Octospawn getting too much light?

Tristan · Jan 20, 2016

During the day my wall octospawn is really really retracted into the skeleton but during the night it's tentacles are extended 1/2 inch to 1 1/2 inches from the top of the skeletal base. This is about how much extended I saw it at the store so I'm guessing that's good.

Should I dim the lighting a bit?

Reefing Madness · Jan 20, 2016

Did the store have the same lighting as you? Is your more intense? Did you acclimate it to your lighting?

Tristan · Jan 20, 2016

Yes the store had led's. I have been slowly increasing it but i may not have been doing it slowly enough I guess. I also noticed my favites with red polyps and green walls was starting to turn all red and lose all the green.

Tristan · Jan 20, 2016

Reefing Madness said:
Did the store have the same lighting as you? Is your more intense? Did you acclimate it to your lighting?

Reefing Madness · Jan 20, 2016

Might have gone to far with the lighting. Dropping it down might just help you.

Tristan · Jan 21, 2016

Reefing Madness said:
Might have gone to far with the lighting. Dropping it down might just help you.

Have lowered the lighting by 25% for both blue and daylight but it is still closed up but not as much. I only see it really open at night.

Reefing Madness · Jan 21, 2016

Gotta ask then, whats your water params?

Tristan · Jan 21, 2016

Reefing Madness said:
Gotta ask then, whats your water params?

Nitrates: 5-10 ppm. Using salifert so it's kind of hard to read

Calcium: 455
Alk: 12.4
pH: 8.3
Mag: 1370

Used Red Sea for ^^

Reefing Madness · Jan 22, 2016

Phosphate?
How much does your PH drop off at lights out?

Tristan · Jan 27, 2016

Reefing Madness said:
Phosphate?
How much does your PH drop off at lights out?

My pH goes from like 8.3 to 7.9-8 at night. My phosphates are somewhere really close to 0.04

Reefing Madness · Jan 27, 2016

I've got no idea whats going on there, everything seems in place and correct.

Tristan · Jan 27, 2016

Reefing Madness said:
I've got no idea whats going on there, everything seems in place and correct.

Could it be possible damage from a fireworm?

mrbncal · Jan 27, 2016

What lights are you using? Is it possible that you have the coral directly under a white or red lensed led? The heavily focused light beam may be more than it can handle. I have had this problem before. I moved the coral and it went back to normal.

Tristan · Jan 27, 2016

mrbncal said:
What lights are you using? Is it possible that you have the coral directly under a white or red lensed led? The heavily focused light beam may be more than it can handle. I have had this problem before. I moved the coral and it went back to normal.

Im using led's. It is possible since I have another octospawn that I got from the same store that was in the same area on the same day and it is higher up. I don't really have anywhere else to put it though.