Palythoas

[Reefman29]

My nuke green palythoas seem to be loosing color. What can I do? They are at the bottom of my 30 gallon under 140 watts of T5 HO.

 

[Scopus Tang]

Some speculation out there on this changing soon, but currently Nuclear Greens are classified as protopalythoa . Anywho, if the color is fading, I would place them in the shade of your liverock.

 

[drainbamage101]

Place them in shade, or if possible another trick is to place them at an angle to the lighting-so instead of being perpendicular (the mouths facing "up" towards the lights) angle them so the mouth is now almost perpendicular to the lighting.

 

[Reefman29]

Okay I will try that now. How long will it take to work?

 

[Scopus Tang]

Place them in shade, or if possible another trick is to place them at an angle to the lighting-so instead of being perpendicular (the mouths facing "up" towards the lights) angle them so the mouth is now almost perpendicular to the lighting.

I think one of those perpendiculars is supposed to be parallel, but you got the idea. The color will come back slowly, time depending on how faded they are. Not usually gonna be an overnight fix.

 

[drainbamage101]

yea, the second perpendicular should be a parallel...what I get for playing with my vortechs all day trying to get some waves going.