Can't find and answer need help.

[Nathan4Wvu]

Neither my lfs or anyone who I have showed it to has an answer. These plates are not growing well they have crazy polyp extension but the polyps are growing all the way out on the outer edge with no growth ring. The polyps are also spaced really far apart and are abnormally large.

Some mentioned not enough flow so I added a mp40 a week ago yesterday and have seen no difference as of today.

This plate has one area growing and another as described above.

 

[frnkynlop]

what are your water parameters and what type of lighting do you have?

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

LED lighting.
All these frags came from existing halide tanks. Which they looked normal. Also, I have some pieces of them in my frag tank sharing the same water and uses a 250k mh. Same issues.


Water par.
1.025 sg
480 ca
10-11 dkh
8.16 ph
1300 mg
P04
Temp. 78-79


They have also faded. They went from a bright orange to white like orange.

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

Green cap 3 months ago

The orange when it was put in.

Here is the mother of the orange from my moms tank.

 

[frnkynlop]

from what you are describing sounds like it's a lighting issue. usually when corals extends their polyps means they are looking for light. how strong was the lighting on the tank you got the corals from, also how long have you had them?

 

[frnkynlop]

also how high in the tank do you have them?

 

[ct_vol]

I would say it is likely lighting, but may be flow as well... More info needed.

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

The 130 watt leds are around 8 inches off the tank. Also, they came from a tank that has 250watt halides around 8 inches off the tank.

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

For flow I have 2000gph of return pump with a tunze 6010.10. I just added an mp40 a little over a week ago. I have it set on short pulse which is creating a nice wave in the tank.

I would think it was lighting but the same corals in the frag tank are growing the same way and they are under 250watt halides.

 

[BrianN]

I think it very cool since it's unique by its own. How long has it been in your tank?

 

[Acronic]

Wheres all the coraline algae?

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

In the pics at the bottom, the tank was pretty new and the most of the rock was BRS base rock. It was put in the tank as dead and has since been growing coraline. I will snap some pics asap.

 

[Acronic]

IMO if it isnt growing on the glass there is an issue with alk and cal maybe mag

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

It is. It's growing on the glass and over flow boxes.

 

[Acronic]

are there any other sps in the tank? could we see some?

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii209/nathan4wvu/VIDEO0111.mp4

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

 

[Met3112]

Looks to be a new tank, how long has it been set up?

Are your calcium and alk levels stable or are they fluctuating throughout the week? What do you dose in the tank, how often, how much?

Do you have any fish? If that were my tank I'd feed it well, the corals look hungry imo, but its hard to tell from a picture.

What kind of LEDs?

 

[Acronic]

My vote is lighting issue and still maybe an imbalance of alk and cal. The zenia is stretching sooo far as well as most polyps and the corals are full of brown zoox. Tell us more about the lighting, photo period type ect

 

[Nathan4Wvu]

It has been setup since the beginning of march. My calc and alk are staying 450-460 and 10-11 Dkh through out the week. No more no less. The ph stays a 8.14 8.19 always. Since my coral load is small I'm able to maintain with kalk from a topoff reactor.

As for fish I have
1 small six line
1 small chromis
1 yellow watchman goby
1 small fox face (added just today)
1 lawnmower blenny
15-20 snails and crabs
1 turbo sail.
1 sea cucumber

120 gallon display + 40 gallon frag tank + 29 gallon fuge.

The fuge is filled to the top with macro algae. Skimmer is undersized, it's a reef octopus 180.

I took the 250 watt off the frag tank and switched it with one of the lec pendants.... We shall see what happens