SPS color changed in one month @o@

[philipchan]

About a month ago, this Acro. ( I believe it is)
It was kind of white color with some lavender color tips on it.
I didnt really notice the color changes a lot until yesterday when I took the pic of it again. the white color turns into some kind of Auqa color, and the light Lavender tip turns into darker Lavender, hope u enjoy
August 12~:bounce1:

Sep 12~

 

[fijiblue]

Very nice - what kind of lights do you run?

 

[philipchan]

Thanks!
I'm running 150W 20K MH with a Blue LED strip
about 10 hrs per day

 

[philipchan]

Thanks!
I'm running 150W 20K MH with a Blue LED strip
about 10 hrs per day

 

[murphreef]

lokn good now send it over here and i will see if i can get u a different color

 

[fcmatt]

it looks like a bleached coral finally came back to its normal healthy self.
i always question when I see white corals for sale.. if they are bleached badly
or if they are normally that color.

good job. much better looking now!

 

[john90009]

thats what we call keeping the parameters rock steady. very sick.

 

[90ct]

Nice acro. Very good job....... Some of mine still waiting to colors up.

 

[philipchan]

Thanks guys...!! So kind of u,~:bounce3:
LOL....when I bought this SPS, I didnt know it kind of bleach out, I thought that's the original color, haha

I'm trying so hard to keep the sps now,
coz my tank is only 18G and I have really heavy load on corals, LPS and SPS
my KH sometimes drop over 1 point per day, CA will drop from 460 to 420~430 in a day =_=
plus i'm short of budget, hand dosing every single day, adding lotzzzz of different kinds of supplements to try to make the system stable, and water changes every week.
does anyone know where can I get the cheapest auto doser? or any DIY ones?
Thanksss!~

 

[mike_cmu04]

You may be better off getting a calcium reactor.

 

[90ct]

You may be better off getting a calcium reactor.

For 18G tank???????????? You're kidding, right??

 

[murphreef]

^ you wouldnt believe it i was dosing 30 ml of alk and 30 ml of calcium in my 20 gallon 2X's daily to keep my levels stable at 8dkh and 400ppm ca. i was going through B-Ionic like it was goin outta style i need to find something else too that might work better than manual dosing twice daily because when i am outa town i gota rely on my roomy to do it and thats kinda scary haha

 

[zangmann]

Good colors! What is this on the bottom right?

Purple base with blue tips??

 

[d0ughb0y]

you are clearly doing something right.
what exactly are you dosing right now?, what salt do you use?

great colors.

 

[philipchan]

You may be better off getting a calcium reactor.

calcium reactor@@ need more money, lol

^ you wouldnt believe it i was dosing 30 ml of alk and 30 ml of calcium in my 20 gallon 2X's daily to keep my levels stable at 8dkh and 400ppm ca. i was going through B-Ionic like it was goin outta style i need to find something else too that might work better than manual dosing twice daily because when i am outa town i gota rely on my roomy to do it and thats kinda scary haha

Damn....I'm dosing 10ML per day for my 18G to keep my system stable...ppl are saying that I'm crazy, but finally I found someone more crazy, hahaaa

Good colors! What is this on the bottom right?

Purple base with blue tips??

I think it's call Acropora hoeksemai
Bright Blue base with Bright green ring tips on it
I just got it few days ago, looking good right now, hope I can keep the color

you are clearly doing something right.
what exactly are you dosing right now?, what salt do you use?

great colors.

Thanks!~
I'm dosing so many things, lol
KH, CA, Magnesion, Iodine, Iron, Potassion, Strontion, KoralColor(Brightwell)

 

[Ricardo Santos]

I think it's call Acropora hoeksemai
Bright Blue base with Bright green ring tips on it
I just got it few days ago, looking good right now, hope I can keep the color

Yeah, is a Acropora hoeksemai

 

[sahin]

Very very nice. Can you please tell us what brand of 20K halide bulb you got and details of the LED as well. Many thanks.

 

[d0ughb0y]

I'm dosing so many things, lol
KH, CA, Magnesion, Iodine, Iron, Potassion, Strontion, KoralColor(Brightwell)

and people say these stuff don't work.

what is that second to last on right?
what is the left most one (kent bottle)?

thanks

 

[philipchan]

and people say these stuff don't work.

what is that second to last on right?
what is the left most one (kent bottle)?

thanks

what is that second to last on right? →That's the GarlicPower, for fish only

what is the left most one (kent bottle)? → that's the Strontion
:spin1:

 

[philipchan]

Very very nice. Can you please tell us what brand of 20K halide bulb you got and details of the LED as well. Many thanks.

Believe me or not...the 20K MH bulb is not a good brand name ones.
I bought it over ebay for $15,150W 20K HQI... I heard from some friends that most of them are just the same. but it works for me, I change them once a year, ,may be I will try to change it twice a year. :spin3:

sorry for the LEDs, is not a brand name ones too, bought it at a LFS, it was like $50, is a LED stripe, but pretty strong tho, will light up the whole tank itself

here are some old pics
and a newer whole tank pic, but is a cell phone poor quality, will upload some more later ^^

poor cell phone pic