milli losing its long tentacle

[jordanh]

I got a ORA blue mille frag a while ago and since
I have gotten it all of the polyps have lost their long tentacle and have equally long tentacles all around. I've since changed to using only RO/DI water and have noticed that the color is coming back and its growth has increased ( it was actually quite brown ), but the tentacles are still all short. Has anyone had this happen to theirs before? Do you think it was just the poor water quality?

 

[PL-Reef]

water prams.?

 

[twon8]

flow?

 

[clkwrk]

ect?

 

[Wiskey]

Do you have a nipping fish? Do the longer tentacles come out at night?

Whiskey

 

[an-sps]

do you have any kind of angels??

 

[clkwrk]

I would hope there isn't an angel in a 10g tank

 

[jordanh]

The only fish in there is a pink skunk clown. I measured Alk and Ca today. Alk was somewhere between 9 and 10 and I boosted the Ca up to around 400. It has pretty heavy flow over it, it sits under a HOB filter and there is a PH on the opposite sided pointing indirectly at it.

 

[jsweir]

This is a common occurance, you really need somewhat strong and very random water motion to keep the milli polyps long. I have many millis in my tank and only one has kept longer polyps, but not as long as when I first got it. I bought a Tunze wavebox hoping it would be part of the solution.

 

[ctxmonitor]

i think this happen alot more than you think. Once the frag start growing and adapting to the new tank, it will slowly show the longer tentacles. Give it some time.

 

[Justin/TiV]

If your params are fine...this is due to lack of flow...I've seen it in my tank...also random flow will help