Coral growth

[Mr. Fish]

Am I getting good growth from my corals? I have been keeping corals less than a year and don't know what's normal. Also why has my green bird nest turned white?


Green Birdnest

November 27 2010

December 18 2010

December 31 2010

January 13 2011

February 5 2011

May 9 2011

Blue Stag

January 9 2011

February 6 2011

March 19 2011

May 9 2011

 

[Mr. Fish]

Pink Birdnest

March 7 2011

May 9 2011

Pink cat paws

December 31, 2011

May 9 2011

Red sea pulsing xenia

December 18 2011

May 9 2011

 

[tkeracer619]

Looks good to me.

What lighting do you use? How old are the bulbs? SG, Mg, dkh, ca, nitrates, phosphates? Flow?

 

[AquaReeferMan]

Nice growth IMO. The bleaching has me puzzled though. Waiting on the answers to tkeracer619s questions...

 

[Mr. Fish]

I am using an odysea 48" 4 54 watt ho t5 light fixture with 5 month old ati bulbs. Phosphates 0, nitrates 0, calcium 500, ph is 7.9, dkh 7.5, sg is 1.025 and temp is 79.5. I don't have a mg test kit. My tank is a standard 55 gallon I have one evo 1,050 gph for flow I have a psk 100 h protein skimmer and I run rox carbon and gfo in a brs reactor.

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[mightymizz]

Interesting. Looks like good growth to me as well. It might be coincidence of when you took the picture, but the most recent blue stag pic. doesn't seem to have much PE. Wondering if something is amiss somewhere with water params, or alk swings, or whatnot?

 

[Mr. Fish]

Interesting. Looks like good growth to me as well. It might be coincidence of when you took the picture, but the most recent blue stag pic. doesn't seem to have much PE. Wondering if something is amiss somewhere with water params, or alk swings, or whatnot?

My flame hawk is treating the blue stag like his own personal amusement park, he keeps on perching all over in it, that's what's stopping the polyp extension. The odd thing is that the blue stag has grown the most after I got the hawk.

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[schoch79]

IMO that is pretty good growth. Most impressive to me is that you have only been keeping corals for about a year now and you get all that growth. Apparently you are doing something right. Some/alot of people don't dive into sps for a while and still have a hard time with it. You have obviously started out right and keep good maintenance schedules on your tank to be doing as well as you are with the sps.