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LFS has a blue monti digi that has been in their tanks since before xmas but due to them keeping it under a T8 unit it has lost it's colour but appears to be OK otherwise.
What are the chances of it colouring up if placed under halide and T5 lighting, do things tend to colour up quickly or possibly never.
Anyone got any experience of this with monti's in particular?
Cheers
Steve
Sean the Prawn
25-01-06, 09:56
If it still looks ok under just T8s :o then I'd grab it if I were you. Once under decent lighting and assuming your water quality is something like what sps require then it should colour up. It's always possible with any sps coral that it can change colour dramatically when it's in your tank, sometimes a bad thing but sometimes a good thing. Suck it and see!
Sean :thumbsup:
PS Don't really suck it ;)
When I say it looks OK I mean that it still has polyps out but there is no way you could tell it used to be blue in the condition it is in at the moment.
Cheers
Steve
I bought a Plating Monti frag a month ago. The seller told me it was
naturally a very light off white colour. Got home and placed it in
the tank and suddenly thought...its not 'light' by nature..its bleached! :angry:
A month later under MH and T5 its regained it color and looks fine.
I'd buy it, at a huge discount of course. :thumbsup:
Sean the Prawn
25-01-06, 10:19
Originally posted by ReefSteve@Jan 25 2006, 10:04
When I say it looks OK I mean that it still has polyps out but there is no way you could tell it used to be blue in the condition it is in at the moment.
Cheers
Steve
Yeh I meant if it looks as though it has survived being under totally inadequate lighting then it's ok and is probably a hardy specimen.
Sean
yeah! It isn't stripping or anything so might be worth a gamble...I'll probably get it if I can negotiate a decent price :whistling:
Cheers
Steve
SPS Hoover
25-01-06, 18:23
What are the chances of it colouring up if placed under halide and T5 lighting, do things tend to colour up quickly or possibly never
I'll have to let you know :lol:
I'll probably get it if I can negotiate a decent price
It was a good price thanks :o
I take we are talking about same place ;) Steve you should know better than leave a nice coral like lying around because some SPS Hoover is going to snap it up sorry m8 could believe it when i started reading this thread this evening
Did you spot the blasto sitting among the softies got that for a snip too :dance:
Sean the Prawn
25-01-06, 18:35
Originally posted by SPS Hoover@Jan 25 2006, 18:23
What are the chances of it colouring up if placed under halide and T5 lighting, do things tend to colour up quickly or possibly never
I'll have to let you know :lol:
I'll probably get it if I can negotiate a decent price
It was a good price thanks
I take we are talking about same place ;) Steve you should know better than leave a nice coral like lying around because some SPS Hoover is going to snap it up sorry m8 could believe it when i started reading this thread this evening
Did you spot the blasto sitting among the softies got that for a snip too :dance:
That is the most evil thing I have read on UR yet! :evil:
Funny though, unlucky ReefSteve :(
:lol:
:lol: :lol: :lol: Classic
simon garratt
25-01-06, 19:25
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDDDDD DDDD >
He strikes again............ :lol: :lol:
SPS Hoover
25-01-06, 21:34
Had to done I'm afraid................. its my name :lol:
:(
I guess I ummmed and arrrrred too long :rolleyes: and wasn't prepared to take the gamble..look like I will have to beg for a frag of it now
If my tank had been up and running before xmas I would of had it then!
Missed the blasto as well
Just to rub Instant Ocean into the wounds...what price did you get them for? IIRC the monti wasn't a bad price in the first place!
Love the way the few sps they had were under the T8's and everything else is under the halides. Did you see the other bleached acros? some of those were yellow with purple tips and one was a chunky yellow acro and another a purplish acro, again chunky...couldn't tell which was which now :lol
:
I did manage to get one of those before xmas, a cream acro with pinkish tinge...well thats what it looked like under the T8's
Cheers
Steve
SPS Hoover
26-01-06, 10:04
Just to rub Instant Ocean into the wounds
As you put it £18 each I did buy one of the arco's you mentioned too They were Acro. Humilus
Sorry again Steve
Originally posted by SPS Hoover@Jan 26 2006, 10:04
Just to rub Instant Ocean into the wounds
As you put it £18 each I did buy one of the arco's you mentioned too They were Acro. Humilus
Sorry again Steve
A. Humilis...are they the thicker looking acro's?
Before they bleached they had a few in various colours, a couple were brown/cream with possibly bluish polyps, another was yellow and one was a purple colour.
IIRC the yellow humilis was half stripped when I went in last week but they still wanted £18 and my tank wasn't ready and I think it was completely stripped when I popped in on Tuesday evening.
One of the humilis near the front of the tank was the purple one IIRC
If it's going to colour up then it's gonna do it under your halides...bit of a shock for them from several weeks under T8's :rolleyes:
Cheers
Steve
SPS Hoover
26-01-06, 12:15
A. Humilis...are they the thicker looking acro's
Yes with a thick blunt end to branch
One of the humilis near the front of the tank was the purple one IIRC
Thats a result because that was one i had.
They are in my Frag tank under 250w 14k they will stay there for a while then i'll move them into main tank.
Did you notice a completely stripped humilis at the front as well? That would have been a lovely yellow humilis!
For that negotiated price I might look at one of the yellow with purple tips acro's :whistling:
Cheers
Steve
SPS Hoover
26-01-06, 15:22
I would Steve they were not expensive, also if they all go they might some new ones in :ph34r:
Yep hopefully there getting some new ones in first or 2nd week of Feb the guy said to me today so i'll let ur know. :thumbsup:
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