So the key to GSP is to leave it on an "island" type rock? I love the coloration and texture of it too and thats why I was asking.

I'm starting to second guess on the carpet of GSP I now have. It's grown a lot and is getting a little out of hand on me. But it seems easy enough to peel off if need be, I just haven't had the heart to slice and dice it yet.

Hmmmm, let me see:

1.) Brought home a large clam from the LFS (I won't say the name, but I don't deal with them anymore), it lasted a few weeks... Problem was the LFS ripped off its foot (I didn't know better, and should of checked it before leaving the store), it just didn't do well after, $80 bucks gone

2.) Mystery Wrasse - bullied from the get go, didn't last the night, $125 down the drain

3.) Have had several coral RTN when brought home, some didn't last the night, some turned into frags. I can't even guess how much $$$$ waisted there

4.) Have had several fish die overnight or shortly after coming home with them from LFS... don't buy from that store anymore. Basically the store would sell them next day, didn't acclimate properly, didn't make sure they ate... This made me a better buyer... I now only from 3 places, and also make sure of health, that it eats and so on.

I think we all have alot of the same stories, hopefully we all get smarter as we move forward.

bengaii cardinal... lasted 3 days before it died and became hermit crab food and in that time didnt move more than 6 inches from the spot i let it out of the bag... ate well and everything just the most uninteresting thing i've ever put in there, my LR when it was cycling was more interesting...

Pink Hawaiian Cucumber. And a Sea Hare. Both dead within the week. Altho, my Anenome ate the hare...

Two weeks ago I purchased a couple detritus eating slugs for $16 apiece. They were doing an awesome job. Acclimated them and dropped them in. Immediately the started cleaning my sand, like two little vaccuum cleaners. Left them be for about 10 minutes and came back so see one of them started cleaning right over to my superman acans... where it was half eaten.

About an hour later my open brain was devouring the second one... Most expensive snacks I've ever given my tank.

hmm hard one, I have never had anything alive I have regretted purchasing, couple corals I was disapointed in, but I guess the only things I have realy regretted buying were 230Lbs of sand and an ebo heater..

sand cause nusence problems after 1 year so I had to put everything into a temp tank that I had a ebo heater in which stuck on over night and wipped out all my live stock corals and all. I ended up with 3 5 gal buckets of white hard corals.

Steve

Which corals were you, and other posters here that are reading, most disappointed in?

I would have to say a pink tube anemone....beautiful...but when I put it in the tank....It quickly cleaned up 3 fish in aobut 2 days....regal tang......4 line wrasse.......and a mandarin......I still have the tube anemone but it now lives in its own tank....the tank is called death tank.....he has 3 crabs in there with him.....

Oh...I have Kenya tree everywhere from one little frag I put in my tank....I clean it out and flush the stuff every year...its brutal....it takes over everything....but when you first start out...you want to grow anything you can get your hands on.....dumb!!

tuff question, um for me is was a few SPS that looked promising but never colored up like I thought they would, so not a bad coral just not the results I was gambling on, a fox coral, never did well, oh and mushrooms, when you mix mushrooms and MH lighting they explode and try to take over the tank.

Steve