Help me with my green slimer. I had it quite low in my tank for around 1 month. It looked good. I then moved a little higher in my tank. After a few days it started bleaching, i immediately moved back down but it's not recovering. Any suggestions? The tank is a 90g with a 30g sump with SWC 160 skimmer. I have a marineland fixture that house 4 h5to and 2 150w MH. THe lights sit 6 inches from the water. Calcium is right around 400 and magnesium is between 1300 and 1400. PLease help.
Help With Green Slimer
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ricardoz
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i think it is the lighting problem, 150W is not enough to keep any SPS at the bottom, so maybe move is to the top right under the MH is the solution, but i'm not quite sure about that, for i 've never kept slimer, but i'm now keeping SPSs with 150w MH and i put them all at the top of the tank, so they are all good, but all my SPSs are the kind that needs only moderate lighting. and what about your KH? and NO3 PO4 levels? they are all significant to SPS.
Alex T.
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Some 150 watt bulbs will be fine for SPS...depending on the depth of the coral.
Green Slimers are usually fast growers. Even so, moving it up to the top of the tank after a month in the lower lit sandbed could have stressed it. Keep it on the sandbed and wait again. Then, move it up slowly. A 150 watt halide coupled with daylight t5 bulbs should be enough for the GS. Mine is a foot away from the center of a 400 watt Radium but it is only 8 inches off the sandbed in a 27" deep tank with the bulb and reflector a foot off the water surface. So, in essence my Slimer is 31" away from the light source. Coloration is great and it is still my fastest growing SPS coral.
Green Slimers are usually fast growers. Even so, moving it up to the top of the tank after a month in the lower lit sandbed could have stressed it. Keep it on the sandbed and wait again. Then, move it up slowly. A 150 watt halide coupled with daylight t5 bulbs should be enough for the GS. Mine is a foot away from the center of a 400 watt Radium but it is only 8 inches off the sandbed in a 27" deep tank with the bulb and reflector a foot off the water surface. So, in essence my Slimer is 31" away from the light source. Coloration is great and it is still my fastest growing SPS coral.
