Gold hammer turned green

ratm909

ratm909

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Hello,

I have been googling like crazy and cant seem to find much information about this issue I am having.

I purchased a gold hammer a few months ago, its doing pretty good. Its extended most of the time, but has not grown much (most of my corals haven't grown much :(. Except my birds-nest that is going wild on growth.

Anyways, when i first put it in my tank, it was bright gold, striking color. But over the last months it has turned electric green! Its still beautiful but I have enough green corals. And I'm a lil afraid my new orange torch could turn also :/

My params:

Cal:420
Alk:7.6-8.6
Mag:1400

0 measurement on ammonia, no2-o3.

Light: ap700 running on 12 hours, starting 1% to 80% at peak (1-5pm) and back down.

Im thinking my water might be too clean? I feed a mix of reef roids/phytoplankton twice a week.

I use chemi-pure elite in a reactor and a skimmer rated for 150 gal (91 gal system)

Any input would be very appreciated

Thanks!
 
That is weird. I have seen gold hammers and frogs turn pink, but not green. Could it be something with your lights? Maybe your tank is missing some minerals that it needs to keep the colors?

I recall using a product a while back called Reef Trace and Reef Plus. It was supposed to have some minerals that these corals needed to stay colored properly. I didn't really had any color issues so I stopped using them, but you may want to give it a try.

Also, there are some products for "Color" that may work. I don't know if they are snake oil or not, but if you find one cheap enough that looks like it could work, I would give it a try.

Good luck!
 
It has to do with light spectrum mineral depletion. So add Reef plus to your dosing schedule and it should help if it is mineral issue. What Kind of lights are you using? If not enough red or purple spectrum any oranges and reds will turn green
 
Gold hammer turned green

I use a kessil ap700. I will try the reef plus, it contains some iodide, which my lfs suggested to me. I will update if any developments come from it

This might sound like a stupid question, but considering i do weekly 10% water changes with reef salt and don't have a ton of corals, where do all the minerals from the salt go??

Thanks
 
Thank you ratm909 for bringing this up- I also recently purchased a gold hammer and like yours it is doing well. I did also notice a very slight greenish tinge on a couple of the smaller "clubs" a week or two ago but didn't think it was an issue and don't currently see it right now. My light is a Current Orbit Marine on a 12g long that has only white and blue LEDs and no red or purple spectrum. I too want my rather pricey hammer to stay the nice golden yellow color and I was unaware that this could happen. Please keep us posted on how your hammer does color-wise with the reef plus.
 
How deep is your tank? 80% color or intensity? 80% intensity is ALOT of light.


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At peak it hits 80% intensity. But it starts low and goes up in increments over a few hours. Its hard to find good info about this light and the settings.

I went to the lfs today and got 3 separate bottles that somewhat equals reef plus. I want to know what's going in the tank so I will trial each separately in this order over the next months see if I notice a difference of any kind.

- Kent iodine
- two little fishes acropower
- kent essential elements

Also, the ap700 will be getting a software update soon and we will be able to fully control spectrum so maybe that will help. Right now i only have a choice of preset colors.

Il update results



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I'm running the AP700 on a 40b and I'm only maxing out at 40%. That puts 120par on my sps that are in the upper 1/3 of the tank. Doesn't sound like a lot but Kessils are notorious for reading low on par meters. Any higher and I burn sps. As it is, any LPS has to be on the outer edges or they shrivel up.

On the floor of the tank, right in between the 2 pucks, par is actually higher than directly right under the pucks. About 140.

I'm running the new software now. It's nice having independent red/green control but I find I don't use it as much.


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Gold hammer turned green

These are the settings im using for my tank. The light is 14" above the water line and the tank in 21" deep.

I dosed iodine today. We shall see if anything happens
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Following. I have noticed the same with my sps and have suspected the led spectrum. Purples and blues slowly fade to a brilliant green.


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I have a gold torch that turned more of a pinkish brown when i put it to close to the light. Funny cuz the gold torch next to it is still gold....
 
imo the more blue LED you can hit gold hammers with the better they keep their color, if you can smash it with some 100% blues and less whites you'll probably start seeing it come back. Some of the gold ones are weird about light but they're all fans of royal blue LED's.

gallegos said:
It has to do with light spectrum mineral depletion.
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I dunno... that sounds like something that should involve the words "and it removes toxins."
 
organism said:
imo the more blue LED you can hit gold hammers with the better they keep their color, if you can smash it with some 100% blues and less whites you'll probably start seeing it come back. Some of the gold ones are weird about light but they're all fans of royal blue LED's.

Well, if that's the case it's great news as my light is at 50% royal blue and 20% white right now and I see no green at all...just beautiful golden yellow :thumbsup:
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I will adjust the colours once the new app comes out. Until then I only have a colour chart.

I saw 0 observable reaction from iodine I supplemented last week. So I added Kent's essential on Sunday.

The corals have undeniably positively reacted since. They are more open. The zoas and acans in particular seem to have liked this.

But the hammer is not more colourful :(. It took some time to go green so I have to be patient!


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I still think it's too much light. Don't be surprised if it starts to retract then eject.

The new app just adds red and green sliders to the wheel. It does nothing for the corals, just allows us to adjust the light to a more pleasing color for us humans to enjoy the colors.


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vhuang168 said:
I still think it's too much light. Don't be surprised if it starts to retract then eject.

The new app just adds red and green sliders to the wheel. It does nothing for the corals, just allows us to adjust the light to a more pleasing color for us humans to enjoy the colors.


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I will look into this during the week end. So would it be better to have lower light but more stable?

For example 0-40% in the first hour, stable all day and back down within the last hour?
 
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