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So I have this problem now for a month or so in my relatively new 12l zoa pico, where the zoas are not completely closed and not completely open, ever,not at the beginning of the lighting ramp up, not at its peak, not at the ramp down, not when it's off and only has ambient room light.
Tried feeding powdered food, a drop of iodine, no flow, little flow, high flow, gradually turned down my light from 60% peak of 50W to 27% peak, nothing helped. On advise of a local, I added carbon and did a 99% water change, as a result the rastas, fire and ice and Johnny pumpkin are open now but with very very short skirts while the zoas with the bigger polyps like the VDM and armor of God are still only half open. After the water change with freshly mixed salt water, my briareum was completely closed for a couple days, but is fully open again now.
The zoas frags and the initial water came from my other tank where o don't have these problems at all. Still too much light?
Parameters :
1.0265 s.g.
1 ppm NO3
0.03 ppm PO4
8.3 dKH
Tried feeding powdered food, a drop of iodine, no flow, little flow, high flow, gradually turned down my light from 60% peak of 50W to 27% peak, nothing helped. On advise of a local, I added carbon and did a 99% water change, as a result the rastas, fire and ice and Johnny pumpkin are open now but with very very short skirts while the zoas with the bigger polyps like the VDM and armor of God are still only half open. After the water change with freshly mixed salt water, my briareum was completely closed for a couple days, but is fully open again now.
The zoas frags and the initial water came from my other tank where o don't have these problems at all. Still too much light?
Parameters :
1.0265 s.g.
1 ppm NO3
0.03 ppm PO4
8.3 dKH