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[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by chris121277

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

Kinda light. In my tank with 12 fish (bigger than your load), I feed mysis or plankton twice a day, a full sheet of nori everyday and I toss some various pellets and flakes in when I'm hanging out at the tank. the frozen is usually at least a 1x1 square, rinsed in a strainer.

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

Kinda light. In my tank with 12 fish (bigger than your load), I feed mysis or plankton twice a day, a full sheet of nori everyday and I toss some various pellets and flakes in when I'm hanging out at the tank. the frozen is usually at least a 1x1 square, rinsed in a strainer.

What size of tank are you running man?

Am I wrong in interpreting that Bio Pellets will provide a food source for my corals as well as help with trates/phos?

[daniella3d]

They all look bleached and starving. start feeding these corals and not fish food. Give some amine acid like the one from Zeovit and coral vitalizer from zeovit. Fauna marin have good coral food too. They are in very bad shape and they will probably die if the conditions are not changed.

I would reduce the light to acclimate them to the new light slowly and feed them each day.

None of them have the right color and look normal.

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by daniella3d

They are in very bad shape and they will probably die if the conditions are not changed.

I think that might be a little extreme, I've been growing most of these corals for 4+ years and last few months I've gotten better growth and color then ever.

Now, I'm not denying that they may be a little pale/bleached...that being said I do appreciate the input on coral foods.....I've always been taught that SPS's don't need any other then fish poo....and I will be looking into some.

[Aquattro]

I've never directly fed corals "coral food", only feed the fish and they take care of fertilizing. I did notice loss of vibrance for the period where I was without fish.
I don't think you're in immediate danger of them dying, although I would guess they are in a weakened state and that might have something to do with the tissue loss.

[reefermadness]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

I've never directly fed corals "coral food", only feed the fish and they take care of fertilizing. I did notice loss of vibrance for the period where I was without fish.
I don't think you're in immediate danger of them dying, although I would guess they are in a weakened state and that might have something to do with the tissue loss.

+1

[chris121277]

The coral that has tissue loss has only been in my tank for a few days....so I do suspect that it's due to stress from the move to it's new home....this coral is quite brown so I don't believe that it is bleached.

But now that you guys mention it I do noticed that alot of my SPS's are very pail. So I've backed my day lighting off to about 7 hours....but I can't help but wonder if the new bulbs will make a difference them selves in a few weeks...

My old bulbs were only 3 months old but for day light I had
1-6500k Giesseman
1-1000k Current
2-1400k Giesseman

And my new day bulbs

2-ATI 1200k

What promoted me to change out my not so old bulbs was this Article by CoralProps in witch he say's that some of the bulbs I was running had a tendency to brown out some corals and stress others.

http://www.practicalcoralfarming.com/t5spectrums.html

My thought behind this is that I don't want to make to many changes all at once...then if something get's better or worse I won't know exactly what it was to change it.

What do you guys think?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by chris121277

What size of tank are you running man?

Am I wrong in interpreting that Bio Pellets will provide a food source for my corals as well as help with trates/phos?

I've got a 180 with larger fish. I haven't used biopellets, but have heard they can starve the tank of PO4 and NO3, both essential in small amounts to fuel growth. Not sure about them feeding corals, I haven't heard that, but I haven't looked either.

[FitoPharmer]

Some companies claim the bacteria that feed on the bio pellets, no3, and po4 feed corals. I have never seen or heard of hard evidence.