How to take GSP out of ball form?

[Phill2222]

My gsp has grown very odd, and is over lapping it’s self on the back side, any way to take it out of this weird position and flatten it? Thanks!

[patback]

Not sure what you mean by overlapping itself but it grows in a mat.  As long as you have surface area suitable for it, it will grow outwards. May just take some time to bridge any small gaps. 

[Five.five-six]

Just keep it happy and it will spread out so much that one day you will curse it.  

 

True story.  

[AquaVaj]

Probably not without injuring the coral. It encrusts itself to whatever surface is suitable. On a rock it will eventually cover the whole rock and anything in contact with that rock. On like the back wall it'll spread and look like a carpet.

[Clown79]

The coral will encrust and form a shape to the surface.

 

These are living creatures, we can only manipulate them to an extent, otherwise they do what they want

[Oldsalt01]

When this stuff has covered all the flat surface it will send out "arms" that will extend out over what's already there. I had it do the same thing. I just took a razor blade and cut it off where it meets the original mat. I took those pieces and glued them to a new rock: (see "How doth your garden grow" on this forum) and took the original rock to my LFS for store credit. The original was even starting to grow over the sand.