blue tip sps

[arsenalfc]

hi guys.....ive added a tunze 6080 onto my system about a month ago & all my corals are begin to colour up & grow again.

I added a blue tip acro at the same time as all over corals, which has turned brown also....all corals in the flow area of the 6080 are lookin great.

so ive added a 6100 which has increased the flow around the blue tip.....do you think it will colour back up? i have two 400w MH as my tank is 32" deep (water level). The blue tip is directly under the MH about 14" from surface. it went brown within a weeks of placing it in tank.

All reading are good.....cal is a little high at 550;)


Thanks :rolleyes:

[wayne g]

my personal experiences with colouring up sps dont have a great deal to do with lighting intensity....and that they are more related to low organics.
concentrate on getting water quality tip top and colour will appear more readily.
this is the reason that i am NOT now going to upgrade from 250 watt halides to 400's....in a 30" deep tank.

having said that some sps corals will change from tank to tank for no apparent reason that i can test for.
:confused:

[Reef bloke]

Yep as per Wayneg,its more to do with water quality ie Nitrate,PO4 and DOM.

[Sweetlips]

I'm not a contradicive sort of person but FWIW I have a blue tip acro, It sits just below the surface in medium to high flow, under 250s, I have a nitrate and a phosphate problem, not to mention a bryopsis problem and it is the best coral in my tank, I have had it for 9 months and it has doubled in size, It now has 13 tips with other tips growing from the side of some branches, having said that, I also have a table acro, that has turned a brown/green color,It was a lovely white 4 months ago, I did some reserch and I was told too much PO4 is the cause. So there you go, who can say for sure what goes on, we can only generalise I guess..HTH..Steve

[arsenalfc]

since the 6100 has been introduced.......I think I can see little blue tips again very small or maybe this is just wishful thinking...........

[Sweetlips]

Hope everything goes well for you...more flow the better for these type of corals seems to be the gereral rule, within reason of course.....Steve.

[fishandchips]

its more to do with water quality ie Nitrate,PO4 and DOM.

what is DOM :confused:

[fishman]

dicks brother in the bungalow:p

[alanwsg]

Dissolved Organic Material I'd guess
(Normally, it's refered to as "DOC", "C"=Compounds)

[arsenalfc]

guys my phos is 0 & nitrates about between 0ppm-5ppm.....anythink else i need to do?.....thanks

[kizkiz]

huge oversized skimmer seems to work well for colour. lots of DOC removal there

[Reef bloke]

DOM=Dissolved Organic Matter or Dick,Doms partner in crime from Da Bungalow as already mentioned.

[arsenalfc]

my skimmer is a schuran 200 on a 180 gallon tank....is that large enough?