Need a little help

[sundog101]

I've got 2 sps pieces that have gotten a lot paler over the past month or so. They are not looking too well.
(Pics taken about 2 months apart)

Lights: 2 kessil a360 at 60%
Flow: gyre 130 and mp 10
NO3- 0
PO4- 0
Ca- 450
Alk- 8
Mag- 1350

I've had both pieces for three months and they have been fine. Nothing has changed really.

I'm working on getting N and P up. I know 0 isn't ideal, but will that actually cause bleaching?

Thanks!

 

[Jason mack]

You need a little no3 and po4 for sps .. so its slowly dying ..Your sps is starving

 

[PlanB]

looks like a new tank? If so, it may just be too early to introduce sps.

 

[sundog101]

looks like a new tank? If so, it may just be too early to introduce sps.

The tank is 9 months old, and parameters have been fairly stable.

As for nutrients, I've been trying to raise them. That's what I suspected the problem was/is. There was no drastic change in color, just slowly getting more pale.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

you can lower the lights a bit as well IMO. Are you running chemical filtration?

 

[sundog101]

you can lower the lights a bit as well IMO. Are you running chemical filtration?

Alright.
Protein skimmer and ATS for filtration

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Crazy. Is the ats lit 24 hrs ?

 

[sundog101]

Crazy. Is the ats lit 24 hrs ?

I had it at 18hrs but cut back to 12 to try to get some nutrients in the water