Pale brown corals!!!

Pale brown corals!!!

I have the same problem, I was also stuck in that notion of chasing numbers. I run a BB tank and zeo at just under 2/3rd strength. Po4 just came back at 0.00 twice and my corals seem washed out. I left for a trip to bali not long ago and the person looking after was asked to feed fish every 2nd day (frozen mix, pellets, flake, nori.) They ended up feeding that every day and when I came back my corals were glowing! I'm now adding pappone at night, and even considering adding sand :-|
 
is it possible my lights are not on long enough?

My blue+ come on around 2:45pm
My coral+ come on at 4pm
Coral plus off at 7pm
Blue+ off at 8pm

im getting good growth just not good colors like when I added them all
 
today I changed all my bulbs everything stayed the same other than I switched purple plus out for a fiji purple. The old bulbs were slightly over a year old.

Also turned off GFO
 
i think that is a rather short photo period. It wouldn't hurt to make it longer. I am a fan of a minimum of 6-8 hours on full light all day. Actinics are upr to you but I run mine 12 hours. Beside the more your lights are on the more you get to enjoy your tank
 
I'm really glad I came across this thread. I have had the same situation with my 90 which is 1.5 years old. I have been keeping it bare bottom, running GFO, in pristine condition and thus apparently starving my SPS and some LPS. Over the last month I began supplementing Acropower and feeding my fish heavier. I have one rather plain birdsnest that seems to be coming back to life with overall growth and a tiny bit of color. I recently had my iodine and strontium tested and found out that they were extremely low. I guess clean doesn't always mean good?
 
degibson84 said:
today I changed all my bulbs everything stayed the same other than I switched purple plus out for a fiji purple. The old bulbs were slightly over a year old.
Also turned off GFO
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That is Def not reccomended and it most likely will start bleaching the corals. Your corals are. Used to that amount of light and swapping all your bulbs out at the same time is asking for trouble. It's best to change bulbs slowly Over the course of a few weeks so you don't light shock the corals and bring on another issue. There is plenty of methods to do it.. I would if you haven't at least raise the fixture up and slowly bring it down or add some screen or something to let the corals acclimate over time.

I agree that you should Def start feeding the tank more and possibly add some more fish. I wouldn't do anything drastic like swapping all the bulbs, removing all gfo etc. Take it slow and watch the tank but registering some n03 and p04 will have a positive effect on your coloration.
 
I have changed all bulbs at once with no bad effects to corals, it can **** them off if the bulbs were really old but might be fine, just watch them closley. Alo the screen idea is good for a few days just in case. Keeping an eye on them for the next couple days would be a good thing.
Again your photo period is really short. I would bump it up to at least 5 or 6 daylight and at least 8 or more actintic. But wait til your corals aclimate to the new bulbs. Plus feeding more may help if things are starving, go luck!
 
Dapg8gt said:
That is Def not reccomended and it most likely will start bleaching the corals. Your corals are. Used to that amount of light and swapping all your bulbs out at the same time is asking for trouble. It's best to change bulbs slowly Over the course of a few weeks so you don't light shock the corals and bring on another issue. There is plenty of methods to do it.. I would if you haven't at least raise the fixture up and slowly bring it down or add some screen or something to let the corals acclimate over time.

I agree that you should Def start feeding the tank more and possibly add some more fish. I wouldn't do anything drastic like swapping all the bulbs, removing all gfo etc. Take it slow and watch the tank but registering some n03 and p04 will have a positive effect on your coloration.
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I had more fish but somewhere ich got introduced and wiped out a few of them. They all had it but the ones left were the strong and survived. I don't want to add anything else and have the ich pop back up since it is already in the DT.
 
So after 2 weeks without running GFO and feeding more I have noticed no changes in color. Just more algae growing on scrubber screen and on my wp40 and wp25.


Po4 still test out at 0.00
 
I thought you aren't supposed to be running gfo and an algea scrubber. It's just going to cancel the scrubber out. How long is your scrubber running the light for?
 
If it comes to it, you can also reduce scrubber photoperiod. I found in my past experiences that you certainly can overdo it with these, much like anything else.
 
But I would like for it to try and take away the hair algae growing on my power heads. This was my main reason for setting this system up with a scrubber. I didn't want to get the nuisance algae, yet I still did
 
degibson84 said:
But I would like for it to try and take away the hair algae growing on my power heads. This was my main reason for setting this system up with a scrubber. I didn't want to get the nuisance algae, yet I still did
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It's funny that you say that about the Wp's. Are they the only ones growing it quickly? When I had the 25 in my tank it was covered in hair algae while the rest of my tank is algae free. I wonder if it's the plastic they use is leaching causing the algae. I have 4 vortech pumps without any algae but the Jebao would be covered.

Maybe it's the same phenomenon as eggcrate goes thru and needs to leach it out until it stops growing.. I think I'm going to ask in a thread in the equipment forum to see if I'm just imagining this =)

And I would think you need to run both until the scrubber can keep up if it's properly sized. If it's not you may still have to run a reduced amount of gfo. If it's not keeping it in check by itself it's best to keep the gfo on based on p04 levels and overall tank health and growth.
 
Not sure where to turn.

GFO has been out for almost a month. Upped my feedings po4 still reading 0.00 using hanna checker.

Sps corals still growing but colors are t there.

Should I cave and try acropower
 
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