Green Star Polyps, propagation question

[phloater]

et al,

I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and started
growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is folded over
on itself. Are these things durable like leather corals that you can
just cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be coaxed? I
started this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in hundreds. I
have trimmed my cabbage leather coral and am wondering if this works the
same.


Thanks!

Dave

[kim gross]

Green Star Polyps (GSP) are pretty hardy and you can just cut them up
and glue them down where you want them.

Kim
jensalt.com

phloater wrote:
> et al,
>
> I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and started
> growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is folded over
> on itself. Are these things durable like leather corals that you can
> just cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be coaxed? I
> started this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in hundreds. I
> have trimmed my cabbage leather coral and am wondering if this works the
> same.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>

[Todd Nicholson]

Mine I simply cut with a sharp razor blade between the polyps, then glued
them onto rock using Cyanoacrylate (C/A).

-Todd

"phloater" > wrote in message
...
> et al,
>
> I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and started
> growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is folded over on
> itself. Are these things durable like leather corals that you can just
> cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be coaxed? I started
> this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in hundreds. I have trimmed
> my cabbage leather coral and am wondering if this works the same.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>

[RicSeyler]

Yep just cut 'em up. And glue 'em down or shove 'em in a hole.
It's dang near impossible to kill the things :-)

phloater wrote:

> et al,
>
> I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and
> started growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is
> folded over on itself. Are these things durable like leather corals
> that you can just cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be
> coaxed? I started this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in
> hundreds. I have trimmed my cabbage leather coral and am wondering if
> this works the same.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>

--
Ric Seyler

[Steve]

phloater wrote:
> et al,
>
> I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and started
> growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is folded over
> on itself. Are these things durable like leather corals that you can
> just cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be coaxed? I
> started this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in hundreds. I
> have trimmed my cabbage leather coral and am wondering if this works the
> same.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
Hey,

Still new to the hobby and just want to make sure these are the ones
being talked about:

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=90101&papass=&sort=1&thecat=998

I have seen many different things called the same thing, so a picture
explains it all. I have a small patch of these that I would like to
spread elsewhere. Is there any way to help them spread/grow faster once
they are in their 'new' location? When cutting, do you snip it like a
rose, or 'scrape the base' to get as much of the 'root' as possible?
This sounds interesting!

S.

--


--> GNU/Linux is user friendly... it's just picky about its friends.

[RicSeyler]

Also take note, once these things get going, they will ooze over
everything. :-)
You can end up with a tank FULL of green stars. If you look at many
established
tanks, people generally have them on a rock by themselves in the sand bed.
They can be like weeds and overgrow other corals.

But they are a very pretty addition to a reef tank!!

RicSeyler wrote:

> Yep just cut 'em up. And glue 'em down or shove 'em in a hole.
> It's dang near impossible to kill the things :-)
>
> phloater wrote:
>
>> et al,
>>
>> I have a green star polyp colony that is growing like crazy and
>> started growing up the glass. Some crabs dislodged part and it is
>> folded over on itself. Are these things durable like leather corals
>> that you can just cut with a blade and its ok? Or do they have to be
>> coaxed? I started this colony as only 4 polyps and now numbers in
>> hundreds. I have trimmed my cabbage leather coral and am wondering
>> if this works the same.
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Dave
>>
>

--
Ric Seyler