animalkingdom
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I got a frag of red planet a few months ago and it has steadily declined in health. It started out as a fresh frag from a local reefer from some newer growth on his large colony. Because of this the tips were mostly whitish but the base still had good color.
Over the next months polyp extension decreased, then the color started to fade and now it is a rather bleached looking whitish pink with no polyp extension. I imagine its a light issue but I have a variety of acropora thriving at the same height in the tank. I did do a shorter light acclimation than normal as it was going from a radion led lit tank to my led/T5 lit tank.
Because I know yall will ask my parameters are fine:
Calc: 410
Alk: 7.6
Mag:1250
Phos: undetectable using hanna egg
SG: 1.026
Temp: 79ish
I have a mix of 4 T5s and 3w leds for lights
I have a great skimmer and dont use phosphate remover and only occasionally use GAC
Water changes are either 10% weekly or 20% biweekly
here is a pic:
honestly it looks like its on its way out...or the way colonies sometimes look after shipping stress....just cant figure out what is doing it. some coral that I have at the same light levels are ORA frogskin and ORA Ant Insig
On a side not but it may be related green montis and monti setosa in my frag tank (same system different lighting) have paled out as well. The system is a 58 gal display 40 gal breeder and 20 gallon sump and gets fed a cube of PE mysis every day and some days NLS pellets as well.
Over the next months polyp extension decreased, then the color started to fade and now it is a rather bleached looking whitish pink with no polyp extension. I imagine its a light issue but I have a variety of acropora thriving at the same height in the tank. I did do a shorter light acclimation than normal as it was going from a radion led lit tank to my led/T5 lit tank.
Because I know yall will ask my parameters are fine:
Calc: 410
Alk: 7.6
Mag:1250
Phos: undetectable using hanna egg
SG: 1.026
Temp: 79ish
I have a mix of 4 T5s and 3w leds for lights
I have a great skimmer and dont use phosphate remover and only occasionally use GAC
Water changes are either 10% weekly or 20% biweekly
here is a pic:
honestly it looks like its on its way out...or the way colonies sometimes look after shipping stress....just cant figure out what is doing it. some coral that I have at the same light levels are ORA frogskin and ORA Ant Insig
On a side not but it may be related green montis and monti setosa in my frag tank (same system different lighting) have paled out as well. The system is a 58 gal display 40 gal breeder and 20 gallon sump and gets fed a cube of PE mysis every day and some days NLS pellets as well.