Help! Tubs Birdsnest turning white!

[Bohemian Waxwing]

EDIT: Oh wow this thread is really old lol my bad

I wish I had seen this sooner. I had other people tell me that Tubbs liked high light and to put right under one of my Kessils. It was doing okay but hubby lowered the lights a little because my Rastas on the bottom were losing color. So after one day of that my Tubbs is 1/2 white :( the parts that’s are still colored polyp up so I’m waiting to see how he does. Put him on the bottom of the tank for now. I hate to have to cut him up in frags :(

Still a lot of hope for this one. Check your alk and phosphate, just make sure nothing is way out of the ordinary.

It's not your T5s...its not LEDs....its not halides.

Birdsnests are notoriously fussy about phosphate and nutrient levels. More so than some acropora like green slimers.

Quick nutrient swings or uber low phosphate is what kills most birdsnests.

I have bnest directly under my LEDs and directly under my T5s, less than an inch from the surface, so I agree with you!

Bad pic as tank is just waking up, but this guy is getting hammered by T5 and a Prime 16HD 6" directly above it, doubles in size every month. They HATE alk swings!