When I was on vacation a couple weeks ago we had a storm blow through that knocked power out for a little while.
When my office manager came in the next morning she texted me and said the lights looked funny. The tank looked fine, but the outage had caused the lights to lose their custom schedule and they reverted back to some other factory setting.
No problem, there's a option on the remote for "Sunny" which is what she pushed. Lights came on nice and bright. That program runs both channels at 100%. Problem solved until I could come home and reset everything.
Well, that was on like day 3 of me being gone 10 days. What I told her to do was turn them off every night before she left. That would have given about an 8 hour period of light, which should have been plenty.
However, what she actually did was just turn them on and leave them on. 100% on both channels 24hrs a day for about 7 days.
The one piece of SPS, a pavona that seems to be bullet proof, isn't looking so hot. It used to be a nice bright green. Now it looks very pale and I noticed this morning that a couple of the branches have some algae growing on them.
I'm assuming those branches are toast. Should I frag the rest of what looks to be viable and move it to a lower part of the tank? Or is there something else I should do.
I'm going to take a water sample to Corals N More this afternoon to see if anything else is off. It very well could be a combination of things.
When my office manager came in the next morning she texted me and said the lights looked funny. The tank looked fine, but the outage had caused the lights to lose their custom schedule and they reverted back to some other factory setting.
No problem, there's a option on the remote for "Sunny" which is what she pushed. Lights came on nice and bright. That program runs both channels at 100%. Problem solved until I could come home and reset everything.
Well, that was on like day 3 of me being gone 10 days. What I told her to do was turn them off every night before she left. That would have given about an 8 hour period of light, which should have been plenty.
However, what she actually did was just turn them on and leave them on. 100% on both channels 24hrs a day for about 7 days.
The one piece of SPS, a pavona that seems to be bullet proof, isn't looking so hot. It used to be a nice bright green. Now it looks very pale and I noticed this morning that a couple of the branches have some algae growing on them.
I'm assuming those branches are toast. Should I frag the rest of what looks to be viable and move it to a lower part of the tank? Or is there something else I should do.
I'm going to take a water sample to Corals N More this afternoon to see if anything else is off. It very well could be a combination of things.
