Haddoni questions

[kingpin9995]

I have about a 6 inch haddoni in my 92 gallon corner bowfront. I was having issues with it deflating during peak light hours under my led. I have a reefbreeder IT 2040 programmable. It's chinese but it has been a great light. After lights out it seems that is the time it expands. I was told to take the intensity down some and that it may be getting stressed by it's new light. I've had this guy for about 3 weeks. When inflated it looks great and the mouth is pretty tight. It was attached to the bottom glass but lately it seems to move it's foot up more to a rock on the sand bed. One other thing is that it is not sticky. I touched it with a turkey baster while feeding other corals and no stick at all even though it looks great. I took my lights down to 45 percent blue and 30 white at peak which lasts around 6 hours. Not eating either.. Parmameters are all in good range for a 2 year old system. I dose kalk in my ato and have a HOB refugium with chaeto. I have had a minor cyano outbreak on parts of my sand bed but otherwise everything is doing great.. Any ideas... Do I need to ramp the leds down even more? Or is this guy sick.... and need to be treated?

 

[Daniel62]

1st a picture always helps. Are you positive is a haddoni? I run Maxspect Razors on my haddoni tank, and all 5 of them like it bright. And Haddoni are Always Sticky if they are healthy. So if I had to Guess, I would say sick and needs to be treated. Better safe than sorry. And Pics alway help LOL

 

[kingpin9995]

Here is a pic. Is this an haddoni.. Bought it from Dr FS.. Live aquaria

 

[kingpin9995]

It's mouth is tight. It moved from attached under sand bed the other day to the underside of live rock... It has no sticky at all. When I got it was very sticky and fed it a couple of small shrimp pieces after 4 days after it settled in. It was probably a third bigger then. It was actually huge when I put it in and after a few hours.

 

[kingpin9995]

So does this look like a haddoni? It seems to be more fluffy and fuller than the stubby haddoni's i've seen on here.

 

[God.]

Looks like haddoni to me.

Also try not to feed him until it really settles in.

 

[Daniel62]

Yes, that does look like a haddoni, You may want to ramp down you light for a week or so. And then slowly bring them back up, Leds are bright, but not always to our eyes. I started my out at about 30% and slowly ramped up to my current level 90 blue and 75 whites.

Good luck

 

[kingpin9995]

What about this guy not being sticky at all? Could this be from stress of the trip from Cali, and my lights being ramped up, or is that a sure sign of sickness and not stress?

 

[Daniel62]

From my experencie, not sticky usually means sick. Any that I have received in the mail were always super sticky. But when mine got sick and all 5 of them did get sick, they lost their stickiness. I would do the cipro treatment as soon as you can. Better safe that sorry. If he is healthy it can't hurt and if he is sick, it will diffinently help.