Awesome arco colour but brown polyps
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usually when i pick up a frag or colony for purchase, i look more on the polyps color than the body; not totally saying that, with my water parameters and lighting plus my husbandry, i can retain the polyp color, but definitely i have a better chance of making the body color up.
Yea but what do you exactly need to know dude?
Frankly havnt tested for about a month but i personally dont trust the readings too much. Rather i use my mates like hair algae, algae, colour of the SPS and etc who will tell me the PO4 and NO3 level pretty accurately.
I believed they have always been next to zero since i set up the tank a year ago with biopellet and GFO.
Cheers. :beer:
True.
But i guess it is all by experience on individual tank and personally believes.
I play around with the amount of biopellet, its flow rate, use of GFO, carbon and etc, which results in different behaviours of animals and algae in the DT. From there, it sort of gives me a clue on what is the best for my corals.
As such i start not to worry about testing PO4 and No3...
But i guess it is all by experience on individual tank and personally believes.
I play around with the amount of biopellet, its flow rate, use of GFO, carbon and etc, which results in different behaviours of animals and algae in the DT. From there, it sort of gives me a clue on what is the best for my corals.
As such i start not to worry about testing PO4 and No3...
MammothReefer
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Just how it goes. I've bought many corals based on interesting looking coral polyps, but rarely do they hold them outside of just the tips, and those corals are few and for between more corals just have brown polyps or white.
Thanks for all your info.
My experience on another deep water SPS - was interesting - it came with brown polpys as well and for some reason my majestic angel always liked to pick on its polyps, which obviously no PE except night time. Few months later, the majestic died from iches. The SPS PE again but with white polpys. And more importantly they stay white that has already been about a few months.
My experience on another deep water SPS - was interesting - it came with brown polpys as well and for some reason my majestic angel always liked to pick on its polyps, which obviously no PE except night time. Few months later, the majestic died from iches. The SPS PE again but with white polpys. And more importantly they stay white that has already been about a few months.
The polyps are probably just brown. Here is a abrolhosensis.
Sweet!
Seems like it is in brown but cover with white polyps, whereas mine is the other way round.
