acan echinata bleaching?

[baslewprime]

im using a HD PRIME with david saxby settings

40g cube 24 inch from lights to bottom of tank

any advice?

TIA

 

[TheEngineer]

What are your parameters?

It doesn't look bleached, but I can see it is a little pale.

 

[baslewprime]

What are your parameters?

It doesn't look bleached, but I can see it is a little pale.

alk 10.8
mag 1280
cal 370
ph 8.2
po4 undetectable
no3 2ppm

 

[Tuffyyyyy]

Did you maybe get some sand in there or something? Looks like you've got some decent polyp extension in the back, and I don't think that light is going to cook anything.

 

[baslewprime]

Did you maybe get some sand in there or something? Looks like you've got some decent polyp extension in the back, and I don't think that light is going to cook anything.

i moved recently and most of them are fine except those 3.

 

[TheEngineer]

High alk and low nutrients make some corals unhappy.

 

[baslewprime]

High alk and low nutrients make some corals unhappy.

yes but im not dosing just doing wc every 3 weeks. also im not running gfo just gac

 

[TheEngineer]

What salt are you using? Your alk is high and your calc is low.

 

[baslewprime]

instant ocean the regular one.

 

[TheEngineer]

That's about right for alk with IO, but calc should be over 400.

 

[baslewprime]

That's about right for alk with IO, but calc should be over 400.

what should i do? i was looking for dosing amino acid from polyp labs to raise my nutrients.

 

[TheEngineer]

For now, I'm not sure I'd do anything. Double check that calcium test.