Iridescent pocilopora bleaching

[Rooles]

Hello!

I noticed today the tips of my iridescent pocillopora are bleaching.

What could be causing this?

Using the stock lights on my fluval flex 32.5g
Heres my lighting schedule and settings

8am light turn on and start ramping
9am full lights
7pm lights begin to dim
8pm lights shut off. Blues at 5 percent
12am blues shut off

Ammonia is <0.15
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 1.0
Ph 8.075
Phosphate: 0.015

Im thinking about lowering white and pink down to 40 percent but idk what to do.

 

[Matt L]

That may be new growth.

 

[Rooles]

That may be new growth.

Oh wow. Ill keep an eye on it. How do i make sure it is growth and not bleaching?

 

[Dburr1014]

Hello!

I noticed today the tips of my iridescent pocillopora are bleaching.

What could be causing this?

Using the stock lights on my fluval flex 32.5g
Heres my lighting schedule and settings

8am light turn on and start ramping
9am full lights
7pm lights begin to dim
8pm lights shut off. Blues at 5 percent
12am blues shut off

Ammonia is <0.15
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 1.0
Ph 8.075
Phosphate: 0.015

Im thinking about lowering white and pink down to 40 percent but idk what to do.

Looks like growth to me too.
Those green ones will spawn all over the tank. Just be aware. I mean all over, hundreds of babies.

 

[Rooles]

Looks like growth to me too.
Those green ones will spawn all over the tank. Just be aware. I mean all over, hundreds of babies.

Oh snaps. Think i should take it out?

 

[Dburr1014]

Oh snaps. Think i should take it out?

That is entirely up to you.

My story:
Bought a frag years ago. Read the stories of spawning, ignored them. The frag got big, real big. Saw some babies, few here and there. Ripped out the main colony, killed the babies. Where the colony was still grew. Tried to kill it a few times. Still growing. Rubber banded a glove on it for 2 months, it's still growing even after being completly bleached out by the glove.

 

[Rooles]

That is entirely up to you.

My story:
Bought a frag years ago. Read the stories of spawning, ignored them. The frag got big, real big. Saw some babies, few here and there. Ripped out the main colony, killed the babies. Where the colony was still grew. Tried to kill it a few times. Still growing. Rubber banded a glove on it for 2 months, it's still growing even after being completly bleached out by the glove.

Holy smokes. Yeah im yanking it out