When to cut a gsp?

exnisstech · Jan 4, 2025

Sparked said:
That looks amazing compared to my bare and empty tank lol. And to be honest there isn’t much to look at in my tank besides one candy cane coral that isn’t doing much lol, a couple diffrent zoas that are slowly growing and spreading, a few orange mushroom looking guys who are pretty cool, then one last coral that I have no clue what it is or if it’s even happy lol. Other than that it’s pretty empty aside from the fishes that are in there. I was planning on getting more corals and expanding my coral selection to look more diverse and add more color and such but i haven’t done that yet because i aquired a 125 gal tank/sump/stand and other various pieces the only thing i need to get to set that tank up is some lights which im saving up for and when i get it up and running a lot of what’s in the 40 gal will go over to that tank and then the 40 gal I will keep up and running just haven’t decided what I want to do with it yet.

It takes time. I'm nine years in.

Sparked · Jan 4, 2025

exnisstech said:
It takes time. I'm nine years in.

Oh definitely takes a lot of time and I’m in no rush for any of my tanks, I haven’t been into saltwater long just about 6 months so I’m pretty happy with the progress this tank has made in that short amount of time. My freshwater tank has been up and running for quite a few years and its still not where I have it pictured in my head but it’s almost there, this hobby is truely a test of patience and a waiting game lol.

Sparked · Jul 6, 2025

So small update on my gsp wall in progress, it’s growing and thriving and seems happy as can be: its been 7 months from the original picture, here it is now.

Maize & Blue · Jul 6, 2025

Sparked said:
So I’m fairly new to saltwater still, only had my little 40 gal AIO up and running for 4 months now(I got it already established and had been up for atleast 6months before I got it) one rock has a gsp on it and I want to cut off some and start growing it on the back wall. I know a lot of people say it’s hard work to keep it in check but I love the color and the way it is and really love a back wall gsp for some reason. The gsp I currently have has grown quite abit. In the picture he’s in the bottom left hand corner. He has over grown his rock in 2 diffrent places and has started growing on the sand bed. One spot is about 2.5 inches grown off and would be a decent size piece, I was just wondering if that is a good size piece to cut off and relocate or if I should wait for it to grow more? The tank has a few different corals (don’t ask me to name them because I’m still learning them all and doing my best to keep them all alive which all but one seem to be growing and happy) and also has 2 clown fish, 1 blue sapphire?, 1 shrimp, a couple small crabs with orange stripped legs and a black looking eel fishy guy who looks like he has a mustache and looks like a grumpy old man with busy eye brows lol and one pencil urchin.Sorry for the horriable descriptions but I am still learning. Would any of them interfere with a gsp back wall?

Midas Blenny is the fish with the eyebrows I’ll bet.