pink setosa

[Mangodude]

here's a pic of mine from today, when i got it, it was orange lol

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I'm pretty sure being moved from t5s to leds did this but i wanna know if it will stay this color?

oh and the color is incredibely accurate in this picture and no alterations were made. Taken under chinese 120w led panels (6:4 blue to white)

These two stay at the bottom 4 inches of my tank so I figure they are about 2ft under the led

 

[Mangodude]

pic when i got it..

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[t4zalews]

It looks like its dying...this coral should keep a orange/bright red color.

I would say it was not acclimated to the LED lighting like it should have..its probably getting baked with light and slowly bleaching. I would recommend putting it in a shady spot until some of the color grows back.

 

[afernandez]

Well it's not looking good...Your either killing it b/c it does not get enough nutrients or blasted with light or a combination .

 

[Mangodude]

hmm ok thanks.
I'm pretty sure its not too much light.. the day light part is for only 3 hours a day, the rest is actinic only. and theyre 2ft under the leds, no lenses. But i'll give it a shot..

By nutritionly starved, you mean my water's too clean or like i'm not dosing enough ca/alk?

 

[M007]

Too much light. Tone it down or move it, should be orange. :uhoh3:

 

[t4zalews]

hmm ok thanks.
I'm pretty sure its not too much light.. the day light part is for only 3 hours a day, the rest is actinic only. and theyre 2ft under the leds, no lenses. But i'll give it a shot..

By nutritionly starved, you mean my water's too clean or like i'm not dosing enough ca/alk?

Water too clean, but the way the coral looks, it looks like too much lighting is the cause, hence the bleached look

 

[Mangodude]

alright i'll try to shade it some

calcium checked out at 400 on elos kit
still checking everything else..

nitrates are 0 on an Api kit

the fish are all pretty fat (fed once to twice a day formula two small pellets).. should i start feeding coral food?

 

[REEF SMAC]

It doesn't look too happy for some reason. I see no PE at all.

Hard to believe your water is somehow "too clean" with that brown looking acro right behind that pink setosa. Or living with that gorgonian in the other pic.

I would think that if it was bleaching it would be bleached on top and the bottom would be a different color. It looks the same pink all the way through.

I'm guessing some water parameter?
What's your alk?
What's the flow?
Maybe even not enough light?
Maybe a longer photoperiod of some more indirect, not so intense light.

 

[Mangodude]

Alk, i got no way of testing (borrowing a kit from a friend soon, i'm just doing the daily two part reccomended)
flow is pretty high where its at, good enough that the red planet is happy..
could be not enough light, that was my first guess but the color seems so bleached that it seemed hard to believe.

I just repositioned two lights and will continue the same photoperiod for now. The light will now be directed away from it but due to nooptics i'm sure some light will cary over..

as to lack of nutrients. I have no idea honestly. I've got a pretty big refugium (half of a 75g tank) and a euroreef 180 skimmer that pulls some nasty stuff. my bioload isn't that high but i really don't think my water is that prestine..

 

[Jmason95]

Mine's the same color. Bought it dark orange/red and now it's like a light pinkish color. I have mine a good 20" from the top of the water level under 250w Radiums and VHO's.

This is the 3rd tank I've had a setosa in and they all have turned this color on me.

 

[Keithcorals]

They turn pink under high light I've done this to mine. It was that color and after moving it to lower light it went back to orange. I also have some frags in my sps frag tank and some frags from the same mother colony in my zoa/lps frag tank. The two tanks have the share a sump so same water and both have same brand T5s and blue LEDs but the sps tank has two to three time the light (more light much closer to water) the frags in the sps tank are allmost pink and the other are very orange.

 

[Keithcorals]

Also get the same result with low nutriants but this case seems to be too much light.

 

[Mangodude]

hmm well thats encouraging!

It'd be nice if it stays this color and stays healthy. it looks amzing under the leds!

 

[JSeymour]

It could be from too much light or too few nutrients, as long as the light color is remaining stable and not turning pure white, it's ok. My guess is that it's too much light. Setosa likes thing a little shadier than most SPS. If you keep it where it is and it's from too much light, you'll notice it will grown down rather than up. Personally, I'd just move it to a lower light level so it looks better and grows faster. Also, don't give it a 'high flow' area, find a more 'moderate' area. That way it will branch and plate instead of mounding and encrusting.