Maze Brain and Favia PLacement

[bfortune76]

A couple weeks ago I picked up a very cool looking Maze Brain and and a multi colored Favia. It's hard to tell in the pic but the Favia has hints of purple, green, yellow, and brown. They currently have been sitting in the lowest lighted section of my reef half shaded for almost 2 weeks. My last batch of corals I did not acclimate very well and both SPS and LPS bleached. I have gotten most of them to recover but don't want to make the same mistake.

Live aquaria says moderate light and medium flow. I am assuming these are both sand bed corals. My lights are two OR247's Blues/ whites are 65/45. Blues are on for 9 hours whites are on for 7. Should it be safe to move them out in the open if they are opening their mouths, feeding, and not fading? They seem happy where they are but its not an optimal location for viewing.

Some blues only pics.

 

[organism]

I'd start with slowly moving them more into direct light on the sandbed, then seeing whether they look like they could take more light. Those corals are a little touchy with white LED's when they first get introduced, looks like they're acclimating great so far!

 

[bfortune76]

Cool, that's exactly what I did last night. Inched them out a bit.


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[talamasca]

These things can adapt to anything IME just as long as you go slow.

 

[CLR]

following along with the favia tips, picked up a day glo favia and been watching it like a hawk.

 

[dreaddinit]

I placed my two frags on a rock in the center of the tank toward the front and will let it grow out to be a center peice.

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