acros light color help

[falcon41176]

my acros are losing color. should i remove my phosban reator and carbon and shorten photo time.

 

[PUGroyale]

Tank parameters? Might get better advice if you post them

 

[falcon41176]

alk 3, cal 425, mag 1200-1225, phos 0, nitrate 0, amo 0, nitrite 0

 

[john f]

What test kits are you using??

John

 

[DaddyJax]

BB or sand? How long have you been running the Phosban? How many fish on what size tank? How much and often do you do WC's?
A good friend of mine has experienced loss of color like what you are describing and we talked about a few things and he added a few more fish and took the Phosban off and his colors came back!! He put the Phosban back and the colors started to fade again. I think that the phosban is something like medicine, if your not sick then don't take it! If you don't have any P04 then don't run it imo. Or if you want to prevent any returning or to keep it in check then run it once a week or something like that.

I dont think you should shorten the photo time.

 

[Michael Mota]

Is it just me or is people with phosban reactors having problems with colors on there coral? would be nice to see what happens if you remove the reactor, let us know cause I for one am interested in knowing if the colors get better without it.
Thanks

 

[sreefs]

Josh,
How many hours are your MH on per day? Also how much rowa or phosban are you using in your reactor? What is your salinity and what are you using to measure it? you can send me a pm.

Pat

 

[falcon41176]

mh 8 hrs. salinity 1.025 refractometer. use half of what they say to use on a 100 gallons. when are you going to the fish place next

 

[college429]

How are you feeding?
Remove phosban. Start target feeding to bring them back.
Losing color is often a sign of not enough feeding (nitrogen) available to the coral.

 

[sreefs]

I am going to try to get there Sunday afternoon. I will be in Pittsburgh Friday and Saturday. Maybe we can hook up and I can look at the system and see if I can help.
Pat

 

[fishy555]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7876792#post7876792 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by college429
How are you feeding?
Remove phosban. Start target feeding to bring them back.
Losing color is often a sign of not enough feeding (nitrogen) available to the coral.

I would also reccomend feeding them thats what i did and my coral feel happy.

 

[RichConley]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7874063#post7874063 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Michael Mota
Is it just me or is people with phosban reactors having problems with colors on there coral? would be nice to see what happens if you remove the reactor, let us know cause I for one am interested in knowing if the colors get better without it.
Thanks

What a lot of people dont understand is that theres no set number thats right here.

Light, phosphate, etc are all interrelated. When you get cleaner water, you need less light,etc.