Is my water too clean?

[dunk373]

I have about 300g total capacity. I'm running a weak skimmer Coralife 220, run carbon, Gfo, a 75g fuge, an algae scrubber once a month water changes. Tested water. My corals seem to be browning or losing color.

Nitrates 0 salifert
Phosphate 0 Hanna
Calc425
Alk 8.9
Magnesium 1300

 

[muteturkey]

What is the dimensions of tank, lighting, types of corals, and how long has it been set up post cycle?

 

[bskiba]

browning would mean that the water is not. most likely. do you have a sand bed? how much do you feed? are there other typs of coral that could be stressing the SPS?

 

[dunk373]

the tank has been up for 8 years it started softies with little maint. then lps now sps I'll try and get pics up. tanks 4'x2' 150 dsb and lights are 8 110w vho 6 super actinic and 2 act white with 33 rb leds the tank has been fine until i added the basement setup. I have mostly sps and a lot of them.

 

[dunk373]

this is a pic of one of the coral tanks

this is a bird of paradise the color isn't there

heres a coral just like most the polyps are out nicely just not very vivid colors

 

[dunk373]

strawberry shortcake that looks ok but not like it did

red planet growing fast just colors faded

tricolor valida now this is a frag that seems to be getting better, the mother colony seems to like less lighting to color, the mother colony is upstairs with the vho this is under the t5"s led

 

[Keithcorals]

My red planet looked like that until I started feeding more.
Your corals looks happy and healthy. So a little more nutrients just might do the trick

 

[Keithcorals]

How much and how often do you feed?

 

[dunk373]

they do look healthy right? i mean the polyps are out i am feeding more now i was feeding about 2 times at night now about avery other night

 

[oneradtek202]

hereas another thing ill add, mine looked like that when i was running too much gfo and carbon. if you are, try cutting it back by half and feeding more. wait a month and see

 

[dunk373]

ok thanks try to make a long story short, I added two coral tanks to the system and a sump so I added 125g of fresh new water. the original setup had about 175g a guestimate with lr and sand. the coral tanks and sump cycled grew algae and there was a fishy smell in the sump I threw in 6 cups of rox carbon, I know it was too much. and the smell went away this was a few months ago i moved all the frags and some colonies to the frag tanks under different lights and added an algae scrubber and here I am now with faded colors and some brown colonies in my dt It seems green is being effected the most. I have removed the carbon replaced gfo with half the dose added some trace and iodine put another hour on my white bulbs upstairs. and i am feeding fish and corals more I hope it clears up and looks the way it did I need to give it time. I also did a 50g water change