Hey Brenda
Ok about a month ago I bought a Magnifica, knowing about it's high light and flow needs. I placed it directly under my 150w mh, an right in front of a flow pump(covered). The mh is 6400K (don't know if this could be the problem). After I had the nennie for a week, the colors were great, but then we had to go away for a week. I left someone in charge of the tank, but I think he forgot to turn my mh on for the week. When I came back the nennie was severely bleached. The nennie remained in somewhat the same spot(directly under the halide, at the most top point of my tank). I was very crossed about this, knowing the bleached nennie rate I came to MASA and searched the forums as much as I could. The nennies foot and tentacles are still very sticky (sticking to my fingers even when I'm feeding), the nennie is stuck to the rock like concrete, still very strong. I started feeding it pieces of muscle, the strange thing is it ate faster then when I first introduced him. I would search the entire tank to make sure there is no parts of muscle that he spat out. I started feeding it bigger pieces(it's a big nennie, +-30cm length,moth almost 5cm) until I started feeding complete muscles, everyday, twice but I still can't find any remains any part of the day(The flow in the tank works that all detritus will be blown to one spot). It's tentacles remain very sticky and it's opening amazingly, also the mouth is semi open during the day (Read that in magnificas this is preferred), I also enriched the food with iodide and reef trace elements. Now my question, I'm taking pics every week to make sure the nennie is recovering, but it seems that the nennie is still getting whiter. Could this be from the lights, sometimes my tank hit temps of 28 degrees C, could this be the problem?
water quality:
ph 8.5
Salinity 1.024
Nitrate,nitrite,phosphate all 0
the tank has been running for more then a year now. I really don't want to loose this beautiful animal.
here are some pics
before the vacation:
When we came back:
2 weeks after daily feedings and light cycles, maybe I'm just paranoid, but another opinion would greatly be appreciated. The nennie seems whiter...
Also another question, at night the nennie has a redish foot like shown in the pics, but during the day the foot is a greenish to brown, is this because of my yellow lights?
Also is it possible that the nennie could have bleached so quickly in a week with just 2 t5 54watt actinic and coral blue?
Thanks for the help, and please I will appreciate any advice.
Ok about a month ago I bought a Magnifica, knowing about it's high light and flow needs. I placed it directly under my 150w mh, an right in front of a flow pump(covered). The mh is 6400K (don't know if this could be the problem). After I had the nennie for a week, the colors were great, but then we had to go away for a week. I left someone in charge of the tank, but I think he forgot to turn my mh on for the week. When I came back the nennie was severely bleached. The nennie remained in somewhat the same spot(directly under the halide, at the most top point of my tank). I was very crossed about this, knowing the bleached nennie rate I came to MASA and searched the forums as much as I could. The nennies foot and tentacles are still very sticky (sticking to my fingers even when I'm feeding), the nennie is stuck to the rock like concrete, still very strong. I started feeding it pieces of muscle, the strange thing is it ate faster then when I first introduced him. I would search the entire tank to make sure there is no parts of muscle that he spat out. I started feeding it bigger pieces(it's a big nennie, +-30cm length,moth almost 5cm) until I started feeding complete muscles, everyday, twice but I still can't find any remains any part of the day(The flow in the tank works that all detritus will be blown to one spot). It's tentacles remain very sticky and it's opening amazingly, also the mouth is semi open during the day (Read that in magnificas this is preferred), I also enriched the food with iodide and reef trace elements. Now my question, I'm taking pics every week to make sure the nennie is recovering, but it seems that the nennie is still getting whiter. Could this be from the lights, sometimes my tank hit temps of 28 degrees C, could this be the problem?
water quality:
ph 8.5
Salinity 1.024
Nitrate,nitrite,phosphate all 0
the tank has been running for more then a year now. I really don't want to loose this beautiful animal.
here are some pics
before the vacation:
When we came back:
2 weeks after daily feedings and light cycles, maybe I'm just paranoid, but another opinion would greatly be appreciated. The nennie seems whiter...
Also another question, at night the nennie has a redish foot like shown in the pics, but during the day the foot is a greenish to brown, is this because of my yellow lights?
Also is it possible that the nennie could have bleached so quickly in a week with just 2 t5 54watt actinic and coral blue?
Thanks for the help, and please I will appreciate any advice.
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