How to tell whena coral is dead? GSP...

[derek_s]

I was just curious. I would think it would be obvious, but I'm not sure. THe reason I ask is because while doing a waterchange last Fri, I knocked over my GSP frag. It was looking good and was always opened up. I put it back, and it hasn't opened since.

Tonight I tested my water, and my Ammonia had went from a norm of unreadable to a slight spike of about .25 ppm. I wonder where it came from? My tank has been cycled for a while, no problems for 2 months, no new livestock (or deaths) other than a couple very small frags (all of which seem to be alive and ok). It just made me wonder if the GSP is dead/dying? It still is very purple, but has a light coat of algae on some places. I tried to blow it off with the baster, but it's stuck, so I left it.

 

[jefft]

I had a GSP that looked dead for over a month, then one morning it was open and in its full glory. It did that for about a week then went dormant for a couple weeks then it was out again. Just be patient with it.

 

[jaustin]

give it time, as long as the purple matting is still intact it's still alive. The purple matting will disolve turn to a dark color when it's dead.

 

[washowi]

GSP!! You can't kill that stuff..But I want to!! Hate the weed...

 

[skriz]

Todd's right; you can't kill that stuff if you tried. As long as the purple is purple, you're okay.

 

[jefft]

In the near future you will probably be posting: How do you kill this crap! lol:lol2:

 

[derek_s]

I was just worrying that it had died and was decaying, causing my amm to spike. I haven't added any livestock, so I thought that might be it. I did a WC and it is back to normal.

 

[linda lee]

washowi;140263 wrote: Hate the weed...