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need to bleach my corals
- Thread starter redadeath
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Alex T.
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Actually, everything looks normal to me. There are many corals that "are" and "always will" be brown. Not everything is a bright, colorful stick. Genetics applies in corals as well. This is why so many people chase specific corals from known lineage.
I honestly wouldn't fret over it. Given time (sometimes years) things color up and do nicely if they're able. I actually wouldn't change a thing. I don't see that your rocks are covered in slime or green algae, so maybe tweaking your lighting a bit can help color things up. If you're already measuring pretty low on nitrate and phosphate, it may simply be a lighting issue. Personally, I'd ride it out, keep things stable and see how it goes. Read some more, learn some more...apply what you learn, and by all means go slow.
Reef tanks are like race cars. The faster they go, the harder they crash. Exercise patience. Find a system you like that you can mimic in parameters, husbandry, maintenance, and equipment within your budget and stick with one methodology. I'd also take brown corals over bleached corals any day.
I honestly wouldn't fret over it. Given time (sometimes years) things color up and do nicely if they're able. I actually wouldn't change a thing. I don't see that your rocks are covered in slime or green algae, so maybe tweaking your lighting a bit can help color things up. If you're already measuring pretty low on nitrate and phosphate, it may simply be a lighting issue. Personally, I'd ride it out, keep things stable and see how it goes. Read some more, learn some more...apply what you learn, and by all means go slow.
Reef tanks are like race cars. The faster they go, the harder they crash. Exercise patience. Find a system you like that you can mimic in parameters, husbandry, maintenance, and equipment within your budget and stick with one methodology. I'd also take brown corals over bleached corals any day.
REEF SMAC
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You are right it should be accurate.
Although I guess I've never been smart enough to figure out how to do it correctly.
Would honestly love to know how it is done. Wish you would share with us how you get those accurate readings with a Salifert kit.
All those "zero" Salifert readings I used to get were far from that, when I tried it with a photometer. When I was able to keep low PO4 levels read by a photometer, my acro colors improved a lot.
Yup, what he^^^^ said.
A brown Turbinaria with yellow polyps will always be a brown Turbinaria with yellow polyps.
Tank looks great BTW. Love your fish selection. Looks really clean and healthy.
Alex T.
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Photoperiod duration. Maybe it needs to be upped, or maybe the bulbs are getting old, or maybe you need better reflectors.
Alex T.
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This is not good advice. Dipping SPS corals in fresh water is extremely stressful to the animals, and a sure fire way to lose them.
Redadeath, from your pictures, your corals look fine. Keep things stable and keep on top of regular maintenance and they'll reward you with good growth, and all the color they're capable of providing. You don't appear to have any pests from what I can see.
Guttungen
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redadeath
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i do have metalchrome diy lumenarc reflectors
and photoperiod is 8 hours MH and 4 hours actinic
i have some salt splashes on the bulbs i dont really clean them may be if i cleand them i would have better light
also the bulbs are only 25 cm from the water surface
bulbs are 3 month old
