frustrated with colour...

[kwirky]

Originally Posted by Joe Reefer

Kwirky, do you feed any type of coral food? You may want to consider supplementing them something.

I have some kent coral food (dropper bottle) but I bought it before I got the SPS and never noticed any results when using it then. Never bothered using it when I got the SPS because it didn't seem to help with the softies/lps I have.

I could try dosing it again. what about cyclop-eez? think that would be good to use too?

I feed my LPS with frozen mysis using forceps twice a week already. helps with growth but hasn't really improved colour.

I'm going to try dosing the kent coral food again, and I'm going to feed my fish a little more too. I have fish that aren't finicky at all, so I feed them new life spectrum marine flake once daily and frozen mysis twice a week when I feed the lps (i give them the leftovers).

Should I increase the flake feeding or the mysis feeding?

What nitrate levels should I start to worry then? It's undetectable now, do I slow down the heavy feeding at 0.4ppm? 1.0ppm? 3ppm? or higher?

also there aren't any phosphates in the tank because I've been using a phosban reactor for at least 6 months. Don't even think it'll have any in the rocks n such because it's been running for a while. Heard some coral use phosphates too. Maybe take it off?

[Renegade]

just a though but make sure your carbon does not leak phosphates back into the water some variates do. If so then your phos-ban reactor is going to waste. I stopped using carbon b/c i found it was exausting my media to quickly. I'm now using cemi-pure quite happy so far.
http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...t_ID=bd-cpre10

[marie]

I wouldn't let the nitrates become detectable but I would slowly increase feedings until nitrates start to become detectable or you get a small algae bloom and then back off on the amount a little bit.

Also feed an assortment of food... cyclopeeze, frozen mysis, finely chopped squid or oysters ect.