Meteor Shower Cypastria

[jdog6973]

Can some one tell me what I am doing wrong! I am having a heck of a time keeping Meteor Shower Cypastria in my tank. Everything else is just fine but my Meteor Shower Cypastria is bleaching out. This is when I got it in August. https://www.dropbox.com/s/twmehmpxaihhx2h/2012-09-03%2013.22.57.jpg And this is today.https://www.dropbox.com/s/r4t48ic5145u7n7/2012-11-21 16.38.39.jpg Can any one help?

 

[rogersb]

Looks like too much light or not enough blue light. I recently ran my tank on just ATI blue plus bulbs to help acclimate some frags that had been lightless in my sump and after 3 days of just those I put all my lights on and my meteor shower had color like your first pic, where as it has looked like your most recent pic for most of its life in my tank.

 

[jdog6973]

I moved it to the bottom of the tank 3 weeks ago and it is shaded buy a chalace coral but I have not seen any improvements. I'm at a loss

 

[gchaney]

I have been fighting the same color issue but I fear to change anything as it grows like mad and has great polyp extension. I got it as the ball that in the middle and its huge now only about 6 months or so. Its even growing around the back of the rock out of light.

 

[gchaney]

Im going to try more light I moved a frag of it further up in my tank. will see how that does

 

[dayne]

They do better when shaded , I have 2 in my tank and the shaded 1 does much better both are from the same colony

 

[jg93]

I burned mine with my AI SOls when I upgraded my tank. I ended up putting it down in the shade in the sandbed. It took *months* to recover. Don't give up on it. Mine is healthy now and spreading - I reattached it to the very bottom of my liverock.

I got another frag of a different color Cyphastrea, put him near the bottom - and burned him too! He's now at the very bottom and just starting to recover (I caught this more quickly than my poor meteor shower.)

Anyway, again, give it time, under shade. These things seem to be very light sensitive. Once they catch though they spread like crazy! I had a bit that encrusted onto the live rock in my older tank with power compacts, it's now the size of a saucer place covering a huge live rock. Love it.

 

[sponger0]

Yes they can go in a virutally covers area. When I got mine it was brown and I put it under a cave and in time it was blue.

 

[mikexnxike01]

yup look like a little too much light?

 

[Frost3839]

Try an iodine dip. You never know what it could have on it. This could help big time! Doesnt hurt but could only help!