New growth causing lack of color?

jason604 · #1 08-13-2014, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by gregzz4

I've found with my higher-up SPS that too much light causes them to grow spindly/colorless
Maybe just back-off your lighting a tiny bit and see what happens

I bleached all mine 'cause my lights were too much for them with my light bio-load; not enough food in the water column

Just go slow
Nothing good happens fast

Don't make major changes, and keep a record of what you do so you can track what is going on

i noticed color lost when i moved my lights 4" higher and increased blues from 75% to 100% and whites from 50% to 75%.. i lowered it back to original height but kept the intensity at 100 and 75.. nothing is bleached just lost color and plain/brown

Craigdillman · #2 08-13-2014, 04:32 AM

Phosphates also will hinder the sps coral color too some areore sonsitube Han others

gregzz4 · #3 08-13-2014, 04:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jason604

i noticed color lost when i moved my lights 4" higher and increased blues from 75% to 100% and whites from 50% to 75%.. i lowered it back to original height but kept the intensity at 100 and 75.. nothing is bleached just lost color and plain/brown

I'd only guess that the light intensity has had an effect and you should stop making changes now
Watch your corals and if they continue to lose color, put your lights back where they were to start with, and then make changes slowly from there

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Originally Posted by Craigdillman

Phosphates also will hinder the sps coral color too some areore sonsitube Han others

Umm, what ??? "areore sonsitube Han others"

Craigdillman · #4 08-13-2014, 12:57 PM

Wow lol " some are more sensitive than others" I know I never really seen my sps grow and color up good untill my p04 dropped down

gregzz4 · #5 08-13-2014, 01:21 PM

Hahaha, I see it now but woulda never guessed it

Ryanerickson · #6 08-13-2014, 03:24 PM

Are your water params fixed now last month your calc was like 310 did you ever test your phosphate? Your mag was also super low.

jason604 · #7 08-13-2014, 07:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Ryanerickson

Are your water params fixed now last month your calc was like 310 did you ever test your phosphate? Your mag was also super low.

My all is a stable 7. Cal still stuck around 310, I never been able to get it higher than that since I started my tank. Dunno why. Mag around 1200. I'm going to JL today to buy a phosphate test kit. I'm running one of those phosphate remover bags passive in sump in the same chamber as my carbon bag. Maybe the carbon is making it neutral? Should I run the phosphate bag in my filter sock instead? I was gonna order another led fixture today as well because I only have 1 16" fixture for my 4' tank this whole time. Also the tricoloured nana colony I got from you is starting to brown out the same time most of my other sps are as well. So I'm not sure of my lights are losing quality over time or not.

Ryanerickson · #8 08-14-2014, 02:39 AM

I would not buy any equipment fix your calcium problem.

jason604 · #9 08-14-2014, 05:19 AM

Ok this is rly weird. So I just bought a sail feet phosphate test and my results was 0 and nitrate also at 0. So how come I'm getting so much long green hair algae blooming everywhere?

daplatapus · #10 08-15-2014, 04:06 AM

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Originally Posted by jason604

My all is a stable 7. Cal still stuck around 310, I never been able to get it higher than that since I started my tank. Dunno why. Mag around 1200. .

I had the same issue when I started. SK8R wrote up a great post on RC explaining the relationship between alk, Ca, and Mg. From reading that post I only concentrated on getting my Mg stable first. Once it was around 1400, all my other parameters were easy to get in line.

None of that will help with your GHA, but thought I'd mention it if you wanted to read the thread and maybe help fix that little problem