id please

[jbomar3771]

The first picture was a couple of months ago when I got it. The other picture is now. Need id and help with why it has lost a lot of color

 

[plyle02]

Looks like a Cali Tort to me, and I agree it does look washed out, perhaps nutrients a bit too low, need more info on the system, how many fish, how often fed, nutrient export, dosing, etc...

 

[jbomar3771]

It a 72 gallon
Nitrate and phosphate not detected with salifert on the nitrate and hanna checker on the phosphate
Calcium 470
Alk 9.8 dkh
Ph 8.2
Temp 79
Mag 1350I run a carbon reactor and a phosphate reactor. Turned the phosphate reactor off a week ago.
I run a skimmer and have macro algae in the sump
Probably 100+ lbs of live rock. The tank has been set up for 3 years but moved it about 6 months ago and added 2" sand bed at that time. I recently added more sps frags so it hasn't had time to check color on them yet but all seems to be doing good. I run 2 ai sol blues and just ordered another one. I run kalkwasser with my ato.

 

[jbomar3771]

Salifert on the nitrate and phosphate. Hanna on the alk. Sorry

 

[jbomar3771]

Fish
Blue regal tang (small)
Yellow tang
2 ocilerous clowns
Spotted mandarin golby
I feed flakes once a day and small piece of tanera once a day

 

[plyle02]

typically the higher the nutrients the darker the coral appears. So given that it is light in color, I would bump to 3 times per day of feeding the fish, and wait and see if you get nitrates to 2-5ppm on Salifert. Try and hold that number and you should see the corals darken up and show color represented in it's lineage. Good luck

 

[jbomar3771]

Should i keep the gfo offline?

 

[jbomar3771]

Also should i turn off my skimmer

 

[jbomar3771]

?????

 

[Pife]

Read and make your own decisions. There are thousands of threads discussing these topics.


That being said just feed more.

 

[jbomar3771]

How long does it take for the nitrates to come up? I've been feeding them like crazy for 3 days and added a flame angel and still 0 on both phosphates and nitrates.

 

[Pife]

I would go slow so it doesn't spike on you. That flame Angel on the other hand might pick at your sps.