Show your Walt Disney and tell use your lights/nutrient levels.

Biglurr54 · Apr 19, 2020

I have a very large green Walt Disney colony and I always wrestle with the colors. It always had beautiful colors just not what Salt Disney typically looks like. I have no orange/gold to mine. I have bought 2 frags that were the expected color and glued them on tiles with frags of my colony and within a week or two, they look identical to my colony! Is it my lights? Or my stupid high nutrients, or something completely different?

Here's what I say we do: a pick of your Walt Disney colony. Do one in white light and one in blue. Then post with it what you lights are and what your nutrients are.

Here's mine!
Daylight

Blue LEDs

Lights are 400w halide (radium)
Diy royal blue, uv, and true violet Led bars
Nitrate 25
Po4 0.32

Little_Red_Ryan_Hood · Apr 19, 2020

It looks like you have healthy and happy corals. Acropora are notorious for changing colors from tank to tank. I don't have any pictures of mine. It is still a small frag but it is mostly gold with a little green and a little blue and purple on the branches.

I run 250 watt metal halide with 14k Phoenix de bulb.

I think the WD looks best under LED.

bobby.w.hodges · Apr 19, 2020

Nitrate 10
Phosphate 0.08

Radions, t5 blue plus, reefbite xho

Yours looks good, better than mine.

X-37B · Apr 19, 2020

I run 6b+ 6c+ T5's.
Hard to get a good pic but this is 4 months growth from a nub.
Mostly green with some yellow. Can only take pic with both on.
Lfs I got it from has more yellow but no purple tips and they run radions heavy on the blue with b+ too.
My parameters
120 with 40 sump
1.026
78°F
Alk 8
Cal 470
Mag 1350
Po4 .02-.06
No3 1-2
10 fish feed 3-4 times a day.
Someday mine will look like the above pics lol.
Just took this one as it was the size of a pencil eraser whwn I pit it where it resides now.

esther · Apr 19, 2020

Biglurr54 said:
I have a very large green Walt Disney colony and I always wrestle with the colors. It always had beautiful colors just not what Salt Disney typically looks like. I have no orange/gold to mine. I have bought 2 frags that were the expected color and glued them on tiles with frags of my colony and within a week or two, they look identical to my colony! Is it my lights? Or my stupid high nutrients, or something completely different?

Here's what I say we do: a pick of your Walt Disney colony. Do one in white light and one in blue. Then post with it what you lights are and what your nutrients are.

Here's mine!
Daylight

Blue LEDs

Lights are 400w halide (radium)
Diy royal blue, uv, and true violet Led bars
Nitrate 25
Po4 0.32

Send me a piece and I’ll take a pic of it in my tank.

Charlie’s Frags · Apr 19, 2020

No3 between 10 and 25
Po4 0.15-0.25

bobby.w.hodges · Apr 19, 2020

Chaswood79 said:
No3 between 10 and 25
Po4 0.15-0.25

What's the beauty to the left?

Saltyreef · Apr 19, 2020

bobby.w.hodges said:
What's the beauty to the left?

$25 on vivid or matt v......
Lol

Tom Blevins · Apr 19, 2020

S B B Corals piece I believe, Nice!

Biglurr54 · Apr 19, 2020

Little_Red_Ryan_Hood said:
It looks like you have healthy and happy corals. Acropora are notorious for changing colors from tank to tank. I don't have any pictures of mine. It is still a small frag but it is mostly gold with a little green and a little blue and purple on the branches.

I run 250 watt metal halide with 14k Phoenix de bulb.

I think the WD looks best under LED.

Everything is happy and healthy. I'm looking to get some more whole out of it. I put a frag under an old 150w Phoenix bulb but it wasn't working out. I switched to a led I built for that area and the wd stayed green. I would love to see yours under the pheonix bulb.