Purple Stylophora turning white

[malx]

I have this Stylephora that has good polyp extension but it's starting to turn white at the tips and at the base. Could my lights be up too high? I'm running Zeo Vit. I also feed it 2x Weekely BRS Reef Chili. Water parameters will be tested tomorrow but last week they were great with only 1 nitrate and 0.02 phosphate. It first started at the base a few weeks ago.

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[glaukos]

Is it white as we say dead white or just pale?
Really can't tell from the pics malx.
If it's just pale and it's a recent addition,maybe it's adjusting to the zeo enviroment.
When i tried the zeovit way,had that happen to some of pocci's,stylo's and even monti's.
Just fed a bit more and they darkened after a couple of weeks.
Just my exp,not what is wrong 100% or you should do in your case too:beer:

What about flow?Light fixture height?
If it's not too much of a trouble,pleass add an fts so we can have a general view.

 

[malx]

Is it white as we say dead white or just pale?
Really can't tell from the pics malx.
If it's just pale and it's a recent addition,maybe it's adjusting to the zeo enviroment.
When i tried the zeovit way,had that happen to some of pocci's,stylo's and even monti's.
Just fed a bit more and they darkened after a couple of weeks.
Just my exp,not what is wrong 100% or you should do in your case too:beer:

What about flow?Light fixture height?
If it's not too much of a trouble,pleass add an fts so we can have a general view.

It's just pale.

For flow I have two MP40s turned up to 25% in RC mode. My tank is only 55g. 36 wide by 20 deep so any more flow, say bye bye sand bed.

For light I have two Kessil A360 Tuna Blues with wide angle 7-8" off the water line in a 20" deep tank. Max they are 35% at 70% white. I think they maybe were too high up. I put in a bunch of new SPS coral today so I'm gunna leave it at 35 % for two days, then go 40% for two, then increase 5% every two days until I reach 60% unless you have a different suggestion.

It's not white everywhere in random spots and mostly the base. Today, I cut it off it's base and the larger pale part and glued it to a rock.


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[malx]

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[malx]

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Anyone wanna chip In any further here? Still having this issue. Feedings made no change in color. Now it's struggling to show its polyps. I think it's on the brink of being a goner.


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[malx]

Anyone wanna chip In any further here? Still having this issue. Feedings made no change in color. Now it's struggling to show its polyps. I think it's on the brink of being a goner.


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Here's a pic. Turning more white.

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[nmotz]

I'm thinking maybe just bleaching due to a light acclimation problem? I think you need to bring up your lights a lot slower. I've tried to boost my LEDs 5% at a time and it usually causes problems. Bringing up LEDs takes a loooooooong time. Like 1%/week at most. This is especially true if your corals came from a T5 tank. Whenever I buy SPS that were kept under T5s, they do worse. If they were kept under LEDs/MHs, they usually do better under my LEDs from the start.

Feed heavy and keep the lights turned low until you see improvement. Then bump them no more than 1%/week until you get to your desired level. It'll take forever, but that's the LED curse. LED's have other advantages, but getting intensity right is pretty tough IME.

 

[Scorpius]

I had the hardest time with Stylophora. Every time they would bleach out and die on me. I even tried indirect lighting. I waited forever to try one again and now I have no issues. Never did figure out what i did wrong.

 

[malx]

I had the hardest time with Stylophora. Every time they would bleach out and die on me. I even tried indirect lighting. I waited forever to try one again and now I have no issues. Never did figure out what i did wrong.

Odd tip. I just got some new T5 lights I'm going to put on the tank this week. I wonder what kind of difference that will make. I like you can't seem to figure it out but I got
Some solid advice from everyone here I'm gunna take


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[Mr.Fishtank]

I would invest in a par meter. In my last tank I had my purple stylo under radion g3 pro's getting 160-180 par at the coral. I now run a ati t5 fixture and put it under the same par as the radions. Then increased it over the last 7 months. It is now at 350 par and doing very well.