Powder Brown Twitching

jackalexander · Dec 4, 2020

Just got a powder brown tang for my secondary tank at around 1, temp. acclimated him for about 15 minutes and acclimated him for an hour. Once I put him in he was doing fantastic, swimming around and picking algae off of the rocks and exploring every nook and cranny of the tank. I left the lights off for a couple hours but when I turned them on, he started twitching and not moving very much so I quickly turned them on and waited another 2 hours. I turned them on again but used my blues to slowly raise the intensity incase the whites were too shocking. Once I raised my blues intensity, he started twitching again. Any suggestions on what to do?

Uncle99 · Dec 4, 2020

Just leave the lights out and try again when they normally come on.
It’s very new to the environment.

ZoWhat · Dec 5, 2020

vetteguy53081 · Dec 5, 2020

Leave the lights low for 72 from introduction

jackalexander · Dec 5, 2020

Uncle99 said:
Just leave the lights out and try again when they normally come on.
It’s very new to the environment.

Yeah decided to wait until the morning lights come on, hopefully that works. Thank you!

jackalexander · Dec 5, 2020

very good advice for about 90% of the problems in this hobby ahaha

jackalexander · Dec 5, 2020

vetteguy53081 said:
Leave the lights low for 72 from introduction

sounds like a plan! thank you!

jackalexander · Dec 5, 2020

Just got him used to the sunrise/sunset LED’s & my blues, no twitching. seems to be the daylight lights which I can’t change the intensity. Tried to wait a full 24 hours on the white LED’s but no luck, still twitching. should I just wait longer?