blastomussa

[cyclops23]

i just got a blastomussa acclimated to my tank, but was wondering on acclimating to my lights. its a 55g with 6 54watt T-5, gives me 5.9 watts/gal. they dont have individual reflectors, just 1 behind them all. i kept the lights off for 4 hours and i just turned on my actinics. i got the blasto completely shaded. is this ok? everything i read says that they like moderate light and water movement, except what i read here, where everyone says low light and movement. are my lights too strong for it? the only place near the sandbed that gets partial shade where i can put it is about 6" away from my physogyra. seems like it would be too close for me

 

[impur]

If its shaded you will be fine. I have 2 different blastos in my tank on the sand under 250w MH and they are not shaded. Both are doing really well, but i had to acclimate them to the higher light.

 

[cyclops23]

does it always need to be shaded? or will it be ok under full light? thanks!

 

[ClownNut]

i have my under 250W and now under T5. they will do fine almost any place in ur tank. just dont put them directly under the MH. T5 i keep my upper-middle level of the tank.

 

[Cellenzweig]

If its shaded you will be fine. I have 2 different blastos in my tank on the sand under 250w MH and they are not shaded.

I have a few different blastos under 250MH, near the sandbed. They seem to do pretty well there.

 

[cyclops23]

thanks guys! i set the rocks so there's a perfect spot for it

 

[impur]

How bout a pic??

 

[cyclops23]

im working on it. dont have much time lately, we're adopting another doberman, going to look at her tonight, but ill try and get a good pic later on. its a really small frag, but the colors look like it will be pretty sweet when if gets bigger. i got it with a neon green nephthea, which is unbelieveable. when i had the lights off for them to adjust, the nephthea was glowing. i kid you not, you could see it plain as day. ill post pics of both, they're the best purchases ive made yet, by far

 

[cyclops23]

not the greatest pics, but they'll work.
here they are:

nephthea

 

[impur]

Wow that is green!!! Nice.

The blastos do look a little upset, leave them for awhile, they should come around. It wouldn't hurt to try feeding them some mysis or brine. I haven't seen that morph before, nice find.

 

[cyclops23]

i moved them around more than i should have yesterday, they have reason to hate me. i'll try feeding them, but thats where my peppermints like to hang out, and they were picking on it yesterday. i dont want to freak it out more. isn't that nephthea stellar?!! that blew my mind when i took it out of the box.