SPS Coloring up Green

[Brogratz]

I thought I would post my experience, with a fairly recent issue I was having where. All of my SPS including shortcake's etc were turning Neon Green. I checked water parameters, browsed all of the forums here and Reef Central.

I tried parameters such as potassium, strontium etc. And there were no changes after months of running the trace elements. So I noticed my friend was getting better colors out of some of the same SPS such as red planet. I decided to move my lighting strength closer to his, and within 2 weeks my german blue digi, bubble gum digi, and red planet have made drastic changes in their colors.

I know as well as any, we will all take this with a grain of salt. But if any of you have SPS that are turning Neon Green. And you are running a AI Hydra 26 HD or Multiple, I can share with you my distance off the tank and schedule I run, it has made the biggest difference.

 

[Mattrg02]

I've got this light. I wouldn't say any corals are going green, but some are getting light colored despite plenty of nitrates.

How strong are you running your lights? Colors? Distance?

 

[Robink]

Some of mine are green too. I have radions.

 

[Brogratz]

I've got this light. I wouldn't say any corals are going green, but some are getting light colored despite plenty of nitrates.

How strong are you running your lights? Colors? Distance?

This is my old settings:

Lights have remained at 18"
Lighting Schedule: 12pm-10:30pm
Cool Whites: 45% for 4 hours
UV: 80% Full Time
Violet, Royal Blue, Deep Blue: 100% Full Time
Red/Green: 0%

New Settings:
Lights height: 18"
Lighting Schedule: 12pm-10:30pm
Cool Whites: 50% for 5 hours
UV: 100% Full Time
Violet: 107% Full
Royal Blue: 140% Full
Deep Blue: 116% Full Time
Red/Green: 0%

I tried to increase it more as my friend did have it higher for UV and Violet up as high as they can go. But some of my corals started to bleach even with small increments. So I would say shoot for uv, violet, royal blue, deep blue at full but do it in small increments give it about two weeks between each small change. I hope it helps let me know what happens if you do make changes.

 

[Brogratz]

Some of mine are green too. I have radions.

My other friend has radions, and he added retrofit t5's and is getting nice colors. I could ask him what he has his settings set to on the main lights if you want?

 

[Robink]

that would be great!!!

 

[Brogratz]

that would be great!!!

I will ask him, he's on here too so I may just have him post. Give me a bit will try to have details for you tonight or tomorrow.

 

[Robink]

Ok, great!! Going to bed...:confused:

 

[Brogratz]

Ok, great!! Going to bed...:confused:

He just run's a modified radiant color with the blue plus t5s if that helps at all?

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Im guessing with the more blue settings you are targeting a specific zoox clade. in this case its green. So change the color.

IMO set all the stuff to full, depending on the livestock 14000k to 20000kelvin. 20k is pretty blue.....then set your ramp. Keep a morning blue and a night blue cuz its cool, but use the fullest spectrum those light provide. As far as intensity peaks, use either a par meter or a lux meter to test.

at a blue to white ratio of 45% and 100% your running in or around 30k kelvin:eek:. or more id guess. thus the overly targeted zooox clade and resulting green.

this guy knows more than i do.
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/dr-joshi’s-500-gallon-sps-dominated-mixed-reef.2/

 

[Brogratz]

Im guessing with the more blue settings you are targeting a specific zoox clade. in this case its green. So change the color.

IMO set all the stuff to full, depending on the livestock 14000k to 20000kelvin. 20k is pretty blue.....then set your ramp. Keep a morning blue and a night blue cuz its cool, but use the fullest spectrum those light provide. As far as intensity peaks, use either a par meter or a lux meter to test.

at a blue to white ratio of 45% and 100% your running in or around 30k kelvin:eek:. or more id guess. thus the overly targeted zooox clade and resulting green.

this guy knows more than i do.
https://www.reef2reef.com/ams/dr-joshi’s-500-gallon-sps-dominated-mixed-reef.2/

Makes sense to me, thanks for sharing the link! Yeah I found the sweet spot that's getting me a great color range now. The problem was people thought it was parameters missing. But it was the lighting causing the issue. And that's what I was mainly trying to share, since this didn't seem to be covered much. In hopes it would bring up conversations like this.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Makes sense to me, thanks for sharing the link! Yeah I found the sweet spot that's getting me a great color range now. The problem was people thought it was parameters missing. But it was the lighting causing the issue. And that's what I was mainly trying to share, since this didn't seem to be covered much. In hopes it would bring up conversations like this.

No sweat. I like light.