RTN!! $@#&!!

[chris121277]

This may be a stupid question....but if they were bleached....would I suddenly experience a growth spurt?

The last 2 months or so my other SPS's have been growing by leaps and bounds

[Aquattro]

Not sure, but I'd guess probably not. And it's possible I'm just not seeing the pics right, but even with the white balance off, you should see some color. The RP, you can see the polyps fine, so I have to assume the tissue is white. It should be red, or under less light, a green tinge. Not white.

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Not sure, but I'd guess probably not. And it's possible I'm just not seeing the pics right, but even with the white balance off, you should see some color. The RP, you can see the polyps fine, so I have to assume the tissue is white. It should be red, or under less light, a green tinge. Not white.

The RP and the one that I had RTNing have only been in my tank for a few days.....so I don't think they would be good to use for an idea of my corals....

but here...this was a few days ago of my Milli, is this bleached?

[Aquattro]

Ya, that's a white milli, which don't exist in nature

[reefermadness]

That looks kinda cool but ya that is a bleached green millepora....these corals are stressed.

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

That looks kinda cool but ya that is a bleached green millepora....these corals are stressed.

well....a few months ago (under my old fixtures) it was a brown "green" Millipora so....guess I went from one extreme to the other...lol

I also started Bio Pellets about 3 months ago.....so should they not supply some additional food for them?

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Ya, that's a white milli, which don't exist in nature

Ok....so I'm a little confused on what I should do about it.....a week or so ago I changed bulbs.....I went from 4 to 2 "day light" bulbs.

Now I just changed my timeer to pull back the day light to 7 hours.....but the new bulbs should be better for color as well...right?

Should I just do that for now?

[Aquattro]

What are you running in the reactors? Do you have fish in here? Do you feed them a fair amount?

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

What are you running in the reactors? Do you have fish in here? Do you feed them a fair amount?

I have carbon in one and Bio Pellets in the other

My fish are
1 Hippo Tang
1 Sail Fin Blenny
1 Mandarin
1 Coral Goby
2 Purcs
1 High Fin Goby
1 6 line Wrasse
1 Yellow Tang

I feed once a day.....either 1/2 a cube Mysis, Brine shrimp or a pinch of new life spectrum pellets........with a pinch of algae/sea weed pellets every other day

[reefermadness]

I would say to drop your daylights down to 5 or 6hrs (temporayily but maybe 7-8 after colours come back).....keep your actinic period 11 or 12 that is fine. If you think you have a low fish load and dont feed much, well you can up those....possibly significantly. Also Amino Acids might help till you get things back in order.

**edit** bio-pellets is another clue...you need to feed a lot more after your biopellets get working. Sounds like you have both problems....too long of a photo period and too low nutrient/bioload/feedings.