ID please...and requirements

[Sk8r]

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.

 

[Avi]

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.....

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

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:

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

 

[Azurel]

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]

Thank you both! I have a feeling this can be a pretty specimen if I can just get it settled.

 

[ecotoxlady]

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]

Yes! I should say to both of you---gorgeous! I should hope my little shellful turns out anything like those...

 

[Avi]

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:

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:

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