Please diagnose my H. Magnifica

[Anemone0524]

Got him on Tuesday from Live Aquaria. He's struggling now though. Parameters are fine, CA=450, DKH = 8, SG = 1.025, PH = 8.2. He's under a TEK T-5 6 bulb unit. One mp40 nearby, and a K4 on the other side.

Clowns took a liking to him 12 hours after he got in the tank and started hosting hard. I removed them a few hours ago and put them in the sump. I know they didn't make it easier on the guy, but i'm not sure exactly what I need to do now to help.

Thanks for any advice you can give!

 

[vertwake]

Good luck! I just went through the same thing. That's how mine looked right before it died. Kind of slid sideways off the rock, mouth gaped open, and it pretty much disintegrated.

Here's my post:
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1957618

 

[celamb89]

i would try to keep the lights down with some screening or just not turning all the bulbs on... and Good Luck!

 

[garygb]

Sorry things are looking so dire for your mag. As is so often said, they don't ship well. The best you can do at this point is provide excellent water conditions. Some report success with antibiotic treatments (assuming a bacterial infection is what's ailing it), however, success with mags is limited from what I've read and quite an undertaking. Sometimes they rally, I hope this one does.

 

[Anemone0524]

i would try to keep the lights down with some screening or just not turning all the bulbs on... and Good Luck!

Keep the lights down?! I have been ramping them up because all I read about Mags is their high light requirement....

 

[LesMartin]

Keep the lights down?! I have been ramping them up because all I read about Mags is their high light requirement....

Yep. I have a mag that was doing great until I changed the bulbs. The next time they came on, after about an hour the mag looked like it had come out of the rear end of a cow. I couldn't figure out what was wrong until I suddenly realised. I screened it for a week until it became acclimatised. The old bulbs were approx a year old and had obviously lost a lot of PAR. The new ones were a real shock to the mag. Newly imported mags often look really good in the LFS and the aquarist gets them home and exposes them to the full glare of their high intensity lighting. They're just not used to it having been sat in the holding station then the wholesalers in relatively dim lighting. Just like a coral they have to be acclimatised.

 

[level65druid]

My mag was under pc at the Lfs, brought him and within a day he parked himself at the highest rockscape which is very close to the 400w halide and nearly tripled in size next day. I had no ideal he was so big. My point being, he wasn't acclimated but welcomed the lighting change for the better.