Red planet and strawberry shortcake pink

Can you test for iron? If so what would be good levels?
Is far as detectable nitrate mine is steady at 10 I havnt tested for phos in a while I ran out of reagent but my glass has to be cleaned about every 3 days. Macro is nice and dark green.
 
Hockeynut120 said:
Can you test for iron? If so what would be good levels?
Is far as detectable nitrate mine is steady at 10 I havnt tested for phos in a while I ran out of reagent but my glass has to be cleaned about every 3 days. Macro is nice and dark green.
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Ya phos testing is a waste...I agree monitor glass, bump the mag to 1300-1350 and I bet it comes back. Worth a try and you won't hurt anything by increasing mag...
 
Yea I should hit that today been moving mag upward over the last week or so. I'm really a slow mover I don't move any levels to rapidly slo,slo,slo the way to go :)
I just got home and both corals are looking a little better another couple more weeks or a month and I think they will be back to the way they were.
 
Hockeynut120 said:
Yea I should hit that today been moving mag upward over the last week or so. I'm really a slow mover I don't move any levels to rapidly slo,slo,slo the way to go :)
I just got home and both corals are looking a little better another couple more weeks or a month and I think they will be back to the way they were.
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Ya sounds like you got it nice...
 
Wazzel said:
Can I get a pic of the proper color of these? I picked up both local and the RP is green and the SSC is brown. I got a terra del fegueo also, that looks mis-colored. It looks like they just need to get more light, he was running his radions really low on the power (40% on a 24" deep tank)
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Apologies for not providing the images sources...just found these after a quick google search.

Red Planet:
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SSC:
Acropora_microclados-2.jpg


TDF:
acr-64-2.jpg


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FWIW my Red Planet looks 100% like the ORA photo. Red with white growth tips. VERY little green in it at all.
 
Yeah ime iron turns greens greener

I wouldn't stress on adding small amounts of iron then observing and adjusting accordingly

Try fragging a tip off mount and see if it turns green

When I had my large red planet colony going strong it never kept the green on top just underneath

When the frags are small they are really green they loose it later on ime
 
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Change two of your Blue+ with True Actinic and you will get the green that you are looking for.

This is especially true in corals like TDF, Red Planet, Cali Tort and brings out the yellow in my PC superman.

Two other things people mentioned on here that I agree with is to keep it in lower light, keep some phos in the water .0X and dose something like AcroPower
 
kien said:
This is my Red Planet. It started out as a very pink coral with no green as well.

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That's what I'm aiming for, nice piece.
Maybe I would change lighting if other corals weren't doin really well but they are. Also I will be switching to MH in my new 180 upgrade so I don't want to lower any light intensity.
 
I have two red planets in my tank. The one high in the tank is a solid very bright red/pink, with no green.
The second one is on the very bottom of my tank. Deep red with green base and undertones.
One was a frag from the other, so the exact same coral in the exact same tank.

With red planets at least, pretty sure its a light intensity thing.
 
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