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I got some blow pop, nuclear waste and Bambam zoas from an online shop and they came in looking a bit rough with super dull colors so I had them in quarantine for a few weeks under a weaker light meant for a fuge. When I put them in my main tank, no matter how I set my lights, they still wouldn't color up like the photos from the site. They have some color but it's just so dull. There's no definition between the different colors on each polyp - the bam bams are just a uniform neon orange, the nuclear wastes are just an olive drab and the blow pops are Grey with a touch of orange. Compared to my LPS and ricordeas, you can barely tell the zoas from the rock.
It's a small 12" cube running cheap hipargero leds with blue at 3/10 and white at 1/10 for 7 hrs a day. Could it be the temperature getting warmer as summer arrives? Did they puke out their zooxanthellae in quarantine or shipping? I feed reef roids once a week and do a 40% wc every 2 weeks. I've seen one or two polyps expelling a dark brown pellet from their mouths. Maybe I need to start dosing magnesium? Iodine? Kalk? What's going on? I must be messing up something, zoas can't be this underwhelming in real life, right?
It's a small 12" cube running cheap hipargero leds with blue at 3/10 and white at 1/10 for 7 hrs a day. Could it be the temperature getting warmer as summer arrives? Did they puke out their zooxanthellae in quarantine or shipping? I feed reef roids once a week and do a 40% wc every 2 weeks. I've seen one or two polyps expelling a dark brown pellet from their mouths. Maybe I need to start dosing magnesium? Iodine? Kalk? What's going on? I must be messing up something, zoas can't be this underwhelming in real life, right?