no PE on cali tort and Miami orchid

[StrategicReef]

I have kept these 2 before and I had polyps out day and night. Recently got them as single branch frags again. it might have been adapted to the previous tank too well and not to mine. It is growing and only responds by having some short filaments at some coralites when there is food in the water. I have been looking at night, PE not much better.

no nipper fishes or pests that I know of. It does appear to be slowly growing over the glue.

The cali tort is looking "rough" and drab color, maybe experiencing mild bleaching. Maybe it is too much flow? I don't want to stress it anymore by moving in the wrong direction
The orchid has nice purple base and lavender tip, no brown color.

I have 30 other frags and they have PE. Is PE necessary an indicator for health.
Are the short filaments still feeding the coral? It maybe one of those mysteries but thought I would ask anyway. In my previous tank I bought them as ORA thru liveaquaria and they grew like a weed and I had more nutrients.


light dose of VSV and MB7
(sea chem salt)
CA 525
ALK 8
Mg ~1300
phosphate - don't know/don't have hanna
nitrate 2-3

 

[beeker]

Don't need PE for corals to grow, i have plenty that have little to non but grow fast, i have some that are furry as can be and grow just the same, to me PE is all for your own personal visual appeal it doesen't affect health, when corals start to receed is when you need to be worried

my miami orchid has almost no PE either, but is nice deep purple, it has very small polyps, i can see them but no where near like my other sps are, growth and color has been great on it so far though

i do vodka dose and amino dose, but i only do 2 drops a week of both to my tank, i've had issue's with longterm daily dosing Vodka so if you ever feel like your system has become saturated by it's use or corals start to react poorly then i might suggest going with a 2-3 day a week dose every other day or so

you can always feed more when doing Vodka dosing, i feed a decent amount in my BC29g and have always had great color, i do the Vodka dose for growth mainly and have definatly gotten proven results from most of my sps with Vodka though when i did it everyday i got good results up to a point and then started having issue's thats the main reason i only slightly dose now