I have raised my lights up an inch and cut back on day lighting.....any idea how long it will take to see a difference in them?

weeks for slight improvements.....months for a complete turn around. Nothing good happens fast in this hobby.

I would bank on the bio-pellets being the issue....my lights are on from 10am to midmight between the actinics and daylights and you know what my coral looks like.....I think your sps went through nutrient shock not over exposure to light.....

Something that I don't get about this is that I still have all kinds of algae growing in my fuge and I do still have a slight amount of turf algae in my display.

How deep is your display and how high are you lights off the water there Doug?


And to be honest, I didn't think they looked bad......I went from brown SPS's to pale (with color)

I'm going to try and get some better pic's with the white balance set as close to right as I can.

These still aren't perfect......I'm having a hell of a time with how blue my lights are now and getting the camera to show what I'm seeing

But....I know I haven't got the best color....but do they really look bad enough for me to be paranoid about?

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300053.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300054.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300055.jpg

this one looks alot paler do to the glare from the lights

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300056.jpg

http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300057.jpg
http://i461.photobucket.com/albums/q...k/P4300058.jpg

Well....no now that I look all the pic's......the colors are way more vivid in person....maybe I should try again after the day lights turn off

To me they look quite bad but I am used to see corals with loads of colors, here are some of mine. Maybe that's because I am used to dark and very saturated SPS.

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y.../103_1228s.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y.../103_1082s.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...103_1099s2.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y.../103_0881s.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y.../103_0966s.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y.../103_1497s.jpg

Ya, if they were mine, I'd worry about it.

Daniella, your sps corals are looking fabulous with amazing color :shocked!: I can't believe they had been poisoned from Kent carbon before... I highly doubt about it :wink:
Half of mine are still struggling with their color, especially all the blue and purple ones.

The colors of your SPS in your totm 2011 pictures look more like what they should look like.

Thank you everyone for your input, I'll start a new thread for help getting them to color back up, as well as post some pic's along the way :wink:


By the way...the coral that I started the thread about hasn't lost any tissue since I fragged it :biggrin: