how to get green star polyps to grow on glass?

i just got a frag of green star polyps and have seen some cool things where people grow them on the back wall of their tank and it looks kind of cool and would like to know how it is done?

 

Alot of people place them on the back wall, they grow fast so if you have a rock or something you can use to prop them up against the wall, in a week or 2 they should take hold and then remove the rock and they will start to spread, or you can glue the frag to your back wall, but im not sure if you really want to do this..

 

thanks, i guess ill try the rock method

 

I have some small magnets I used on some xenia to hold it there till it took "root". You need a fairly large, flat frag for that, though.

 

Yea agreed I recently tried gluing ours TWICE! it fell off both times, so I am now propping it up with a rock, in hopes it will spread

 

thanks for the info everyone ;D

 

Be careful what you wish for...

Many who do this end up regretting it later, and it's difficult to remove them once they take hold.

 

A hammer and chisel will get them off, no prob!

 

Yeah, I did this. You can super glue it to coralline on the glass. Glue won't hold directly on glass.

It will eventually reach the bottom of the glass where it will then proceed to grow sneakily through the substrate and silently pop up on the rock work where you can't see it. It will then spread too much for you to do anything about it by the time you notice it in the middle of your rockwork.

I have the problem now actually. Thankfully I'm moving next week. I will be getting rid of all GSP at that time. Never again.

Good luck

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Yikes! your actually scaring me haha, I want it on the glass, I guess I'll have to keep a close Eye on it, it doesnt grow overnight kind of thing though so I'm sure I'll just have to monitor it