PD and NG Placement?

[jasert39]

where do you folks have your purple deaths and nuc. greens in relation to you lighting? I am running 250's over my tank and both of my frags (which I have had for sometime) are about halfway down in my standard 125 gallon tank. I do get new polyp growth, but they are never real full or looks completely open like some pictures i see online.

thanks
Jay

 

[Hypertek99]

I have them shaded and med to low flow.

 

[jasert39]

thanks, i was going to move them down a bit and see if i could get some better extension.

 

[geoxman]

why don't you experiment and see what they like and how they will morph? Place them up high just too see? You might get a brighter more yellow out of your green polyp and a brighter pinkish violet out of you purple polyp. I am quite sure they can handle higher lights and if not they will adjust. good luck with them

 

[ficklefins]

Have you tried feeding your NG/PD? When I first got my frags I was feeding them every other day and they were taking off. Now that I am not feeding them they are not spreading as fast.

I feed them with the same pellets I feed my fish, but I take the time to cut them in half. In stead of trying to drop it in the right place I use a piece of rigid airline tubing to direct the half pellet to the polyp. This method works really well when the flow is off and if you have enough patience. Rigid airline tubing can be purchased at petco for less than $3 and I use it for feeding, moving corals around my sand bed, turning snails over in my sandbed, as a connector for my brine shrimp hatchery, and as a connector for my kalk drip.

I've got T5 lights and from what I noticed when you keep them high up they fade a bit and develop white spots. When you keep them low they keep a good green color but they reach toward the light. Between those heights is where you will want to balance your light and possible feeding techniques.

 

[jasert39]

well i moved the ng's down this afternoon to see what happens there, maybe ill move the pd's up...my colors aren't nearly what i see online all the time, but I am running xm10K's with no supplementation what should I expect, haha.

 

[geoxman]

ficklefinns-why did you not leave it to see what it would turn into?? A purple or green polyp with white spots? My guess is they would have turned all pink or brighter yellow and you would have had another goofy named polyp. JMHO

 

[ficklefins]

Geoxman,

I had them up there for some time and seeing them with white spots and a darker/dirtier color really turned me off. So I decided that I wanted color vs propagation.

 

[Hypertek99]

Yep Nuclear Greens develop white spots in high light. They glow under lower light. Purple Deaths like lower light also. I think in high light they turn maroon or brownish.

 

[Azurel]

I have my Nuclear greens under direct lighting and high flow about 4 inches from the surface of the water. There has been no morphing at all and they have really taken off again. The open completely.....I will try and take some pics.....