Pink and Golds

[jarred1]

Do they color up nicer under high light or low light?

 

[dougers31]

I've been told high light is best.

 

[Nuocmam]

Pound them with light.

 

[butts182]

remember when you picked them up from me they looked better at the surface. i have my colony as high as i can get them. like they all said, blast them!

 

[jarred1]

They are under a 150w halide about 8 inches down in the water. How close can they be without bleaching?

 

[Nuocmam]

If they're like the ones I have I've never seen them shownany signs of bleaching.

 

[awcasper]

They were great under my Icecap 660 T5's but are brown under my Planet Aquaria 90w LED fixture (even after months).

Sup, Nuocmam!

 

[swannyson7]

+1 on high light. Mine are cooking a few inches down under my LEDs and they have great color

 

[tens8273]

Lol! Well, I guess I can add some value here since the pink and golds are probably from my colony that you got from Butts. If you are having them a bit browner than you like and you have enough nutrients in your system (good amount of fish), then blast them with light...they will color up nicely, pink skirt and gold disk. If you are still having trouble then you should take some nutrients out of your system or you just don't have enough light. In low nutrient systems and higher light, they get clearer...almost a transparency to their color...which is a look that you can see at Oceans Below. They look the best in my system eight inches from a 250W halide. Hope this helps.

 

[jarred1]

Cool, when I test my water the phosphates are undetectable. I have 2 black and white occ. clowns and one secretive wrasse, he is on his way out as soon as we begin to move. The zoas are about 8" offset from the 150w halide and they currently are 3" under the waters surface and they already look better. It wasn't that they weren't brown it was that the gold was like a rusty color, which is still nice but I'd like to see them a nice gold color.