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Sk8r
03/19/2006, 01:16 PM
This untidy and unhappy heap is supposed to be pale green: they're growing in a shell: it doesn't expand happily and its edges are minuscule. I'm having a hard time figuring out its needs in a MH/actinic tank. Up? Down? High flow? Light? Shade? I have moved it hither and yon trying to get it content somewhere, and it doesn't look pleased. Advice would be appreciated.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f269/Sk8r10/tank2036.jpg

Avi
03/19/2006, 01:58 PM
I have that very same, or at very least, similar Paly. I bought it when it was lilly white....that comes from bleaching out its color because it hadn't had sufficient light. Put it in moderate to high light and it will get its pale green color back. It'll take a little while, but it will come back, and the polyps will flatten out when they open.

Here, you can see what mine looked like pretty much soon after I got them.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Avrumeleh/ReefMHLR411051503.jpg

Here they are in this photo, after I had them in a higher spot under my MHs:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Avrumeleh/Reef420005LR1609.jpg

And, you can see them toward the upper right hand corner of the photo now that they've gotten most of their green color back:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Avrumeleh/GreenPaly31906LR1112.jpg

After they got their coloration, I put them in a less bright spot and they maintained their color.

Azurel
03/19/2006, 06:18 PM
I would put it in some moderate light and a little heavier flow, all the zoanthids and palys and protopalys are in moderate to high flow. Once you do that maybe try to feed them some bit of mysis and cyclop-eeze.

Sk8r
03/19/2006, 07:34 PM
Thank you both! I have a feeling this can be a pretty specimen if I can just get it settled.

ecotoxlady
03/19/2006, 11:13 PM
Sorry to sidetrack from the topic of conversation but I just had to say, gorgeous zoos Avi! Out of curiousity, what is the coral next to your blue alien eye zoas?

Sk8r
03/20/2006, 02:35 AM
Yes! I should say to both of you---gorgeous! I should hope my little shellful turns out anything like those...

Avi
03/20/2006, 08:37 AM
I guess you mean the ones on the left of the Alien-eyes....That's a Pagoda (Turbinaria peltata.) I have three of them in my reef and you can see two of them:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Avrumeleh/Pagodas32006LR1128.jpg

This is the third....it isn't fully open yet becuase the light had just gone on. The ones to the upper left of it are Blastomussa wellsi:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v58/Avrumeleh/Pagoda32006LR1131.jpg

They're very hardy coral that, in my reef under MHs, like moderate light and moderate waterflow.