coral growth

My trumpet has been acting strange for the past year or so. It had a big spike of growth last year with 6 heads growing and very fleshy. Now it is very shriveled and not getting any growth, but not receding or showing any signs of sickness. Could anyone explain this? Parameters: alk: 7 Calcium...

Hello, I have a biocube 32g and I have not noticed very much growth in my corals and have heard/read it could be because of my light schedule. My current light schedule is for the pink (sun rise) lights to come on at 9:30am-10:00am. My whites come on at 10:00am and are on until 5:00pm. My sunset...

Hello, I have had a saltwater tank for many years, but I travel often and like the tank to be as automated as possible. I currently have the following setup: 90 Gallon Tank Sapphire Sump Tank Protein Skimmer Icecap Algae Scrubber (1 week old) Automatic fish feeder Live Rock A few soft coral...

There’s probably a post out there like this, but I wanted to create a thread to get specific answers for this question and hopefully help some others out along the way. I have been trying to tune in my AI Prime 16 HD over my Fluval Evo 13.5 for some time now. I’m slowly sorting out all of my...

So I've heard and read a lot of different things on ways to help with coral coloration and tried many, just have yet to find any amazing results. Here's a little back story on what I've tried along with current parameters: Tank: 45g JBJ AIO Light: Hydra 52 (I run 16k at 30% with a 1 hr ramp up...

Hi I'm having difficulty rising my Cal/Alk levels i have increased dosing from 55ml to 200ml 116 gallon tank. Previously 55ml to maintain DKH 8.0 and PH 7.7-7.9 up until 10.02.2020 when i noticed C Balance Part B was not being added by Apex dosing pump as tube was not fully submerged in bottle...

Hi guys, I filmed a few species of the Acropora I keep to see what their response was to being target fed Ocean Nutrition's 'Reef Pulse'. The Acropora didn't seem to directly ingest any of the food, but did capture some, only to release it with mucus a few moments after being filmed. I will be...

Need some help with setting my lights proper. I understand they aren’t the best lights but I have only a few fish In a 40 gallon with all LPS no SPS. I have decent growth but nothing great. I currently have it set at sunrise-1-2 hours 85%white 50%blue 15%red 15%green daylight 6-7 hours...

Hi all, After reading up on the results from @Lasse, and information from @Dana Riddle in regards to the importance of far red and infra red spectrums in lighting, I'm going to conduct an experiment. I have a 300 litre Acropora dominant reef aquarium with 2x Radion XR30 G3 Pros running at 74%...

Hello all! I have a camera mounted to the side of my tank which takes a few images per day, and every now and again I create a timelapse and post it up to YouTube. The last one was 7 months, this one is 15. Check it out! It's really cool to watch corals grow in sped up time. Whiskey

Hi guys this is a little project I’ve been working on for a few months and now looking for your views on this subject. It all started with me getting a few non photosynthetic corals (gorgonians) and got me thinking in a way we’re I could give them a constant supply of food. The project started...

Hello all! I'm beginning to figure out this video software! This is a video that shows 7 months of growth in 30 seconds. Hope you like it! Whiskey

I have a 55 gallon (RSR250) that's been up for 14 months now. This is my first reef tank and I'd give it a B. My fish are doing great, my BTA is HUGE, my inverts are happy (I have two urchins who are both female - they're released eggs; plus assorted shrimp and reef hermits), but most of my...

I use ATI bulb on my 55 gallon and right now I'm using 2 blue+, 1 aquablue special, and 1 purple+. which ATI says is 10K-14K. I'm wondering if I should keep that and put a reef brite actinic blue lumi lite strip on id have that run 3 hours in the morning and 3 hours at night. or if I should do...

Which light setting is best to grow SPS coral as well as soft corals. I care about growth the most. Especially the growth of SPS coral. Thanks!!!

I own three different hammer corals. Two purple tip and a gold hammer. Really nice pieces! Any ways the two purple tips both seem to be splitting maybe? They closed up like this before (Not fully) when they developed new mouths. Also not fully closed now.. Any one ever notice this in your tank...

Hi, I've had that coral for about 6 months and it hasn't grow, changed of split. I upgraded my lights to Prime HD about 3 weeks ago. Any tip or suggestion on how to help it split or grow or spread ?

hello - I am looking for recommendations on a comprehensive book that gives the details on setting up and maintaining corals. I have been raising saltwater fish over ten years. Thanks

Approx. 1.5 years back: No3 level was off the range ... super RED; from memory, it's above 120 ppm :mad: After adding some Siporax media in my sump and NoPox dosing for considerable amount of time, the No3 level has dropped to undetected level (0 ppm). :D Approx. 6 months back: Stopped dosing...