Reason for dull/faded colors in sps

GFO as needed. Some of my corals do not LEDs. My red planet is one of them. No idea why. It has taken longer acclimated to the LEDs than others, and doesn't grow near as fast. All my montis exploded under LEDs. Acros needed more time to adjust. I agree with moving them. Might be in a hot or cold spot of the LEDs.
 
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maidia said:
Your first post said 0.03..Dammit
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ohhh ahhhh lol

really confusing ..

i was asking ghostman if he was running any gfo ..

i wouldnt run gfo ever.. My tank its 0.03 phosphates .. so you are saying i should feed more ?? then Nitrates would go up too right ??
 
No if your nitrates is high. If both low then feed the coral..In your case move your coral down and do what are you doing right now.
You don't need to run GFO...
 
Like I said above, move the corals down a little. If you move the light or change the light then the other coral happy before will not happy (you never know). So move those 2 corals is the best thing to try.


Some said over RC.

1. Time = It takes time to SPS to return its color, give it at least 2 months.

2. Lighting = Too bright you get too light color, too little you get brown shades

3. Nutrient (NO3, PO4) = If it is detectable, you got too much and you will get dark shades or brownish color. Especially phosphate.

4. Coral feeding = too some degree it helps if 1 - 3 are met.

Of course there are always exceptions for some colonies but I believe they are general important things to look at.

I have friend with 12 ppm NO3 and 0.2 ppm PO4 but a few of his acropora colonies are showing beautiful colors. (Unfortunately only a few of them, most of the acropora assumped dark/ brownish color in his tank.)
 
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tinman said:
thats what im trying to achieve by lowering the white light time. mine being a small tank i cant really move the corals :( sucks having a nano i think. so light and flow are the only things i can play with.


Also it would really help if sps pros post their Nitrate levels :D is 0.75 -1 ppm too much ?
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Lol i havent tested nitrates or phos in yrs think jesus gave me my test kits for those. I cant tell u my light cycle is 10am to 9pm blue channel (i swapped in few whites so its not 100 percent blue ) 12pm to 5pm both channels 100 percent cal 420 alk 10.5 i use brs 2part and dose 3ml day kent tech mag 2 ml day acro power . I had similar issues with few corals loseing colors and just moved lower colored back up in few weeks. From my experiance if they all not looking crappy just few most likely dont like the light its in . I had one in 700 par moved to 500 and colors were back and better then ever some had to be koved to 300 range . Playing with light cycle might help those two corals but may make the onea doing good look bad so its hit or miss
 
Just to clarify, I do run GFO to keep my PO4 near 0.03. I think some phosphate is healthy. I also keep nitrate below 5.0, as I think some nitrate is healthy too. Those are just my opinion and numbers. I totally agree with moving the corals lower to see if that makes a difference.
 
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