What exactly is this?? Pic!

fast57 · 11/29/2006, 10:03 PM

What exactly is this?? I've been told that it is called"sea mat". Is that right? Whats the correct name for it.

jgonzz · 11/29/2006, 10:04 PM

green star polyps

skippy2 · 11/29/2006, 10:07 PM

Yup, green star polyps. You should really isolate it as it spreads like crazy and can sting other corals.

Liquid Hobby · 11/29/2006, 10:25 PM

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Originally posted by skippy2
Yup, green star polyps. You should really isolate it as it spreads like crazy and can sting other corals.

Does it spread any worse than the mushroom below and to the right?

edwing206 · 11/29/2006, 10:27 PM

probably just as bad

29GallonReefer · 11/29/2006, 10:29 PM

they spread fast. but a tank full of them looks sweet.

drummereef · 11/30/2006, 01:07 AM

Better than looking at a tank of bare rock, isnt' it!

aquarius77 · 11/30/2006, 01:56 AM

GSP can sting?

I got a candy cane and laid it right in a mat of GSP. I got the candy cane coral from someone without the proper setup to keep it and it was dying, i was not expecting this coral and dont really have room for it so i figured what can it hurt to lay it on them. It is comming back nicely so far but now im wondering about it being on them.

ACBlinky · 11/30/2006, 02:28 AM

It can, but often it competes by simply overgrowing its neighbors and smothering them.

fast57 -- Usually when someone refers to 'sea mat' they're talking about zoanthids, palythoa or protopalythoa -- in Eric Borneman's book Aquarium Corals he mentions this common name for all three types of polyps, and I've seen them all labeled as 'sea mat' at the LFS as well.

fast57 · 11/30/2006, 07:24 PM

how come i was told that these are "green star polyps"????(the ones on the bottom left) Then what are these? You can tell there a totally different animal. I'm so confused

Salamander · 11/30/2006, 07:35 PM

It all looks the same to me. GSP all the way.

fast57 · 11/30/2006, 07:42 PM

i wish you could see them in person ...side by side they look totaly different. Why could that be?

fast57 · 11/30/2006, 07:43 PM

oh and what are the brown things just above them called??

JRaquatics · 11/30/2006, 07:45 PM

They are both Green star polyps. I have both in my tank the top GSP with the long skirt and pink base do grow agressively and looks awsome in the current. Mine actually like higher flow areas. Now the bottom one is IME is much slower growing, not as invassive and doesn't like strong current. The both are nice but you must keep them in control if you want a variety of different corals.

3D-Reef · 11/30/2006, 07:54 PM

They are both star polyps.The first one is Pachavularia violacea.The second one is P.clavularia.

spanglish · 11/30/2006, 08:12 PM

It's kinda like "ferns" many different looks, still all
ferns.

Here are mine

RichConley · 11/30/2006, 08:14 PM

Theyre not both GSP. One is GSP, the other is a type of encrusting gorgonian. I can't remember which is which though :-P

Functionally, theyre pretty much the same.

Konadog · 11/30/2006, 09:06 PM

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Originally posted by Liquid Hobby
Does it spread any worse than the mushroom below and to the right?

Yes they can!

Green striped mushrooms are a plague waiting to happen also!

paulhines · 11/30/2006, 09:10 PM

Wow, looks like you need to mow that! Could I use it for a lawn?

reefinmike · 11/30/2006, 09:30 PM

thanks... ive been looking for the gsp garden pic forever.

Liquid Hobby · 12/01/2006, 12:46 AM

Well, I'm really glad my little frag is isolated on a small rock in the middle of the sand!!!

ACBlinky · 12/01/2006, 01:15 AM

Good Lord, that's amazing! I have both neon green and pink star polyps starting to take off in my tank... now I'm a little worried.

boomsticks · 12/01/2006, 02:55 PM

They don't sting they don't have nemocyst cells. Their only defense is to retract....holy crap! That looks like a lawn! I have...jeez...wow.

Pico Keeper · 12/01/2006, 04:49 PM

The other ones are often called Daisy Star Polyps. They are very closely related to GSP, and last I checked they were definately not a gorgonian of any type.

Radicaljbr · 12/01/2006, 06:31 PM

Is there anyway to control GSPs?

I also just put some in my tank and did not know they could cover the whole tank.

11/29/2006, 10:03 PM	#1
fast57 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: southside of chicago Posts: 667	What exactly is this?? Pic! What exactly is this?? I've been told that it is called"sea mat". Is that right? Whats the correct name for it.

11/29/2006, 10:07 PM	#3
skippy2 Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: S.W. Michigan Posts: 3,205	Yup, green star polyps. You should really isolate it as it spreads like crazy and can sting other corals. __________________ Peggy Current Tank Info: no tank

11/29/2006, 10:27 PM	#5
edwing206 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Shoreline,Washington Posts: 4,518	probably just as bad __________________ The name's Luis. :) Current Tank Info: 50G cube

11/29/2006, 10:29 PM	#6
29GallonReefer Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: New Orleans, LA Posts: 192	they spread fast. but a tank full of them looks sweet. __________________ 29 Gallon (4) 55W PC's Softie Fanatic FROGfish

11/30/2006, 01:07 AM	#7
drummereef Team RC Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: STL Posts: 14,754	Better than looking at a tank of bare rock, isnt' it! __________________ -Brett 180g Marineland Starfire In-Wall 278 gallon system

11/29/2006, 10:04 PM	#2
jgonzz Moved On Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Eaton Posts: 646	green star polyps

11/30/2006, 01:56 AM	#8
aquarius77 Moved On Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Highland, Il Posts: 2,198	GSP can sting? I got a candy cane and laid it right in a mat of GSP. I got the candy cane coral from someone without the proper setup to keep it and it was dying, i was not expecting this coral and dont really have room for it so i figured what can it hurt to lay it on them. It is comming back nicely so far but now im wondering about it being on them.

11/30/2006, 02:28 AM	#9
ACBlinky Premium Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada Posts: 4,954 Blog Entries: 20	It can, but often it competes by simply overgrowing its neighbors and smothering them. fast57 -- Usually when someone refers to 'sea mat' they're talking about zoanthids, palythoa or protopalythoa -- in Eric Borneman's book Aquarium Corals he mentions this common name for all three types of polyps, and I've seen them all labeled as 'sea mat' at the LFS as well. __________________ "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen Current Tank Info: 150g mixed reef, 30g sump/refugium, LED lighting, 100lbs LR, coral beauty, flame angel, blue & yellow tangs, gobies, damsels, 6-line wrasse, lawnmower blenny, dottyback, clown pair, rabbitfish, shrimp, crabs, CUC.

11/30/2006, 07:24 PM	#10
fast57 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: southside of chicago Posts: 667	how come i was told that these are "green star polyps"????(the ones on the bottom left) Then what are these? You can tell there a totally different animal. I'm so confused

11/30/2006, 07:35 PM	#11
Salamander Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Flagstaff, Arizona Posts: 2,103	It all looks the same to me. GSP all the way. __________________ I feel more like myself now than I did before. Current Tank Info: 120g mixed reef, 2 x 250W DE MH, 2 x 54w T5, MSX 200 SKimmer, 2 Koralia 4's, 40g fuge/sump, QT

11/30/2006, 07:42 PM	#12
fast57 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: southside of chicago Posts: 667	i wish you could see them in person ...side by side they look totaly different. Why could that be?

11/30/2006, 07:43 PM	#13
fast57 Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: southside of chicago Posts: 667	oh and what are the brown things just above them called??

11/30/2006, 07:45 PM	#14
JRaquatics Awaiting Email Confirmation Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: On RC Posts: 3,609	They are both Green star polyps. I have both in my tank the top GSP with the long skirt and pink base do grow agressively and looks awsome in the current. Mine actually like higher flow areas. Now the bottom one is IME is much slower growing, not as invassive and doesn't like strong current. The both are nice but you must keep them in control if you want a variety of different corals.

11/30/2006, 07:54 PM	#15
3D-Reef Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Wichita,Ks Posts: 602	They are both star polyps.The first one is Pachavularia violacea.The second one is P.clavularia. __________________ Seagrass,Mother nature's way of organic carbon dosing. "Nitrification is controlled primarily by 02 and nitrogen as ammonium supply, while denitrification is controlled by nitrate and organic carbon supply" Seagrasses 2006 Life on earth depends on plants-without plants,no life.Alf Jacob Nilsen Current Tank Info: 125 DT,135 grass fuge/sump;75g seagrass/seahorse tank 70 fuge/sump

11/30/2006, 08:12 PM	#16
spanglish Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: DFW Texas Posts: 788	It's kinda like "ferns" many different looks, still all ferns. Here are mine __________________ " I quit drinking weeks ago! No one noticed, but I guess that's a pretty good indicator that I conducted myself quite well when I was drunk. " Current Tank Info: 90 G Bowfront, 30G refugium,T5's,Euroreef 100,1 true perc, 1false black, 1 ember blenny,Eight Line Flasher Wrasse, Mandarin,various LPS

11/30/2006, 08:14 PM	#17
RichConley Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bostonian in Chicago going to DC Posts: 9,908	Theyre not both GSP. One is GSP, the other is a type of encrusting gorgonian. I can't remember which is which though :-P Functionally, theyre pretty much the same. __________________ NO TANKS!!!

11/30/2006, 09:10 PM	#19
paulhines Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lakeland, FL Posts: 331	Wow, looks like you need to mow that! Could I use it for a lawn? __________________ God makes this look easy... Current Tank Info: 150g high and 65g reefs. Euroreefs, Tunzes, 2 x 250w HQI 14K Phoenix and 4 x 54w T5

11/30/2006, 09:30 PM	#20
reefinmike Registered Member Join Date: May 2006 Location: ohio Posts: 846	thanks... ive been looking for the gsp garden pic forever. __________________ 90g reef lit by 2 kessil 360's and 4 T5's. 55g sump/fuge, eshopps s-200 skimmer and slowly working on getting every apex gadget

12/01/2006, 12:46 AM	#21
Liquid Hobby Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 810	Well, I'm really glad my little frag is isolated on a small rock in the middle of the sand!!! __________________ 120 DT/200 G mixed reef: birthed on Dec 1, 2010 * Neptune Systems controller * 40G Sump + 40G Fuge which gravity feeds into DT * Huge Reef Octopus Skimmer * Calc, GFO and Carbon RXs * 2x250W 20K Radium MH with VHO supplement * 3600 GPH closed loop with OM 4 way * 1700 GPH return

12/01/2006, 01:15 AM	#22
ACBlinky Premium Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Peterborough, ON, Canada Posts: 4,954 Blog Entries: 20	Good Lord, that's amazing! I have both neon green and pink star polyps starting to take off in my tank... now I'm a little worried. __________________ "The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea." - Isak Dinesen Current Tank Info: 150g mixed reef, 30g sump/refugium, LED lighting, 100lbs LR, coral beauty, flame angel, blue & yellow tangs, gobies, damsels, 6-line wrasse, lawnmower blenny, dottyback, clown pair, rabbitfish, shrimp, crabs, CUC.

12/01/2006, 02:55 PM	#23
boomsticks Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Good ol NH Posts: 547	They don't sting they don't have nemocyst cells. Their only defense is to retract....holy crap! That looks like a lawn! I have...jeez...wow. __________________ Don't take life too seriously, nobody gets out alive anyway. Current Tank Info: 55 gal reef, 24 cube

12/01/2006, 04:49 PM	#24
Pico Keeper Premium Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 437	The other ones are often called Daisy Star Polyps. They are very closely related to GSP, and last I checked they were definately not a gorgonian of any type.

12/01/2006, 06:31 PM	#25
Radicaljbr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Hudson, Ohio Posts: 1,293	Is there anyway to control GSPs? I also just put some in my tank and did not know they could cover the whole tank.