Wow, what a response and thanks for the comments,
Originally Posted by stancfii,
Instead of going back to MH, can you supplement with a couple T5s?
I have a couple of T5s still sitting in the shed so I might place 2 back on one side of the tank along with the led's and see if that makes a difference to the corals on that side of the tank for comparison.
Originally Posted by JP SPS,
Are you running GFO, Carbon, or Biopellets?
I run Rowaphos in a reactor which I turned off a week ago, I tested for Po4 yesterday and it still reads 0 with hanna so this tells me the P04 is being used up, though will test again in a few days.
Originally Posted by rsaha,
Do the frags you give away exhibit better colour in their new homes?
I don't know I have never seen them, I have given some to lfs to pass onto club members when they come in. I do know club members have told me they are doing fine and look great , at the next meeting I will ask about color.
Originally Posted by Bo0sted_Rafi,
IMO your tank looks great. I have leds and i notice great and brilliant colors but i think the problem can be the spectrum you have in your fixture and too much hours with white lights on. I just give 4 hours of full lights in 9 hours total. 2 hours of full blue and 3 hours of blue with the white at lowest % to mix it with the blues and they looks like 420 in t5. I think, The colors depends in the blue lights. try that
I always thought I needed more white light so I had my white on for 3 hrs then both blue/white for 5 hrs and then blue for 1 hr. I have now changed to your suggestion. I'm going to place two T5s on one side, what would your suggestion be for lighting times using these also.
Originally Posted by Epicreefer,
If your lights are 50/50 b/w then you could just be hittingn them with too much white. I work on a very large tank with 10k and 454 cannon LEDs and when I take a picture it looks very blue. In person it's about 14k. Many of the sps are showing good color similar to yours, a bit brighter, but not all are amazing, green digi is very green like your green stag. Other sps are a little harder. I found by reducing the white colors improved a bit. I would add maybe a blue+ t5 and the 3-4-2 hour dawn dusk effect with less white hours, maybe expand that to 3-5-3. I got great results with oyster feast too but don't currently use it, maybe you can find another pulverized bivalve product like it in Australia or an artificial like reef roids. Also I found the liquid supplements like amino acids when over dosed browned corals. They work well in the ulns they are designed on where most corals would bleach and die to bring the color back. A side note, it can take 6 months to a year for zeovit to stabilize on an existing mature reef and bring the colors out. The older the system with more nuteients in the sand and rock the longer. And if you keep feeding heavily it can extend it. I've always had best results with small feedings of fish and coral food every other day for fish 1-2x a week for coral, small water changes every two weeks and no supplements, just gfo carbon and a skimmer. Your tank looks very good btw, just needs a bit of tweaking to get good colors and this is often what takes the most trial and error and time. I would reduce white LEDs first, then cut phols extra and see what happens over the next few weeks or two months.
Going to try more blue and supplement with a couple of blue T5s.
I have tried the red sea program for a few months and to be honest I never noticed any difference for the cost. I do feed reef-roids twice a week, I also use red sea reef energy A/B twice a week because I have some left.
I will try more smaller feeding often rather than heavily once a day.
I have never used Zeo products, I don't think I have even seen them in our lfs. The majority of comments tend to be towards my lighting so I will try all above suggestions first (though slowly) before I will use any more supplements.
Thanks again John
