Why Are The Growing This Way?

[loglew]

Why are these which I think are a brown zoa seem to be growing such a long steam?

 

[HUNTINREDNECK]

if thay are brown zoas thay might not have enougf light

 

[loglew]

I wondered that, they are right under a 250W MH, just for refrence.

 

[blammomike]

they get long like that when there not enough light

 

[CrazyZoa]

Like anything that needs light and aren't getting it, they are reaching for all they can get.

 

[tens8273]

gotta be light issue. never seen zoas getting necks that long unless they are super stretching towards more light.

 

[tate1]

How old are the bulbs?

 

[loglew]

bulbs are pushing six months working on getting some replacments now

 

[loglew]

Someone refresh me on the best bulbs for growth. I like the blueness of the 1400k, and i know that its in the middle, but is it 20k, or 10k that grow better.

 

[ARealmsLLC]

I have always had EXCELLENT growth on my zoanthids and palythoas under 20K lighting.

My purple death palys, devil's armor palys, AOI's, and a bunch of "regular ones" (RIP - daughter killed them when she got ahold of the thermostat for the heater) were growing so fast I was fragging and re-fragging the previous frags every month or so just to keep things under control.

 

[loglew]

Thanks Scott, just ordered some new 20K bulbs!

 

[StillerNat]

the bests for growth are 10k or 6500k cause they are closer to natural sunlight. i like the 20k cause its got a little blue in it to help actinic.

 

[A. Grandis]

I wondered that, they are right under a 250W MH, just for refrence.

How deep?
The fact that you have MHs doesn't proof the problem is not enough light.

Did you post a picture with the first message?
I wonder because I couldn't see any.

Try move it closer to the light, horizontally.

Grandis.