Sps too much light or no?

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a few of my sps are getting a little white on the base. I know is not STN

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I doubt it's light related unless you've made big changes recently.

Has anything else changed recently? Do you know your current ALK levels and have they moved?
 
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My alk 7-7.6 goes up and down. Can that be it? It had drop ones to 6.5 because my doser broke.
 

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Do you have a PAR meter? No other way really to know if there is too much light. It could be quality instead of quantity. This is why LEDs can burn coral at 400 PAR where the same coral can take over 1000 PAR from mercury based light sources. It also could be a myriad of other things - a full set of tank parameters could help.

I would not sweat a swing like that... no big deal.
 

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I’d be checking my salinity and everything used to measure it if my corals started to look like that
 

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Issues in lighting typically results in bleaching not stn/rtn. My best guess is it is either problem in parameters or pest.
 

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0,00 phosphate??
Otherwise,been there and couple bleaching acros from the base.
 

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