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Old 08-01-2013, 07:46 PM
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One thought I'd like to put out there, if you're running biopellets then mostlikely it's a low nutrient system. Most of my friends including me run alk at 7-8 with BP.

Another thing when buying and keeping sps, frags will brown out from transfer to a new system. Depending on the sps some more than others, my Red planet didn't lose colour after putting it in my tank, my blue milli went green and now starting to colour up. I have about 30 new sps frags and while some have coloured up some have coloured down. I wouldn't worry about your new frags as it could take a month for them to get use to your system. Pale sps means you can feed abit more but watch them close, if they're all turning darker then back off the feeding.

I feed 3-5 times a week and very sparingly and found that its a good balance, all sps is growing fast and colours are good. If a coral came from a t5 tank to led be very carefull as you could bleach it under led, lots of people under estimate the power of led including myself and have learned the hard way. I now use t5 so it's deffinately less intense than led but loving the sps colours.
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