Zoos Melting?

[Viperboy]

I just got about 5 frags of zoos and about 3 are doing ok while the other 2 seem to be like melting/turning white and are not opening? ... any idea what this could be?

 

[650-IS350]

Don't know but when this happens, I just cut it off so that what ever it might be dosn't affect the rest of the other polyps.

 

[Viperboy]

It is pretty much the whole frag and it came from a LFS that i trust very well and it looked amazing in their tank .... could it be the shock from MH at the store to my CF ..... i have a 10gallon nano with the 96 watt fixture over it

 

[ssavader]

The MH are indeed probably at fault. You have a 96W MH bulb over a 10 gal tank which mostly likely has some sand and rock. Lets say you have 2 gal of displacement, leaving 8 gal of water. This equals 12W light/ gallon of water (96W/8gal). LPS corals like 5-7 W/gal and they need max. light. Zoos need much less light and do well under T5's or bright fluorescents. Hopefully, the remaining three colonies will adjust. Move them to the lowest spot in the tank and move them up (?) slowly as they acclimate.