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I just recently got a bigger light for my tank and I have a pice of waving hand it was doing great and today it looks like this
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So I moved it down in the tank to here
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And I was looking for any advice on anything else I can do to save it and all my water perms haven't changed any sence the new light


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Just put it in the shade for a little. Might just be acclimating to the new light. Especially if it is more powerful. Starpolyps, pipe organ and anything of that nature are very hardy so they should be ok
 
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thats what i was thinking i moved it to the botom where the light is less intence and i went from a regular fish tank light to a 4 bulb t5 unit with 2 12k bulbs and 2 acentic bulbs and 6 blue moon leds
 

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Yeah t5s are much more intense than normal compact fluorescent bulbs. Its probably just schocked.
 

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