WillKatt
Active Member
I would have posted this in Icemountain's thread about RP lighting requirments but didnt want to hijack.
So I have a nice size piece of Red Planet which is now of the brown turd variety. I browned mine out about 7-8 months ago and cant get it colored up again. Actually I browned and bleached out allot of SPS. I'm nor sure what the original cause was at that time way too many variables. Anyway all but all but this one either colored up again or are still in the process of coloring up, just not my Red Planet.
Since this happened it has at least doubled in size, encrusted the 2" diameter plug its on and some of the surrounding rock. It has about 50% PE from what it had when I first got it. It was supper hairy when I got it. I have tried this thing up high low and everywhere in between with no change in any direction, not for better or worse.
I do run LEDs (Radion) 14k to 18k then back to 14K with intensity ramping over a 10- 11 hour period and currently have it placed in a 280-290 par range. (I know par readings on leds can be somewhat inaccurate)
Below are my parameters. So how do I get it to color up again without changing the chemistry of the whole tank? Should I just give it up?
After all everything else is thriving im not going to change anything that could effect the entire tank for one brown coral.
PO4: .01-.02
Ph: 7.9-8.1
AlK: 8.7-9.1 DKH
CA: 420-440
NO2/NO3: undetectable
SG: 1.025-1.026
Temp: 78-79f
28 gallons
WC: 20% every three weeks, runs carbon, small amount of GFO , and recently an ATS for filtration
using kalk in ATO along with 6ml each of two part through BRS doser
Feed twice a day. a mix of rodgers reef, reef nutrition oyster eggs, brine, and sometimes a little flake all in the early after noon then after lights out late evening I feed reef chili, reef nutrition phyto feast and have just begun and elos amino acid and coral food regimen.
Ideas?
So I have a nice size piece of Red Planet which is now of the brown turd variety. I browned mine out about 7-8 months ago and cant get it colored up again. Actually I browned and bleached out allot of SPS. I'm nor sure what the original cause was at that time way too many variables. Anyway all but all but this one either colored up again or are still in the process of coloring up, just not my Red Planet.
Since this happened it has at least doubled in size, encrusted the 2" diameter plug its on and some of the surrounding rock. It has about 50% PE from what it had when I first got it. It was supper hairy when I got it. I have tried this thing up high low and everywhere in between with no change in any direction, not for better or worse.
I do run LEDs (Radion) 14k to 18k then back to 14K with intensity ramping over a 10- 11 hour period and currently have it placed in a 280-290 par range. (I know par readings on leds can be somewhat inaccurate)
Below are my parameters. So how do I get it to color up again without changing the chemistry of the whole tank? Should I just give it up?
After all everything else is thriving im not going to change anything that could effect the entire tank for one brown coral.
PO4: .01-.02
Ph: 7.9-8.1
AlK: 8.7-9.1 DKH
CA: 420-440
NO2/NO3: undetectable
SG: 1.025-1.026
Temp: 78-79f
28 gallons
WC: 20% every three weeks, runs carbon, small amount of GFO , and recently an ATS for filtration
using kalk in ATO along with 6ml each of two part through BRS doser
Feed twice a day. a mix of rodgers reef, reef nutrition oyster eggs, brine, and sometimes a little flake all in the early after noon then after lights out late evening I feed reef chili, reef nutrition phyto feast and have just begun and elos amino acid and coral food regimen.
Ideas?
