Radioactive Dragoneye Help

[sh0tyme83]

Hello fellow reefers-

This past weekend, I picked up my first zoos. I picked up some pinks, oranges, and then about 5 polyps of radioactive dragoneyes. I got them home right away and began acclimating so they were not in the bag for long. They all opened in my tank about 5-6 hours later. My problem is that my dragoneyes zoos seem to have lost all green in them. I know this is because of lighting, but the Pinks are a full bright pink and the oranges are a nice bright orange as well. Why would my dragoneye zoos lose the green color and the rest of the zoos retain their color?

Tank Info:

The zoos are about mid tank and I have 2-65 watt PC blue artinics and a 150 watt 10k Metal Halide.

 

[otiso777]

It could be stress from the move and acclimating to the new light. Give it a couple of weeks and the color will come back

 

[MUCHO REEF]

Zoanthid and palythoas alike are found in different regions and at different depth. Some require lots of light, some, not as much. Both will acclimate to whatever light source you have, as long as it's adequate. Meaning, you can't have one strip of pc's on a 90 gallon system and expect them to radiate a lot of color

My concerns would be

1. Were they shipped or picked up locally?

2. What type of lighting were they under before you received them?

3. Were they under halides in the previous tank?

If the ones in question were under a dramatically different light source, I can see this happening very easily.

Also, you may not have lost the green at all. Did you mean they were green in his tank but not green in yours? Lighting alone could account for the color shift or it could simply be the combination of bulbs that you have that aren't causing the green to fluoresces as it did in his tank.

Also, some polyps will simply react in a new system and absolutely nothing is wrong.

I really hope they come around for you. Give it a few days an see and please give us an update. We all learn from things like this and I'm very interested to know what happens.

Good luck my friend.


Mucho Reef

 

[sh0tyme83]

It was a local pickup from a buddy who fragged them for me. He has a 120 reef and has two metal halides hanging over the tank in the canopy. They were very flourescent green in his tank like you see in all the pictures.

 

[MUCHO REEF]

What wattage and K value were his bulbs?

Type of actinics and wattage?


MR