tufacody
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After saying I wouldn't try a mag again, well, I did. My mag has been doing iffy, but so far I've had it 5 weeks.
The mag is in a 65 gallon cube that is tied into a 300 gallon system. Almost every day that I have had it I have looked at it at one point and said either "wow, he looks great" or "crap, I give it 24 hours". Its obviously trying to equalize but despite meticulous water parameters it can't seem to. Its feeding response is also iffy at best. Still, he's hanging in there.
So here's the questions. The nem is under an Outer Orbit 250 watt halide-T5 system. The light is 13 inches above the water and then nem is another ten inches under the waterline. It has not moved to the very top.
I replaced the stock current bulb yesterday with a 14k Ushio. The light is much whiter and visibly more appealing but it appears darker than the stock bulb. I don't know if it is actually putting out less par, but given what I have heard about the stock bulbs in the Outer Orbit I would kind of doubt it. The stock bulb was of course very yellow, but seemed very bright to me.
The nem doesn't seem happy about the change though, but I'm just not sure I can attribute it to this. As I've said, he's a fighter but is just crashing daily. He has pretty much stayed deflated all day, and I'm not sure what to do. I do notice that he usually appears his best in the morning before the halides even come on. Boggle. Throughout the day he could be great or he could be completely deflated.
I wondering if mag keepers would suggest putting the 10k Current bulb back in, or maybe even lowering the unit closer to the water (although I think the nem would have crawled to the highest point if it wanted more light). The other choice is, of course, to wait it out.
Thanks for the opinions.
The mag is in a 65 gallon cube that is tied into a 300 gallon system. Almost every day that I have had it I have looked at it at one point and said either "wow, he looks great" or "crap, I give it 24 hours". Its obviously trying to equalize but despite meticulous water parameters it can't seem to. Its feeding response is also iffy at best. Still, he's hanging in there.
So here's the questions. The nem is under an Outer Orbit 250 watt halide-T5 system. The light is 13 inches above the water and then nem is another ten inches under the waterline. It has not moved to the very top.
I replaced the stock current bulb yesterday with a 14k Ushio. The light is much whiter and visibly more appealing but it appears darker than the stock bulb. I don't know if it is actually putting out less par, but given what I have heard about the stock bulbs in the Outer Orbit I would kind of doubt it. The stock bulb was of course very yellow, but seemed very bright to me.
The nem doesn't seem happy about the change though, but I'm just not sure I can attribute it to this. As I've said, he's a fighter but is just crashing daily. He has pretty much stayed deflated all day, and I'm not sure what to do. I do notice that he usually appears his best in the morning before the halides even come on. Boggle. Throughout the day he could be great or he could be completely deflated.
I wondering if mag keepers would suggest putting the 10k Current bulb back in, or maybe even lowering the unit closer to the water (although I think the nem would have crawled to the highest point if it wanted more light). The other choice is, of course, to wait it out.
Thanks for the opinions.
