pale colours sps

Proteus · #1 08-01-2013, 05:31 PM

Yeah +1 what brad said.

And just wait a couple weeks. Fresh cut frags seem to loose color IMO. And lighting and water from other tank.

Some pieces could take a month to color up. My red planet went yellow after tank transfer. Grows like a weed but still waiting to regain its glory and its been 4 months

Seth81 · #2 08-01-2013, 05:39 PM

I am not sure why you would dial down your lighitng, especially LED. I have found that SPS coloration improves with specifically more UV light, I doubled the UV LED's in my tank, and color improvment is significant.

Seth81 · #3 08-01-2013, 05:40 PM

If we were talking about LPS like chaliace then yeah put it low, but SPS, specifically Acropora or Milli, need intense light.

Aquattro · #4 08-01-2013, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Seth81

I am not sure why you would dial down your lighitng, especially LED. I have found that SPS coloration improves with specifically more UV light, I doubled the UV LED's in my tank, and color improvment is significant.

If they came from a tank with dual T5 and went under a LED at 90%, they'd bake in about 3 days

Dialing down to match the source lighting is a good idea. Then slowly ramp up

chef · #5 08-01-2013, 05:51 PM

They came from a tank with dual 250 mh, and one with 6 T5's

Seth81 · #6 08-01-2013, 06:56 PM

Hmmm That could explain a few things

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Originally Posted by Aquattro

If they came from a tank with dual T5 and went under a LED at 90%, they'd bake in about 3 days

Dialing down to match the source lighting is a good idea. Then slowly ramp up

ruslicus · #7 08-01-2013, 07:07 PM

For how long you have BioPellets? I have same problem Illumina, BioPellets with pale SPS colors. Reading through forums I've got a feeling it can be due to BioPellets combined with intense light from Illumina. Do you have UV module? I was advised do not go more than 20% for UV module. After 3 months I have removed BioPellets from system. Have few days - no improvements yet

so cannot confirm

chef · #8 08-01-2013, 07:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ruslicus

For how long you have BioPellets? I have same problem Illumina, BioPellets with pale SPS colors. Reading through forums I've got a feeling it can be due to BioPellets combined with intense light from Illumina. Do you have UV module? I was advised do not go more than 20% for UV module. After 3 months I have removed BioPellets from system. Have few days - no improvements yet

so cannot confirm

i've been running pellets for a year. i'm going to lower my ca and alk, increase light a bit, and watch and wait.

ruslicus · #9 08-01-2013, 07:40 PM

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Originally Posted by chef

i've been running pellets for a year. i'm going to lower my ca and alk, increase light a bit, and watch and wait.

ok. keep us posted as I am dealing with same issue and very curious to know the outcome. Thx

tang daddy · #10 08-01-2013, 07:46 PM

One thought I'd like to put out there, if you're running biopellets then mostlikely it's a low nutrient system. Most of my friends including me run alk at 7-8 with BP.

Another thing when buying and keeping sps, frags will brown out from transfer to a new system. Depending on the sps some more than others, my Red planet didn't lose colour after putting it in my tank, my blue milli went green and now starting to colour up. I have about 30 new sps frags and while some have coloured up some have coloured down. I wouldn't worry about your new frags as it could take a month for them to get use to your system. Pale sps means you can feed abit more but watch them close, if they're all turning darker then back off the feeding.

I feed 3-5 times a week and very sparingly and found that its a good balance, all sps is growing fast and colours are good. If a coral came from a t5 tank to led be very carefull as you could bleach it under led, lots of people under estimate the power of led including myself and have learned the hard way. I now use t5 so it's deffinately less intense than led but loving the sps colours.