meteor shower woes....

[gnashty]

siren's eye;589336 wrote: I put them at the top of my rock work for now. They seemed to have darkened a little and have turned slightly more blue (maybe), and the PE is better than before. I did take them off the disk, and that's when they first went downhill. Gee, what a grumpy coral, lol.

I decided to put them at the top because I have a favia that faded at the bottom, and when I moved it up there it darkened dramatically. Maybe the same thing with happen to the MS.

This coral was kept on the sand bed, slightly shaded under 500 watts of T5 (low par though) and it thrived...

Problem is it was removed from its frag disk very shortly after being glued on there to heal..this is the stem of your problem, its still healing.

You will also notice when handling cyphas that you can actually rub the color right off it like slime...looks like that happened around the edges from handling too much, happens to me too. honestly I would have left it alone until it was healed and growing. My MS turns green after fragging or when its unhappy.

If this one doesnt make it just lemme know, I have plenty more

 

[siren's eye]

Thanks you for th replies about the MS. I honestly had no clue removing would cause it that much stress. I always take my corals off their plugs and glue them to little rocks. I do have some good news, at least it's not getting worse It even looks like it's flesh has expanded some.

I guess the next time I get a new species I should research them a little more.

 

[raisedonnintendo]

Huh another funny thing I always do take mine off the old plug to and did.

 

[siren's eye]

Everybody dance for my MS! I got a polyp to eat a tiny peice of krill!

 

[raisedonnintendo]

Woot.

 

[siren's eye]

well, I ended up putting it back in the shade because it started fading Now, I'm going to just leave it there and never touch it again. Hopefully not bothering it will help it.

 

[fish scales2]

How bout somewhere in the middle of blasted light to shade. Move it out of the shade on the sandbed.

 

[gnashty]

Fish Scales2;590639 wrote: How bout somewhere in the middle of blasted light to shade. Move it out of the shade on the sandbed.

+1 and dont touch it or try to feed it right now - let it heal.

 

[siren's eye]

how long should it take?

 

[jaredloo]

Low light is my diagnosis. 35w is not high light. When they say put it in the shade they're talking about a tank with 250 - 400w mh's. I'd bring it out in to the light. brown doesn't mean unhealthy, that means that the pigmented zoanthelae are dying. Pigmented zoanthelae need light. That's your problem, almost 100% sure of it.

 

[jaredloo]

Just pull it out on the sand, don't put it higher, that will shock it because of the change. give it more light gradually.

 

[gnashty]

siren....your mushroom is ready!

 

[siren's eye]

Awesome, for the mushroom!

I put it back is the light due to everyone's new suggestions. It's still kinda by the ledge so I'm hopeing it'll still get the light without direct intensity.