yellow Fiji Leather

[SeaSydney]

Hi all, Do yellow Fiji Leathers require MH lighting to maintain their yellow color.?

thanks Mark 8)

 

[jadavis01]

I keep mine in a 30 gal with 4 x 55W PC and it went to "normal" gold/brown color in 2 weeks time.

 

[XXX]

Before I switched to MH I kept my yellow nder 4-96W pcs with no problem. It did very well and was one of the few corals that took awhile to adjust to the stronger MHs.

 

[npaden]

I've just had mine under MH so I don't know. I do know that they stay yellow under MH and grow very well.

Here is a recent pic of mine:

It has grown from about 4" square to it's current size (about 9" wide at the bottom to 12" wide at the top and about 18" long)
over about a 2 year period. I've never fragged it in that time but I'm considering fragging it sometime soon.

FWIW, Nathan

 

[jadavis01]

:lol: Wow, that is a beautiful tank! In that picture your toadstool leather looks the same color as mine, kind of a golden brown. My yellow leather was very yellow (just shy of lemon) when I bought it. I have seen bright yellow toadstool leathers in the Solomon Islands so I know they exist in nature.

 

[Anonymous]

What is the fish to the left of the clown and underneath the chromis??

 

[npaden]

Jadavis01,

The leather is the same color as the day I got it. I may have seen a few a little brighter, but it is definetly yellow not brown.

Rover,

That's a swallowtail angelfish. They eat zooplankton and come from a little deeper water (100' or so) and are supposed to be reef safe. So far mine has been a model citizen with LPS and clams scattered throughout the tank and a smattering of softies as well.

FWIW, Nathan

 

[Rabbit]

I found my leather kept it's color well, but oh my! A fussy Fussy coral!

Just moody, and difficult, worse than an SPS IMO.

Lovely thought,

David Roman

 

[SeaSydney]

Well I have mine in a 75 gal with two 96 watt Pc and it looks ok. Just that the polyp extension isn't very good. I am however about to add 2 more 96 watt PC to the tank. I also have a 56 gal with 2 175 watt MH so I could move it to thatb tank if it would do better under the Mh than the PC.
So the ? is what sould I do?

Thank you Mark

 

[Tcook]

This is a pic of my yellow leather that has grow under 250 watt Iwasakis for about a year and a half. The pic is just with the VHOs on. It will be moved to a 55 gal lighted with just VHOs. I'll post another pic down the road if the color changes.

 

[Tcook]

Well I have mine in a 75 gal with two 96 watt Pc and it looks ok. Just that the polyp extension isn't very good. I am however about to add 2 more 96 watt PC to the tank. I also have a 56 gal with 2 175 watt MH so I could move it to thatb tank if it would do better under the Mh than the PC.
So the ? is what sould I do?

It probably would do very nicely under the MH bulbs. My S. elegans is about 8" under a 250 watt 6500K MH bulb and just soaks up the light.

 

[Rabbit]

I haven't heard of them really changing colour, so you are probably alright. Unlike SPS's which can be down right rediculous!

Hey, don't worry over something that hasn't happend. I would be concered with polyp extension and that stuff.

I found the yellow fuji leather, and I got a home grown one, just plain fussy. Something would touch it and it would be closed up for a few days.

In my 20 g tank with *lots* of light, I found it like semi shade, and about 8 inches from the MH. Now I still have 2 actinic VHO's and 1 NO 50-50 bulb. So it had plenty of light, just didn't want it that bright - for me it was more like a mushroom.

HIH,

Do the Bunny hOp!

 

[Bill2]

My yellow fiji is about 20" from a 1000w MH HQI 10k bulb and it's loving it. It does close and open through out the day. Mine is even splitting off babies.