Red planet coloration

[reefsic]

Pic quality isn't the greatest, but you can see the contrast in colors from Deep Red to Dark Green. The placement is center tank, center height under 7x54w T5's and lotsa' flow!

 

[tate1]

Thanks for starting this thread. Now I understand what is going on with my RP.

 

[sjfishguy]

My small RP frag was all red/pink up high. When I dropped it halfway down in the tank it gained back its green base and looks identical to reefsic's pic. This is definitely a medium light coral for best colors

 

[jsousa]

How are you guys getting such great polyp extension with this coral? Mine is growing, actually encrusting right now at a pretty good clip, but I cannot get the polyps to extend. Any suggestions?

 

[reefsic]

How are you guys getting such great polyp extension with this coral? Mine is growing, actually encrusting right now at a pretty good clip, but I cannot get the polyps to extend. Any suggestions?

Im currently using the ULNS Method with full blown Zeovit. I have friends that have Red Planets in a non ULNS system and use a Sump/Fuge, and the results are similar when it comes to color, growth and PE.

Make sure your lighting is sufficient (PAR & color spectrum), placement, and flow. Like all SPS, these guys need a lot of Calcium for consistent growth.

GL!

 

[nivenethan]

I have a ORA Red Planet that is also fairly pink. New growth is nearly white and old growth at the base has some light green tint to it. It is located about 12" down in tank under AI LED's that are above the water about 12".

It has double in size (2" to 4" in about 30 days), but is not coloring up well.

Tank is 8 feet long and running 8 AquaIllumination LED modules w/ white at 80% and blue at 100% intensity.

I figure I can either:
1. Move ORA RP down.
2. Move lights up (but other corals seem to like intensity)
3. Turn down the white intensity on LED's (but other corals seem to like the intensity....maybe a little less wouldn't hurt them though???)

What do you guys think?

Regards,

 

[tmgrash]

I have a ORA Red Planet that is also fairly pink. New growth is nearly white and old growth at the base has some light green tint to it. It is located about 12" down in tank under AI LED's that are above the water about 12".

It has double in size (2" to 4" in about 30 days), but is not coloring up well.

Tank is 8 feet long and running 8 AquaIllumination LED modules w/ white at 80% and blue at 100% intensity.

I figure I can either:
1. Move ORA RP down.
2. Move lights up (but other corals seem to like intensity)
3. Turn down the white intensity on LED's (but other corals seem to like the intensity....maybe a little less wouldn't hurt them though???)

What do you guys think?

Regards,

I would lower your rp if I were you. I run 6 ai units on my 240 and have the rp about 2" off the sand bed and the ai units 6" above the water, this puts the rp about 30" from the light. It is coloring up nice with both the red and the green colors. You have to be careful with the ai units they are par monsters, way more than even 400w mh.

 

[aquariumclown]

Leo-
i want to see your "dipped in latex paint" RP pic

hows the green on yours Leo? its pretty high up if i remember correctly...

Here's my RP when I first got it. It had lost a lot of color from the previous owner, but had a bit a green base...

Here's what it looks like after a couple of months in my tank. You can't see the base in the picture but it's still green. Actually you can see a little green on the upper right hand corner. I'm sure you'd see more green if the polyps didn't get in the way

Right now it's much bigger than the last picture but same color. It sits about 7 inches from the water surface.

 

[boodlefish]

Leo~ that's the pic i was thinking of. what kind of lighting do you have over that?

 

[Monkeyfish]

My RP is in the top third of the tank (75g) underneath six 54w T5s. The lights are about 5 inches above the water. The coral base is green, the tips are pink and in between is red with some green. Not sure how much of the coral's appearence is it's actual color and how much is the lighting (3 Aquablue +, 1 actinic white, 1 6500K and 1 Aquablue special.)

 

[nivenethan]

I would lower your rp if I were you. I run 6 ai units on my 240 and have the rp about 2" off the sand bed and the ai units 6" above the water, this puts the rp about 30" from the light. It is coloring up nice with both the red and the green colors. You have to be careful with the ai units they are par monsters, way more than even 400w mh.

What are you running for lighting intensities on your AI LED's...white and blue?

 

[jsousa]

I use Prodibio in conjunction with ZeoVit supplements. Tank is doing great. Most corals extend. Its just 2 that don't - both ORA - the Pink Lemonade and the Red Planet. Both are encrusting fast but both barely extend their polyps.

As far parameters go:
ph 8.0-8.2
Alk 7.5
Ca 380
Mg 1400
NO3 <1
PO4 .04

I alternate dosing Coral Vit, AAs and B-Balance one day with Pohl's Xtra and Potassium Iodide the next, all throughout the week.

For lighting, I use 2 Lumenarc Minis with 20K 250w Radiums and 2 80W T5 Actinic+'s.

I also use 2 MP40w's for flow.

I feed Mysis twice a day to the fish and 4 times a week I feed OysterFeast or Rotifeast for the corals. Once a week, I target feed the LPS. Usually before my 10% weekly water change.

Not sure if I'm missing something here with these particular corals. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I love what you guys have done with these corals here on this thread. Great job.

Im currently using the ULNS Method with full blown Zeovit. I have friends that have Red Planets in a non ULNS system and use a Sump/Fuge, and the results are similar when it comes to color, growth and PE.

Make sure your lighting is sufficient (PAR & color spectrum), placement, and flow. Like all SPS, these guys need a lot of Calcium for consistent growth.

GL!

 

[aquariumclown]

Leo~ that's the pic i was thinking of. what kind of lighting do you have over that?

I run 250w radiums w/ t5 supplements.

 

[buy_baff]

Under 250w Phoenix 14K MH's.

Just to let you know those blue stripe mushrooms are sps killers.