Acro growth but color loss

[Coral Newbie]

was wondering what everyone’s thought were on this. I have ok growth. The tale tail signs of white rim around the base of the acro but are loosing the vibrant colors in some of my corals. Yellows fade out, same with pinks. Lighting is based of off WWC radion schedule from BRS videos

Tank Info. Just tested today
Alk 12
Calc 490 (I know it’s a little high)
mag 1440
Nitrate 1
Phos .08

 

[zack801]

Alk might be too high. Lighting might be too intense as well

 

[Mal11224]

Alk does seem to be a little high. Have you tested your par levels? 12 Dkh will give you growth but you could be lacking minerals/supplements. Not sure if you add any.

 

[Stickboy15]

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[Coral Newbie]

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[Coral Newbie]

Alk does seem to be a little high. Have you tested your par levels? 12 Dkh will give you growth but you could be lacking minerals/supplements. Not sure if you add any.

325 center of the tank 3/4 up

 

[Coral Newbie]

I use redsea pro 30% water change over 2 days. ( I have a DOS)

I alternate feeding between reef chili, acro power, and benepets

 

[Coral Newbie]

Anything green doing good

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Try bumping up nitrates to 5-10 ppm. Let your alk drop a little, 8-9 dkh, cal will come down with alk if you slow dosing down.

 

[zack801]

Maybe slow down on those water changes. What does Red Sea mix to? I would let that alk come down to 8-9 and then start matching your water change water to that

 

[zack801]

I’d get some sodium nitrate (loudwolf brand is food grade) and find an online calculator to dose some nitrates. I’m usually 2-5ppm. What test kits are you using for phosphate and nitrate? Everything other than somewhat higher alk seem inline but light colored acros seems like high light or low nutrients. 325par isn’t what I’d consider super high light so I’d double check phos/nitrate levels. Hannah ULR phosphate is good

 

[Coral Newbie]

I’d get some sodium nitrate (loudwolf brand is food grade) and find an online calculator to dose some nitrates. I’m usually 2-5ppm. What test kits are you using for phosphate and nitrate? Everything other than somewhat higher alk seem inline but light colored acros seems like high light or low nutrients. 325par isn’t what I’d consider super high light so I’d double check phos/nitrate levels. Hannah ULR phosphate is good

I use Hannah ULR for phosphate and nyos for nitrate. The redsea coral pro mix’s specially between 11.5 and 12. I test alk calc nitrate phosphate every other day so the numbers are definitely right. I am trying to hold all the numbers I provide so nothing is out of wack by accident. Those numbers are what Redsea recommends for their mixed reef tank. Which is what the redsea pro coral salt is for.

Sounds like the group is indicating that bump the nitrates up and drop the alk a bit.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

High alk is why I stopped using Red Sea salt.