Llamaslayer
New member
i'm having a bit of trouble with my SPS. I have a birdsnest and stylo that arent as colorful as i'd wish. the stylo is getting excellent polyp extension and getting its green skeleton back but the holes where the polyps come out of are all brown (imagine little brown rings). i cant see any pests on the two.
the birdsnest initially had some bleaching on the side that my PAR38 hit it and a lost a good deal of polyp extension on that side. the other side is looking great in terms of polyp extension but holistically its all pretty brown with slightly blue polyps.
tank stats
8.5g lit by a PAR38 ~14" from waters surface
temp - 79-80*F
salinity - 33-35ppt (no ato yet but its coming in a few days)
pH - 8.0-8.1
ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - <5ppm
phosphate - should be extremely low, no algae problems and im running a gfo reactor and CPE (test kit comes when the ATO comes)
all im dosing is 2.8mL of kent pro dKH a day to keep my pH past 7.8 and reef accelerator once a week
the birdsnest initially had some bleaching on the side that my PAR38 hit it and a lost a good deal of polyp extension on that side. the other side is looking great in terms of polyp extension but holistically its all pretty brown with slightly blue polyps.
tank stats
8.5g lit by a PAR38 ~14" from waters surface
temp - 79-80*F
salinity - 33-35ppt (no ato yet but its coming in a few days)
pH - 8.0-8.1
ammonia - 0
nitrite - 0
nitrate - <5ppm
phosphate - should be extremely low, no algae problems and im running a gfo reactor and CPE (test kit comes when the ATO comes)
all im dosing is 2.8mL of kent pro dKH a day to keep my pH past 7.8 and reef accelerator once a week
