tyree red watermelon

[zoeyo5]

i have a frag of the tyree red watermelon and all the red faded out of it. it has a nice bright green rim yet and yellow eyes but the base of it turned to a dull greyish blue color with a couple of faded pink specks in it. could it be a light problem to much or to little. i have it on the bottom in a 75 gallon under 20,000k 150w halides with t5 blue+. all water parameters are good except mag always test around 1450-1500 range.

nitrate 0-2 salifert
phos. .05 hanna
alk. 9 salifert
cal. 450 salifert
mag. 1450-1500 salifert

 

[zoeyo5]

where's all the chalice expert's??

 

[AquaWorldPSC]

Pic will help, so were all on the same page of what it looks like ha

 

[gar732]

Unfortunately I have no info to help you out, but I have a tyree pink watermelon did the same exact thing. It was in lower light so I moved it up a bit, been there a couple of months, and still nothing. I'm curious to see what others have to offer.

 

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Feed it!!

 

[aquafrags]

my red watermelon loves to eat, if not the color will fade, I feed him every other day,, with mysis, fish pellets and I just got soem lps food from fauna marin

 

[gar732]

Feeding hasn't helped with mine. I don't have the exact numbers right now but my water parameters are good. Where does everyone with nice bright red and pink ones have theirs and under what kind of light? I'm wondering if it needs high light.

Sorry to thread jack but at least its relevant.:angel:

 

[zoeyo5]

i don't have a great camera but i'll see if i can get a decent pic. it seem's healthy and growing just the color faded. i don't feed it cause i got too many crabs in there and they steal the food, but if you's think that could be it i'll cut a piece of pvc pipe to put around it so the crabs can't get in at it and feed it.

thanks for the help

 

[fishypets]

What's the salinity like?

 

[zoeyo5]

1.026

 

[aquafrags]

I have never had mine in high light, he is much happier under T-5.

 

[reefer916]

Try Brightwells Coral Amino's. I love to buy dull colored name brand chalices and color them up in my tank. I use either Brightwells or Aquavitro's Fuel and it seems to color up my chalices pretty well, except for my frag of Bazooka Joe. I'm still trying to figure that guy out.

 

[Dave3112]

Mine colored up when I moved it up in the tank. It is about 18" below my lights which are DE 250w 14k MH. As for feeding I NEVER spot feed my tank and all my chalices as well as my acans and sps all have beautiful color. It may grow faster if I were to feed it but I don't plan on fragging it so I don't care about the faster growth rate. HTH

 

[TwistedEnvy]

I agree, usually feeding chalices is not the thing that will make or break their color. I would move it up into some light and see how it does there.