RTN!! $@#&!!

[chris121277]

So.....is my dusk to dawn ok? or should I be backing that off as well?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by chris121277

So.....is my dusk to dawn ok? or should I be backing that off as well?

Depends on the intensity of the light, I'm not familiar with T5. I use a single actinic from 8am to 1:30pm, then daylight until 8:30, then back to the actinic until midnight. Works way better for me over my previous 10 or 11 hour daylight cycle. Saves on bulbs too.

[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.

[reefermadness]

I'm sorry to say but I don't see any truly healthy corals in those pictures. Extremely pale and bleached looking corals. Pale colors are from too much light, and/or too little bioload-feedings....

Yes you can experience a tempory growth spurt when corals are put into this environment but soon they stop growing and things go down hill.

[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 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?