Birdsnest Bleaching! Help

[Justin144]

I recently bought two colonies of Birdsnest and have had them for about 4 days now. I glued them to a rock pretty high in the tank. I noticed today theyre loosing a bit color and turning kinda white on me. Is there anyway for me to fix this?
I heard its from them producing to much zooanthelia, i recently raised my temp of my tank 4 degree to from 74 to 78. Cause???
i did a water change friday
Can anyone help me out?
tested water and everything is fine. ALK is a little low but not by much Salinity is at 1.022- 1.023 should i raise it to 1.025?
How can i fix this and bring there color back out?

I just broke the glue off and theyre on the sandbed now.. but will this even help?

Thanks for the help.


NOTE: I also bought Montipora colonies at the same time and theyre doing great.

 

[WatercolorsGuy]

Re: Birdsnest Bleaching! Help

What kind of lights are you running? How far from tank surface are lights?
Temp should be 78-80 imo. Salinity should be raised over the course of several days to 1.025.

 

[Justin144]

What kind of lights are you running? How far from tank surface are lights?
Temp should be 78-80 imo. Salinity should be raised over the course of several days to 1.025.

Im running Halides 20K 400w about 9 inches off the water. Its only the birdsnests doing this

 

[09bumblebee]

Put it low in the tank and slowly every week move it back up.

 

[Justin144]

Put it low in the tank and slowly every week move it back up.

+1 Yeah im going to try that

 

[ReeferMatt]

Birdsnests are lower light coral, under t5 I have mine mid tank. Birds of paradise birdsnest and greens like the least amount, and Ponape's will tolerate a bit more light. So move them down and all will be well!!

 

[Justin144]

Birdsnests are lower light coral, under t5 I have mine mid tank. Birds of paradise birdsnest and greens like the least amount, and Ponape's will tolerate a bit more light. So move them down and all will be well!!

Ah i had thought they liked high light. So i should keep them lower near bottom? Good to know. I have both green and purple birdsnest
Thanks!!!!

 

[Justin144]

my tank is about 7-8 watts per gallon. i hope thats not to bright for them

 

[Andrew_bram]

Birdsnest Bleaching! Help

I have birdsnest under 250 mh and cant raise them over half way up.


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[Justin144]

I have birdsnest under 250 mh and cant raise them over half way up.


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thats great to know now, ill just keep them really low to the bottom
Thanks

 

[Cake_Boss]

Re: Birdsnest Bleaching! Help

Im running Halides 20K 400w about 9 inches off the water. Its only the birdsnests doing this

What size of tank do you have? How deep?

 

[Justin144]

Tank is a 70 gallon. 19 inches deep

 

[Cherub]

i had a similar issue that turned out to be low alk. Now my alk is in the 9-9.5 range which is kinda high for some people but things look great so I'm sticking with it.

 

[Justin144]

i had a similar issue that turned out to be low alk. Now my alk is in the 9-9.5 range which is kinda high for some people but things look great so I'm sticking with it.

yeah my alk was at 7.. a bit to low haha so i raised it up. hopefully it will help, thanks