Haddoni concerns

[kingpin9995]

I have a 6 inch haddoni carpet new to my 92 gallon bowfront corner tank. Had him about two weeks now. Initially it was beautifully full and looked very healthy. I fed it some small pieces of shrimp after about 5 days. He took it nicely. Gradually it has been deflating and it seems this happens at peak lighting. Nights under moonlights it's full and beautiful. Kinda puzzling. Also feeding lately it grabs on to the food but then after a few minutes lets it go. It's attached nicely in one place on the bottom glass under my sand which is about three inches just under a ledge of live rock. I light my tank with an LED chinese model IT2040 , which has been a great light that Reefbreeders sells at around 80 percent blue power. I find it puzzling that late evenings under the moonlights it looks beautiful. It's mouth is tight for the most part. It seems to have times when the mouth is elongated but tight, and others round and tight. Any ideas of what's going on here. It has not hosted my tomato clown.

 

[kingpin9995]

oops , and 70 percent whites....

 

[kingpin9995]

My parameters are spot on and have some LPS, SPS, and softies with very nice growth. Have a HOB refugium with built in skimmer and grow chaeto. As stated LED lighting. I also dose kalk in my ATO.

 

[RockOn681]

You have the lights turned up to high would be my guess. I have the same light and was bleaching coral at 50% intensity, seeing as the haddoni isn't the biggest light hog I would definitely turn them down to maybe 30% and ramp up slowly over the period of a few weeks or months.

 

[kingpin9995]

The light is about two months old and I started it at around 35 blue 25 white and over the past two months have upped it slowly around 5 percent a week. Sounds like a plan. Reading I thought these carpets are light hogs and thought it would not affect them as much as corals. My corals seem fine and have been doing well. My old light was a 250 halide with 4 ATI t5's, so I assumed the acclimation would not need to be so gradual.

The LED has been great and for the money a very good product SO far.

I'll try the moving back down to around 45 blue and 30 whites and see how that goes.

Thanks.