Strawberry Shortcake

Arthur

Arthur

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View attachment 8210View attachment 8211View attachment 8209View attachment 8212 Hi. I have a question for you more experienced reefers. It is about Strawberry Shortcake. What you guys think its missing. I have that frag for about 2 Months. It is growing, encrusting on plug a lot and has polyp extension. Im concerned about color, just doll… I have my reef tank for 6 years but just for last year I'm converting more to SPS. Have a lot of small frags < except that crazy Stag that I have for last 5 years even when I didn't use RODI. Been thru a lot> Any opinions what could be wrong? Or maybe nothing, just the way it is… 125 MH-T5 combo. 2 WP-40. Dosing BRS 2 part manually. Sal.- 0.025 Cal.-440 Alk- 8.5 Mg-1350. Nitrate-10 Phosfate-0.01. I run GFO and Carbon just a little in sump. Thanks for all help in advance. ART
 
Your PO4 is too low may need to raise it up and feed more...or may be move the frag lower..It looks pale for me..
 
maidia said:
Your PO4 is too low may need to raise it up and feed more...or may be move the frag lower..It looks pale for me..
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I run 3-150w. MH and 4- 54w. combo
Im trying to watch Phosfate and Nitrate as I know can kill SPS quickly. Is 10 Nitrate ok? What Phosphate level you recommend? And does it look bad, unhappy? And by the way your frags look great, growing like crazy. Thanks again. :)
 
For me Nitrate 10 is OK, PO4 = 0.03 - 0.07 as people reccomended..Me, I like from 0.05- 0.10...

It's look pale..unhappy to me.
 
Ok. I know my fishes can use little more food for sure. Im just worrying that more feeding will increase Nitrate… So what is recommended level ( acceptable) of Nitrate for SPS tank? I heard so many different opinions. Thanks.
maidia said:
For me Nitrate 10 is OK, PO4 = 0.03 - 0.07 as people recommended..Me, I like from 0.05- 0.10...

It's look pale..unhappy to me.
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My Nitrate is < 0.25, you is little high...May need to try dosing carbon or some kind equivalent...
 
If your other coral are colored up good except this one then I would take this out and look at it with a magnifying glass while it is sitting in a coral dip...hopefully nothing peels off of it. There are a lot of bugs and worms going around this town. If it's clean, then perhaps try a little less light for a while to see if it perks up. IME, high nutrients lead to brown sps and too much light (too soon) can fade them. That being said, 10ppm nitrate should not brown anything or really cause any harm. For optimal color of healthy coral it seems a lot of people say that 0.25 is optimal. I'm happy if I stay below 1ppm but never want to hit zero contrary to some old-school thinking. I've seen some awesome acro tanks with 10-20ppm!! If this frag came from a tank that was very low nitrate and now sits in 10ppm then that could also make it unhappy until it acclimates.

You may never know but for now I'd dip and and put it under less light for a while.
 
What you suggest as a dipp? Bayer or Coral RX?
EricTheRed said:
If your other coral are colored up good except this one then I would take this out and look at it with a magnifying glass while it is sitting in a coral dip...hopefully nothing peels off of it. There are a lot of bugs and worms going around this town. If it's clean, then perhaps try a little less light for a while to see if it perks up. IME, high nutrients lead to brown sps and too much light (too soon) can fade them. That being said, 10ppm nitrate should not brown anything or really cause any harm. For optimal color of healthy coral it seems a lot of people say that 0.25 is optimal. I'm happy if I stay below 1ppm but never want to hit zero contrary to some old-school thinking. I've seen some awesome acro tanks with 10-20ppm!! If this frag came from a tank that was very low nitrate and now sits in 10ppm then that could also make it unhappy until it acclimates.

You may never know but for now I'd dip and and put it under less light for a while.
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Bayer is soooo much cheaper and works great. Coral RX works fine for aefw and red bugs which are the two main acro infesters.
 
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