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11-24-2005, 11:46 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Savage MN.
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My Birds Nest is fading ?
I picked up a Birds Nest from trodder last weekend. In the last couple of days I have noticed that the pinkish color of it is starting to fade a little. I have it placed on the top about 4 " from the surface with my 6' VHO lights. What should the placement be for a Birds Nest ? I thought they only required minimum lighting such as a Monti, could I have it to close to the lights ?
Any suggestions ?
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11-24-2005, 02:32 PM
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Anti-Acan Activist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: St. Paul, MN
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ummmm... actually to keep color they need pretty high lighting. For some reason I though you had MH lighting.... Do you haev any future plans for a lighting upgrade.
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11-24-2005, 03:33 PM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: RED WING MN
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Time for MH??
Hi Dan, few if any birds nests are going to do well under Vho lighting, especially pink ones. Just not bright enough. |
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11-24-2005, 04:35 PM
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ex- Montipora Farmer
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Minneapolis
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I believe that they will lose color from high nutrient levels also
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11-24-2005, 06:55 PM
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Kichi Saru!
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: currently Nagaoka, Japan
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It took almost a 6 months for mine to color up under power compacts, but it was pink. Unfortunaly I lost it this summer.
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11-24-2005, 06:57 PM
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TCMAS Member
Join Date: Mar 2000
Location: Brooklyn Center, MN
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Depending on the birdnest though as some will still hold color. Bill Capman's thin branch birdsnest holds good pink color under VHOs but most other birdnest won't.
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11-24-2005, 06:59 PM
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Kichi Saru!
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Yea, I had Bill's thin branch.
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11-25-2005, 04:00 AM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Minnesota
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My pink birdsnest (that others referred to, and that might be what you got from Trodder?) would be sort of brownish for me with lower lighting, but hot pink if directly under my 400W MH bulbs. With intense lighting the color was amazing.
When I had this coral, I think my tanks tended to be higher in nutrients than many people's tanks (due to a variety of factors, not the least of which being really heavy feeding in my tanks), and in a number of cases I noticed that colonies that I gave away to others often did not have the same hot pink color in their tanks that my colonies had. In some other people's tanks they tended to be a paler pink. SO, I don't think higher nutrients will mess up the color for you. Low light probably will though. |
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11-25-2005, 08:56 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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When in my tank it is so intense the pink almost looks purple because of the coor of the 20k bulbs in conjunction with the bright flourecent pink color makes hard to look at without your eyes going buggy  With no lights on it, it usually looks to hot to touch it is so pink.
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11-25-2005, 09:28 PM
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big fishy
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Mounds View
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Mine needs to be in the brightest part of the tank (2X250 mh) to hold it's pink color. I moved some down to the bottom of the tank and it quickly turned more red.
Ken
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11-25-2005, 10:36 PM
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Shark
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Minnesota
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Originally Posted by trodder
When in my tank it is so intense the pink almost looks purple because of the coor of the 20k bulbs in conjunction with the bright flourecent pink color makes hard to look at without your eyes going buggy With no lights on it, it usually looks to hot to touch it is so pink. |
Did yours come from me originally? That is an awfully nice coral (I got it originally as a tiny frag from Shaun "Clam Man", years ago now...it was pale pink in his tank).
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11-26-2005, 12:41 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Savage MN.
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Survey say MH.
Live and learn.
Hey Frogbone you would take in a birds nest until I can get set up with MH ? Before I kill it!
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11-26-2005, 02:47 AM
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Anti-Acan Activist
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No Bill, I actually got mine from Skipp I think... I'm not sure where he got his from originally...
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11-26-2005, 11:42 AM
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The birdsnest in our 55 is going on 9 months now. Forget who we got it from back then. Anyway, it was browned out when we got it and put it under our 4x110 VHOs (2 SA, 1 AW, 1 AS). It is finally starting to color up. We can now easily see pink on all of the polyps. It is located as high as possible in our tank, about 5-6" from the surface. The main flesh is still brown.
Probably would do much better under MH. It has good growth under our VHOs, but the coloration may not ever fully return. It might need MH in the end. It is heathly and growing, so we will hold onto it and see how it goes.
Ryan.
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11-26-2005, 09:26 PM
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Lost in Reeeeef
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: The Reeeeef
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I have kept the birdsnest from Skip in a 2 foot wide tank with only 2 - T5 11k bulbs, at the top. It is very pink. HTH FWIW
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