Birds Nest help!

[NanaReefer]

Its growing, full & partial pe but color totally sucks
40B/20L sump
Alk=9.1
Ca=440
Mag=1400
Ph=8.1
Temp=79.9
Light=LED's. Whites@10%max, Blues@45%max ramping up/down.

 

[gtbarsi]

Temp seems high to me, others have noted better color at lower temps.
I do not know what you have for a light but it seems to me that you may want to increase your whites a little.
Can you get some PAR readings at the site of this coral? You may want to increase the lighting % across the board.

If you do make changes make them really slow and only one at a time. Slow and controlled changes always provide the best results...

 

[jzaso]

I would increase light %-looks like a healthy green seritopora to me, not sure what color your expecting from it -as far as temp I keep all my tanks 80/82F
are you feeding? may help color a bit

 

[jzaso]

sorry double post

 

[NanaReefer]

I'm not concerned with my temp or parameters. I feed Reef Frenzy 2x daily in small amounts. Tried Reef Roids but it caused me some type of weird issue on my SB, covered it in a rusty colored crap.
I do not have access to a par meter. Reason my whites are so low, any % above 15-20 causes my LPS to look very washed out. But I will try and up the % on the blues.
Thank you for the replys. I'd love to get a handle on this. Some day I would like to add more SPS to my tank

 

[jzaso]

I switched to leds five months ago on established 90 sps 2 165w dimmable units 12"above tank 55%colored 75%blue now most love it and pop some do not -feel your pain of dialing in leds

 

[NanaReefer]

I switched about 5 months ago also-lol. ALL my LPS are doing wonderfully and for 3+yrs were kept under T5HO. I'm getting great growth too! But the BN is really testing my abundance of patience! Ugh!!

 

[Touring]

Temp seems high to me..

Lol, okay....

 

[mike007]

You might try testing your potassium level. But from the pics It looks okay to me.

 

[NanaReefer]

Temp seems high to me, others have noted better color at lower temps.
I do not know what you have for a light but it seems to me that you may want to increase your whites a little.
Can you get some PAR readings at the site of this coral? You may want to increase the lighting % across the board.

If you do make changes make them really slow and only one at a time. Slow and controlled changes always provide the best results...

Cooler Water/Better Colors Thread? Who are "others"? Anyone notable? This has not been proven and so far seems to be based on just a couple opinions.

 

[NanaReefer]

You might try testing your potassium level. But from the pics It looks okay to me.

Potassium level? There's a test for that? Lol

 

[Chpaige]

It looks good to me. My tank prefers a little higher Alk. However if it isn't broke, don't attempt to fix it. All tanks are different, what works for me, isn't always another persons solution, and vice versa.

 

[Chpaige]

Also, how is the water flow, they love flow.

 

[NanaReefer]

1 MP10 & 1 WP10 and about 396gph return. PH on each end of tank, BN in the middle.

 

[mfinn]

Depending on how long the whites have been at 10%, I might consider bumping that up 5%

 

[JFrar]

i don't think it looks bad where i'd be willing to change light %'s or chemical levels.....color looks normal...i kinda see what ur talking about with PE. I have a decent size colony birds nest and i recently have moved it several times, and the PE is very flaky on me right now...so im not touching it and leaving it alone, im sure in a couple weeks it will look fine