wild sps corals improving colours with vinegar dosing

[redadeath]

i raise wild sps colonies special all kind of acros i got 100 g tank with huge amount of light and flow all my sps are growing

i use carbon dosing and i have hann ult ppb po4 clorometer
my parameters are

calcium 400-420
kh 10
po4 0.03-0.04
magnesium 1350

i am not sure i feel coral are pale and i am increasing feeding for 2 weeks now ithout any improvements

i dose brithwell aquatics amino with coralfrenzy and cyclopeeze and sefoad for feeding acros at night

should i decrease lightning intenisity or light period or increase feeding

see in the picture the colonies at the left bottom

 

[kylathwe]

With carbon dosing it is said to keep your alkalinity closer to 8. 10 may be too high.

 

[redadeath]

yeah i heared that but what is the idea of low alkalinity ?

 

[kylathwe]

With the ULNS that carbon dosing creates a higher alk can burn the tips of sps.

 

[redadeath]

yeah but i need to know does alk in ultns related to coral colouration and pale sps ??

 

[redadeath]

Hope getting som info

 

[DerekFF]

Some corals just don't get colorful. It's just how they are.

 

[jda]

Stripping out nutrients will typically result in pale SPS. Too many nutrients will typically result in brown SPS. You need to find something in the middle IMO.

If you feel that your SPS are already pale, then I don't think that using vinegar will help you out much.

You don't really have a ton of light for SPS. You could easily add another MH and drop the panels if you suspect the lights.

Lastly, ^ is true... some corals just don't look great... moreso wild, mari and aqua culture stuff. If you want true beauties, then buy some named frags.

 

[toothman]

vinegar dosing will drive nitrate to 0 as well as lower phosphate. For me it has not been the best method to keep saturated color acros. Try just adding zeostart 3,for your carbon source it has some nitrate in it to balance the export of nitrate/phosphate.