Dull/brownish SPS colors

[Nami]

Hi R2R team,

I have a few SPS frags that have been growing the past year but they have lost their shine compared to when I purchased them from the store. The frags include cherry bomb, green slimer, digitatas, etc. I have also recently acquired an unknown staghorn (in attached photo).

Specifications:
Tank: Redsea Max Nano XL
Light: Reefled 115 at 90-100% for 10 hours.
KH: ~8.0dkh
Cal:~450ppm
Nitrate: ~0.0
Phosphate:~0.02

Anyone has any idea what is causing these dull colors?

Also if someone can identify the unknown stag in the photo, which I took without any lighting. It seems to be pale blue in color with a lot of polyps.

Cheers!

 

[nautical_nathaniel]

Water might be too clean. Your rockwork doesn't really look like it's at least a year old in a cycled reef aquarium, not a whole lot of buildup or coralline algae.

What lighting spectrum are you running? I'm assuming the white lighting was for photo purposes and the tank doesn't run at that spectrum all the time.

 

[allof fish]

Hi R2R team,

I have a few SPS frags that have been growing the past year but they have lost their shine compared to when I purchased them from the store. The frags include cherry bomb, green slimer, digitatas, etc. I have also recently acquired an unknown staghorn (in attached photo).

Specifications:
Tank: Redsea Max Nano XL
Light: Reefled 115 at 90-100% for 10 hours.
KH: ~8.0dkh
Cal:~450ppm
Nitrate: ~0.0
Phosphate:~0.02

Anyone has any idea what is causing these dull colors?

Also if someone can identify the unknown stag in the photo, which I took without any lighting. It seems to be pale blue in color with a lot of polyps.

Cheers!

100% has something to do with nutrients. Nitrates need to be between 5-10 at least and phosphate.05. Water being too clean can dull their colors out as there’s no nutrients in water. I’m also curious about your spectrum of light as well

 

[Nami]

I had to replace the original live rock due to how difficult it is to clean off the bubble algae in the crevices. The light spectrum that I’ve been running is as below:

 

[Troylee]

What lights are they? The higher the lighting the better the color in my experience.

 

[Troylee]

Sorry I just saw reef led. I’m not familiar with those lights but I blast everything with 800 to 1000 par and get great results. My nitrates around 10 and phosphates around .4 “yes .4” it’s high lol!