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Posted by Charles Spitzer on April 18, 2005, 1:24 pm
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they need sunglasses. the new bulb is a lot brighter than they're used to.
> Hi all;
>
> Had two thriving corals (bubble coral and button polyp coral) that were
> doing fantastic. I decided to change my 20K Coral Life bulb last month.
> The corals were doing fine until about 2 weeks since I changed the bulb.
> The bubble coral closed and clamped up, and the button doesn't open the
> usual way. The button is still alive and opening, except not as it used
> to, but the bubble is dying; it's flesh literally rotting off the
> skeleton.
>
> Yellow tang and chromies (spelling?) are thriving and doing fine, as are
> the mushrooms and the rest of the shrimp, crabs et cetera.
>
> Based on this, I can only assume it was a light problem; but if so, what
> and why? Could the bulb be defective? I have no clue as to what happened.
>
> All parameters are fine, except I have not done a water change in over 3
> months. But then again, I've done that before and all inhabitants appeared
> fine.
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard
>
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>
>
> --
> "Dum Spiro, Spero."
>
> As long as I breath, I hope.
>
> Cicero (Ancient Rome)
>
>
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> Had two thriving corals (bubble coral and button polyp coral) that were
> doing fantastic. I decided to change my 20K Coral Life bulb last month.
> The corals were doing fine until about 2 weeks since I changed the bulb.
> The bubble coral closed and clamped up, and the button doesn't open the
> usual way. The button is still alive and opening, except not as it used
> to, but the bubble is dying; it's flesh literally rotting off the
> skeleton.
>
> Yellow tang and chromies (spelling?) are thriving and doing fine, as are
> the mushrooms and the rest of the shrimp, crabs et cetera.
>
> Based on this, I can only assume it was a light problem; but if so, what
> and why? Could the bulb be defective? I have no clue as to what happened.
>
> All parameters are fine, except I have not done a water change in over 3
> months. But then again, I've done that before and all inhabitants appeared
> fine.
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> "Dum Spiro, Spero."
>
> As long as I breath, I hope.
>
> Cicero (Ancient Rome)
>
>