What is considered dark corals in the zeovit system?
 

Hey everyone!

So im still trying to get the hang of the zeovit system and I have a question. What does everyone mean by dark coral coloration? Its on all the zeovit sites, but Im not really sure what they mean. Do they mean brown coral coloration, or something else?

Bold colors in high nutrient system vs pale colors in ULNS. If I understand it right, in the systems with high nutrients corals accumulate more zooxantelas which gives darker, bold colors.

Let's see if I can muddy this up for you, lol:

http://i.imgur.com/j5pRZ.jpg

On the right is a coral that is proper colors (albeit, closed up due to my handling).

On the right is a coral that has become pale.

With corals that have become "dark", you'll notice a loss of contrast at the color gradients. In this instance, the green and purple would merge visually as a dark maroon or brown.

Perfectly muddy. I think you meant the coral on the left has become pale =)

Ah I see that clears things up actually!

So its more about the contrast in the coral? Makes sense because the best zeovit systems seem to have allot of contrast in their sps.

... Shut up Brett. I can be wrong if I want to.

I have a high nutrient system with 0.25 of phosphates and my corals are quite dark yet they are very colorfull. exemple of non-anorexic corals:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps6b7b71a0.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps1bf37976.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps345e4047.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...psb768416a.jpg

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps4b2493e1.jpg



and these are anorexic corals that were kept in low nutrient system when I got them, very pâle color, almost bleached:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps82cf5ad6.jpg

The same coral after a month in my tank:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...pse248df66.jpg

Again when I got the coral, very pâle:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps6550a5f6.jpg

and after a month in my tank:

http://i786.photobucket.com/albums/y...ps5a2ca3c6.jpg

Nice corals.

Not quite what is meant by "dark" on the KZ boards though :P

Well, Daniella, sure can't argue with your success, despite often defying conventional wisdom. With .25 phosphates, I'm surprised you don't have any algae problems. I was running near zero phosphates, and my tank was looking good. But when my phosphates got over .10, algae started appearing again.

I wonder if there are good and bad phosphates. I believe you feed your corals various additives and food. So maybe the phosphates that come from that are not so bad??

In my case, the phosphates came from another tank (when I combined 2 tanks into 1 sump) that had live rock and sand with high phosphates.

I really don't know where the phosphates are coming from. Probably from the frozen food. I give PE mysis to my fish and corals.

I don't think there is 2 types of phosphates though :)