RTN!! $@#&!!

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

I think we have gotten to the point where good skimmers are very affordable...people are trying carbon dosing, gfo etc and I'm seeing many people with the the same symptoms. In fact I've helped quite a few and all of them have improvement after listening to my advise.

Oh I forgot to mention that I'm increasing my feeding as well.....and I am listening don't you worry LOL

So, the other people have had the SPS's pale after starting Bio pellets?.....see I've been unsure as to what has started the change in my corals (changed to many things at once) I started Pellets and upgraded my lights, switched to H20 pro salt, and changed my flow all at the same time

[reefermadness]

Yes....people have reported similar results from biopellets. Also you can get bleaching from new bulbs as well....

In the simplest of terms coral lightening/bleaching/paleness is from too much light and/or too little food/nutrients. Coral browning is the opposite....not enough light and/or too much food/nutrients.

Gotta find that sweat spot!

[ottoman]

Originally Posted by reefermadness

Yes....people have reported similar results from biopellets. Also you can get bleaching from new bulbs as well....

In the simplest of terms coral lightening/bleaching/paleness is from too much light and/or too little food/nutrients. Coral browning is the opposite....not enough light and/or too much food/nutrients.

Gotta find that sweat spot!

+1...totally agree...Before I feed less to control nutrients, but after I run biopellets, I have to feed more because the cycle is taking out the nutrients much faster from the system.

[daniella3d]

Ultra low nutrients systems do tend to make coral pastel in color but nowhere near the bleaching you have. Corals are actually very colorfull and saturated in color in a ULN.

I don't see much if any color in your corals. They should very saturated in color.

Look at any zeovit sytem and you will see how they should be in a ULN. IN a system with nitrates and phosphates like mine, they don't have to be brown. Mine are very colorfull, just darker in color and very far from brown, but I do feed them coral food each day.

Originally Posted by chris121277

Oh I forgot to mention that I'm increasing my feeding as well.....and I am listening don't you worry LOL

So, the other people have had the SPS's pale after starting Bio pellets?.....see I've been unsure as to what has started the change in my corals (changed to many things at once) I started Pellets and upgraded my lights, switched to H20 pro salt, and changed my flow all at the same time

[chris121277]

I have raised my lights up an inch and cut back on day lighting.....any idea how long it will take to see a difference in them?

[reefermadness]

weeks for slight improvements.....months for a complete turn around. Nothing good happens fast in this hobby.

The colors of your SPS in your totm 2011 pictures look more like what they should look like.

[chris121277]

Thank you everyone for your input, I'll start a new thread for help getting them to color back up, as well as post some pic's along the way


By the way...the coral that I started the thread about hasn't lost any tissue since I fragged it

[fishytime]

I would bank on the bio-pellets being the issue....my lights are on from 10am to midmight between the actinics and daylights and you know what my coral looks like.....I think your sps went through nutrient shock not over exposure to light.....

[chris121277]

Originally Posted by fishytime

I would bank on the bio-pellets being the issue....my lights are on from 10am to midmight between the actinics and daylights and you know what my coral looks like.....I think your sps went through nutrient shock not over exposure to light.....

Something that I don't get about this is that I still have all kinds of algae growing in my fuge and I do still have a slight amount of turf algae in my display.

How deep is your display and how high are you lights off the water there Doug?


And to be honest, I didn't think they looked bad......I went from brown SPS's to pale (with color)

I'm going to try and get some better pic's with the white balance set as close to right as I can.