frog spawn bleaching

[pairenoid]

so i got a medium size frogspawn a few weeks ago for 25 bucks, it was perfect. It looks bleached now and more transparent, but its grown like 3x the size in this short amount of time

am i able to spot feed it? i think its fine because it hasnt gotten worse, and the tentacles are huge n longer than when i first got it, but i thought it looked much better before the bleaching because the green was almost neon green. Now its a light grass color green

i only have t5's, but i have a 12 inch height and its towards the top er medium

 

[JesseMessykinn]

Try dropping it back to the sand bed, If it seems good there id leave it down there.

 

[pairenoid]

that was my original plan but i cant get the frogspawn to go anywhere because of the way his stem is

basically its like a short stem and a huge frogspawn, making it hard to balance any where. I literally sandwhiched it between 2 rocks, i like the spot too, although i would prefer it to be in the sand

also, i cant really have any corals in the sand because i have lots of sand sifters

 

[Zactheninja]

Try spot feeding a bit, if all parameters are good it would have to be lighting as the base of your problem, what lights are you running?

 

[Zactheninja]

Oh t5's


How many? And the tank is 12"?

 

[Dav3]

If it is not showing signs of tissue receding and is bleaching then probably too much light. Based on you description however it sounds like you don't have enough blue light(~440-460nm). That could cause the coral to be less green.

 

[Dav3]

And spot feeding won't help color.

 

[Ingy]

A couple indicators of not enough light are colours going more muted and brown and extended tentacles. My frogspawn about 14-16" below 4xT5 has nice colour but the heads on the lower part have much longer tentacles than the head on the top. That is so they can gather more light.