TankStudy
09/04/2013, 02:01 PM
I have some rastas and they are on the sandbed in my nano. They appear to be mushroom headed or lumpy headed looking and swelling and hugging the base plug. One polyp out of 15 has formed a mace club in the last day. Skinny neck, large head.
I've read other posts and articles stating that a mushroom shaped polyp is a sign of too much light. The strange thing is though, 2 of the polyps which are about 0.5" lower are stretching for light. This is a small 1/2" wide coned like plug only. This makes me confused. Who do I listen too? I feel the ones stretching for the light are crying wolf.
I'm used to seeing zoa's/palys telling me when they need light by stretching up or hugging the creep. This time I'm not too sure whats going on.
I have 17 other zoa's paly on the floor with them. These are the only mushroom headed. There are a few other zoa's or palys indicating they have sufficient lighting or borderline to too much lighting with the base hugging but no swollen heads. They are hugging their creeps or have very short necks. No lumps or swollen mushroom heads, they are nice clean and flat. Only the rastas are displaying the plumpy heads and swollen lumps.
Solution: I am going to try moving them a little towards the outside of the nano to reduce the lighting.
Overall everyone else is happy including a brown hammer, green stylophora, purple tabling acro.
My current nano specs:
Biocube Skimmer
Rapid LED dimmable solderless, Running at 5%~: 4xRB,2xCW,1xUV (Plan on adding 1xRed,1xGreen,1xBlue)
Ecotech vortech MP10
Maintenance is usually a 10% water change once a week. I don't do anything other then that. I manually auto top off even though I have a brand new JBJ auto top off sitting next to it lol.
With my current lighting I feel the colors are a little drab. My rastas are a very dark green looking and most my other colors are dull as well. However, growth is exceptionally high. Based on my LED setup what could I do to spruce it up just a bit without adding too much light.
Any input would be nice.
I've read other posts and articles stating that a mushroom shaped polyp is a sign of too much light. The strange thing is though, 2 of the polyps which are about 0.5" lower are stretching for light. This is a small 1/2" wide coned like plug only. This makes me confused. Who do I listen too? I feel the ones stretching for the light are crying wolf.
I'm used to seeing zoa's/palys telling me when they need light by stretching up or hugging the creep. This time I'm not too sure whats going on.
I have 17 other zoa's paly on the floor with them. These are the only mushroom headed. There are a few other zoa's or palys indicating they have sufficient lighting or borderline to too much lighting with the base hugging but no swollen heads. They are hugging their creeps or have very short necks. No lumps or swollen mushroom heads, they are nice clean and flat. Only the rastas are displaying the plumpy heads and swollen lumps.
Solution: I am going to try moving them a little towards the outside of the nano to reduce the lighting.
Overall everyone else is happy including a brown hammer, green stylophora, purple tabling acro.
My current nano specs:
Biocube Skimmer
Rapid LED dimmable solderless, Running at 5%~: 4xRB,2xCW,1xUV (Plan on adding 1xRed,1xGreen,1xBlue)
Ecotech vortech MP10
Maintenance is usually a 10% water change once a week. I don't do anything other then that. I manually auto top off even though I have a brand new JBJ auto top off sitting next to it lol.
With my current lighting I feel the colors are a little drab. My rastas are a very dark green looking and most my other colors are dull as well. However, growth is exceptionally high. Based on my LED setup what could I do to spruce it up just a bit without adding too much light.
Any input would be nice.