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Hi!
I am having trouble with keeping Magician palys. I had received a frag with a single polyp a few months ago. Initially, it was doing great, and opening up, and looked very beautiful. After a few days, however, the polyp closed, and has never opened again. It stayed closed for a few weeks, then shrunk up, and eventually disappeared.
I brought a new frag with 3 polyps on it from a different source two days ago. I went and picked it up from someone's tank, and they were nice and opened there. When I placed the plug in my tank, the polyps opened up in 30 minutes and were very nice and beautiful. The next day they closed, however, and stay closed since than, and I am afraid they would die away like last time. I have other zoas and palys in this tank, and never had an issue with any, except for magicians.
My water parameters are as follows: SG: 1.026, KH 8.5, Ca 430, NO3 10, PO4 0 (measured by Hanna HI713, but I am adding about 0.05ppm daily on a doser). No fish at this time, but feeding the corals with reefroids and Fauna Marin coral dust twice a week. The lights are LED. The person I bought them was also using LED.
I have read all the threads on Magician Paly in this forum, and I can see that for some people they just grow like weeds, regardless of placement or flow or anything, while quite a few others had reported issues just like mine: they do not open up, and gradually melt away. Some others reported slow or no growth in years.
I would like to understand what it is that may trigger the growth or death of magicians. Please help.
I am having trouble with keeping Magician palys. I had received a frag with a single polyp a few months ago. Initially, it was doing great, and opening up, and looked very beautiful. After a few days, however, the polyp closed, and has never opened again. It stayed closed for a few weeks, then shrunk up, and eventually disappeared.
I brought a new frag with 3 polyps on it from a different source two days ago. I went and picked it up from someone's tank, and they were nice and opened there. When I placed the plug in my tank, the polyps opened up in 30 minutes and were very nice and beautiful. The next day they closed, however, and stay closed since than, and I am afraid they would die away like last time. I have other zoas and palys in this tank, and never had an issue with any, except for magicians.
My water parameters are as follows: SG: 1.026, KH 8.5, Ca 430, NO3 10, PO4 0 (measured by Hanna HI713, but I am adding about 0.05ppm daily on a doser). No fish at this time, but feeding the corals with reefroids and Fauna Marin coral dust twice a week. The lights are LED. The person I bought them was also using LED.
I have read all the threads on Magician Paly in this forum, and I can see that for some people they just grow like weeds, regardless of placement or flow or anything, while quite a few others had reported issues just like mine: they do not open up, and gradually melt away. Some others reported slow or no growth in years.
I would like to understand what it is that may trigger the growth or death of magicians. Please help.
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