Undata Question

[winschuc]

I've had a large piece of Jedi mind trick for around 2 months now and, while still growing (slowly), it's starting to turn more brown and i haven't seen significant polyp extension in a few weeks. Parameters stay pretty stable 1.023-25 (depending on water change), 78 degrees, PH 8, ca 420ish, Alk 8ish.

I'm thinking it may be a lighting/flow issue, but I cant seem to find the sweet spot. the piece is sitting approximately 15" below a 250w 20K halide.

Thanks!
- Chris

 

[saltbubbles]

I have a piece that I wasn't glued except to the plug and it get moved by critters and was browning but since I glued it to a piece of rock it regained color. How are your other corals?

 

[winschuc]

Everything else is looking good. Frogspawn, zoos are open and colorful. Favia still has pretty good color and seems alright.

 

[saltbubbles]

Maybe time to change your bulbs?

 

[snowmansnow]

winschuc;880802 wrote: Everything else is looking good. Frogspawn, zoos are open and colorful. Favia still has pretty good color and seems alright.

while your parameters are stable, and seem to be in an ok range you may have something a little off for keeping SPS.

Frogspawn, favia, and zoas can live and even thrive in water conditions that SPS will quickly die in.

I may have missed it, but what kind of lighting are you running?

 

[ringo®]

I'm with snow, having any algae issues in your tank?

 

[winschuc]

Nothing too bad. Some small patches of cyano, but that's due to a miscommunication between myself and my tank sitter for the past week... when I explained that the chunk of Frozen food should be about the size of the tip of his thumb every other day, he missed the words tip and other...

I'll upload a pic a little later.

So, on the parameters, I have to use ballpark due to the API test kits I'm using at the moment.

And a little more clarification in the undata, it's still primarily green, just a bunch of brown toward the center and the red polyps are not extending. Still showing growth though. I really just want it to regain the purple edge and show polyp extension again.

 

[winschuc]

Sorry, running a 250w hi halide on an icecap and supplementing with around 90w DIY led's

 

[winschuc]

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[ringo®]

Get nutrients under control and I bet it slowly goes back to normal

 

[snowmansnow]

if your water is good you just have to wait it out and let it grow.
remember,
we don't keep corals and fish....
we keep water

 

[jfritts91]

+1 @ Ringo. Nutrients. Excess nutrients can quickly discolor a coral. Had that issue with some orange ora Digitata a few months back, cut back on the amount of food I was feeding to the other corals (which did just fine regardless) and bit by bit they colored back up.

 

[winschuc]

Yeah, mixing up enough for a 30% WC tomorrow, then ill do another this weekend. Pretty much just spot feeding pellets for the next week or two. Hopefully it'll come back. It's already starting to regain color just skimming a little wetter. We'll see how it goes. Thanks for the replies, they settled me down a bit.

 

[winschuc]

One other thing, thinking about running GFO during the off cycle of my fuge lights to pull some excess out. Will this affect my chaeto?