Good idea or bad? Cloves on the overflow box

[hzheng33]

So the idea was to use rainbow cloves on the overflow box in my peninsula. On paper it sounds like a good idea but then reality may not be practical

I was looking at how much the thing has grown but I’m not digging the look. picture pixelated because i'm taking it 5ft away.

Should I scrap it off and just stick some gsp on there?



What it looks like on a frag tile (@mphammer this is your cloves btw)

 

[mphammer]

I love these cloves so I say stick with it, give it some time to see if it will thicken up

 

[Rainblood]

I would stick a patch of gsp on the other side, let both grow and see which you like better and then scrape the other one off.

To me - everything looks weird on the back wall or overflow except gsp. Soft corals don't seem to open up all the way or tend to grow weirdly toward the light so you end up looking at the dull sides instead of the colorful centers. Even encrusting corals don't look as nice as you'd think...the light hits them at a different angle. I tried growing lepto on the back and it had a hard time growing and also didn't glow as much.

 

[bhodges82]

I'll trade you gsp for clove any day. Just let me know

 

[hiimsean]

I let zoas grow all over my overflow. The ones at the bottoms started sticking out farther because they were getting shaded but it looked real cool.

 

[hzheng33]

i have gsp before but it got out of control.

the weir of the overflow was filled with gsp and started looking nasty due accumlation of some algae and some white bubbly stuffs and cyano.