Victoria SPS Dominated Reef Owners

[Canadian]

Ok here are some pictures. I took these with my crappy Canon G10 camera. I hate this thing. I wish I had purchased a DSLR instead of letting my wife talk me out of it. But I digress . . . These pics were taken quickly with automatic mode and display the color as more saturated than it really is. Also, the crappy camera (more likely user error) isn't the best when it comes to exposure and I didn't want to take the time to try to edit these in Aperture to make them more accurate tonight. But I will tomorrow if need be.

[Canadian]

Yeah, those pics suck. They're too overexposed to show subtle color highlights and pastel colors.

But I guess the closest thing to "real" color in my tank is the two birdsnest corals on the left. The pink one is incredibly pale and the green one is supposed to have purple polyps and they're pretty much non-existent. Even the green of that birdsnest is super pale with small patches of more vivid green.

[lorenz0]

ya i would try feeding them. Thinking they are just hungry or it could be your light is a tad bit to low. could also try raising it

[christyf5]

I don't know if this might help, its some neat info though.

http://reefbuilders.com/2008/09/03/g...-vivid-bright/

Personally one of the best things I did for my tank besides dosing coral snow and coral vitalizer (I can't say enough good things about this stuff) was dose potassium. It took awhile but my corals really got some amazing colors using it.

[Canadian]

Thanks Christy.

I've read that SPS Colorization thing in the past. I don't know how much of it is reality and how much is fantasy given there's essentially no evidence for most of the claims made. With that said, I don't have much to lose. My biggest concern with K dosing is the inability to accurately test for it with hobbyist test kits. I actually have some Tailored Aquatics K that I've dosed intermittently in the past but I'm a little gun shy given there are no accurate test kits and that Seachem Reef Salt is reported to have adequately high K levels already.

[christyf5]

Yeah I'm sort of on the fence about dosing all that stuff in my tank as well, esp the iron (I can already grow algae like stink, why would I want to give it more fuel?)

What about waterchanges then? How often do you do those? I did also find I got better overall coloration and polyp extension when I started doing 10% waterchanges every week.

[chris121277]

Just tagging along here...trying to get some better color my self

[christyf5]

Forgot you were running zeo so you're probly already sticking to their WC regimen