Ricordea loosing color

[reef-nut]

I bought some blue ricordea from the divers den and in 3 days they are turning a light bluish purple color. I have them in my 20 nano under 130 wts of PC. I have orange and green ricordea in there also and they never lost any color when I first put them in.

 

[turbois300]

try shading them?? my rics like it in a more indirect lighting situation.

 

[oceanparadise1]

+1 on shading them

 

[Reef-N-Chicago]

shading, at least at first, will help for sure!

 

[Azurel]

If they are Florida ricordea you won't or shouldn't have to worry about shading them. 130 watts of PC isn't a whole lot for Florida ricordea even in a nano....I have had blue ones morph a bit from the original colors, how far under the lights are they? If they are Ricordea Yumas then some shade would be advised.......Divers Den has far more light the what you are giving them so they might just be acclimating to the lower light. I have all of my Florida Ricordea under direct MH 250w SE 14k about 8''to15'' under the lights.....

 

[fishes2889]

Florida Ricordea eat up my intense lighting. T5's-4x24w over a 20g long with a heigth of 12". I never have put my polyps into the shade other than yuma's.

 

[120inwall]

You could also try spot feeding them mysis.