rock.

 

[dvgyfresh]

I observe the tank a lot, it’s definitely not nudibranchs. But when I moved the rock away from the wall to the previous spot it used to inhabit, I noticed quite a bit of white sponge growing in certain crevices. Would that be enough to make the entire colony withdraw? How do you deal with *sponge*?

Tweezers , just take the sponge off . It could be suffocating it if it has grown enough

 

[ZzyzxRiver]

I forgot that contact with air kills sponges! I’ll just pull the rock out of the tank for a minute. I also reoriented the rock in such a way that the sponge is now in direct light—that might also beat it back.