Zoas and Palys losing color??

[Sandroni]

Hi everyone, I got 2 palythoa, 1 mushroom, and 1 utter chaos (I think) frags about 2 weeks ago. I did a water change yesterday because I had some algae growing on the back wall and the salinity was off. It was 1.020 and now at 1.026. I was thinking that, the salinity was the reason but I also read that it could be my lighting? and they can be getting too much light?

 

[Highgrade]

What type of lighting?

 

[Sandroni]

What type of lighting?

Kessil A80

 

[Highgrade]

Kessil A80

Do you run a controller? If so what is your schedule and what size is your tank?

 

[Sandroni]

Do you run a controller? If so what is your schedule and what size is your tank?

I do not have a controller but it is on my list next. I run my lights from 9am to 9pm and I have a 14 biocube. I'm not really sure what color they should stay on, I basically run blue.

 

[Highgrade]

I do not have a controller but it is on my list next. I run my lights from 9am to 9pm and I have a 14 biocube. I'm not really sure what color they should stay on, I basically run blue.

I find my Zoas prefer the bluer spectrum from my A160WE and 360WE. I don't run them over 45% on the intensity and I run them for 12 hours- ramping up and down. Issue could be salinity related but is seems possibly more like low nutrient related or they're not liking the intensity of the light. What is your N03 and P04 at? How's your bio load?

 

[GoVols]

Other than your water change have you done anything that strip nutrients out of the water column, Like adding ROX carbon.

 

[Sandroni]

Other than your water change have you done anything that strip nutrients out of the water column, Like adding ROX carbon.

Nope I don't add anything.

 

[Sandroni]

I find my Zoas prefer the bluer spectrum from my A160WE and 360WE. I don't run them over 45% on the intensity and I run them for 12 hours- ramping up and down. Issue could be salinity related but is seems possibly more like low nutrient related or they're not liking the intensity of the light. What is your N03 and P04 at? How's your bio load?

Bio load is light, NO3 0 and so is PO4. They do seem to like the blues more.

 

[GoVols]

Bio load is light, NO3 0 and so is PO4. They do seem to like the blues more.

I'm running 4- A80' and my corals love them. At full daylight I'm on the blue side of 25% and 100% intensity but I'm running them on a big tank as a led/t5 hybird.
Zero is not good.
This is what you want to shoot for:
Phos. = .03 - .05 ppm
Nitrates = .3 - .5 ppm

 

[Highgrade]

Bio load is light, NO3 0 and so is PO4. They do seem to like the blues more.

May want to bump up your N03 and P04 a bit. Z/Ps like dirtier water.

 

[GoVols]

Z/Ps like dirtier water.

Yes they do. :)

Feeding your fish more flake food and more often will help.

 

[Sandroni]

Yes they do. :)

Feeding your fish more flake food and more often will help.

Will do, I feed my baby frostbites every day, they are so small that I usually don't have to feed much, put I just fed them and added extra pellets in the tank. Thanks for the help, beautiful tank btw.