Birdnest

[Ksturg]

Ok so I’ve had this coral for about 6 months now when I first got it the polyps were a purple color. Now just the top little section is purple and the rest is white. Do I have it too far up in the tank? The light is an AI SOL and is 24 inches from the top of the water the top of the coral is about 12 inches below the surface. They look purple or blue in the pic but it’s not. Any suggestions?

 

[tzabor10]

What is your calcium and alkinity at? Tank looks new.

 

[Reeferbadness]

Def not happy. Could be any number of things - parameters, salinity, flow, too much/little light.

 

[ryanjohn1]

I’d put a slice of pizza as a bet it’s not enough light. I’ve got one under hd32’s high up and it loves it. Plus young looking tank.

 

[Reeferbadness]

Birdnest coral tends to grow fast but also die off fast. You may have to frag what's left if things keep going downhill. Def check chemistry/salinty/flow/lights (par) and see if you can work out what's going on

 

[Ksturg]

What is your calcium and alkinity at? Tank

 

[Ksturg]

Why do you guys suggest that it’s a young tank?

 

[ryanjohn1]

Rock is all mostly bright white. Non of the other coral has grown off frag plugs. Zero buildup of anything on power heads. No visible crabs snails or asterina star fish.

 

[Ksturg]

So tank is a year old so what looks like new rock is just it being clean. Power heads and return pump were taken apart and cleaned about 2 weeks ago. I have 0 clean up crew along with 0 algae. Some of the coral I got just a few days ago. I run rowaphos and carbon both in reactors. The bird nest is all open just the fuzz looks like biter than it did.

Parameters
Salt 1.025
Temp 78
Cal 380 bit on the low side
Alk 10
Phos .03
Mag 900 pretty low

I guess I could do a water change to bring those levels up

 

[VintageReefer]

The green birds nest at the top of this picture is in 300 par at peak hours for 5 hours a day. Rest of the day/night it’s around 200 par. The shelf it’s sitting on is 18” below my photon 48 led

 

[Ksturg]

The green birds nest at the top of this picture is in 300 par at peak hours for 5 hours a day. Rest of the day/night it’s around 200 par. The shelf it’s sitting on is 18” below my photon 48 led

What lights are you using? And what percent do
You have your whites? My whites were at 40% for 4.5 hours I just turned them down to 28%

 

[VintageReefer]

Reefbreeders photon 48

If it compares at all, my blues and violets are 45% and at peak white is added in at 10-15%

 

[PapaFishRocks]

I recently learned the hard way about proper PAR. I honestly thought my tank was too bright. Got a PAR meter and found out, I was grossly under-lighting the tank. Bye-bye to my wall hammer.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Ok so I’ve had this coral for about 6 months now when I first got it the polyps were a purple color. Now just the top little section is purple and the rest is white. Do I have it too far up in the tank? The light is an AI SOL and is 24 inches from the top of the water the top of the coral is about 12 inches below the surface. They look purple or blue in the pic but it’s not. Any suggestions?

The light may be insufficient for this size tank and light appears to be an Ai prime and not SOL
Other factors would be low calcium or high alk
Elevated phos level
change in salinity, temperature and salt mixes.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

The light may be insufficient for this size tank and light appears to be an Ai prime and not SOL
Other factors would be low calcium or high alk
Elevated phos level
change in salinity, temperature and salt mixes.

They make a new prime called the SOL.

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Are you sure that’s birdsnest?

Looks like stylophora.

And I don’t agree with the young part.

My tank is barely over 100 days old.

Stylo is completely encrusted to the rock.

Green slimer has started basing and has grown.

T5 lighting blows out the iPhone camera bad.

 

[vetteguy53081]

They make a new prime called the SOL.

Hmm, was not aware and this is a stylo, not birdsnest. Birdnest are generally green whereas stylo are purple, green and even orange

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

Hmm, was not aware and this is a stylo, not birdsnest. Birdnest are generally green whereas stylo are purple, green and even orange

You’re saying OPs is a stylo right?

 

[JustAnotherNanoTank]

This is my bird of paradise birdsnest next to my purple stylo.

Keep in mind the bird of paradise is kind of the fattest/thickest of the birdsnest corals. Atleast from what I’ve seen.

 

[vetteguy53081]

You’re saying OPs is a stylo right?

yes