bleaching monti cap?

[maddy999]

This fision red/green monti cap has been slowly losing its color, what is going on??
its hard to see in picture but i assure you its losing color / bleaching
amonnia / nitrite 0
nitrates 3 ppm
salinity 1.025

alk 9.5
calc 500
redsea led50 35% blues 15% whites

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

probably not enough information for someone to adequately diagnose. So i am going to knock out the general questions

1. what are your phosphate readings
2. What are your par readings
3. How old is your tank
4. Do you have good colonies of Coraline algae going (this is probably my priority question..if you can consistently grow coraline, you can grow monties.)
5. What is your PH running?

You will most like get a few 'your alk and ca' are high.

 

[Dburr1014]

This fision red/green monti cap has been slowly losing its color, what is going on??
its hard to see in picture but i assure you its losing color / bleaching
amonnia / nitrite 0
nitrates 3 ppm
salinity 1.025

alk 9.5
calc 500
redsea led50 35% blues 15% whites

Also, better pics under a white light.

How close is that hammer?

 

[Mr. Mojo Rising]

it kind of looks like the monti is lower than the hammer (or is it just the angle?), that shouldn't be, the monti should be on the highest rock in the tank. high light and high flow

 

[maddy999]

This fision red/green monti cap has been slowly losing its color, what is going on??
its hard to see in picture but i assure you its losing color / bleaching
amonnia / nitrite 0
nitrates 3 ppm
salinity 1.025

alk 9.5
calc 500
redsea led50 35% blues 15% whites

probably not enough information for someone to adequately diagnose. So i am going to knock out the general questions

1. what are your phosphate readings
2. What are your par readings
3. How old is your tank
4. Do you have good colonies of Coraline algae going (this is probably my priority question..if you can consistently grow coraline, you can grow monties.)
5. What is your PH running?

You will most like get a few 'your alk and ca' are high.

tank is 10 months old
par is ?
coraline algae starting to cover/ take over back glass
phosphate .02

 

[BroccoliFarmer]

tank is 10 months old
par is ?
coraline algae starting to cover/ take over back glass
phosphate .02

Par is your light readings. How much photosynthetically available radiation is reaching your corals.

 

[jimmypencil]

Did you figure this out? How is the Monti?

 

[maddy999]

Did you figure this out? How is the Monti?

completely bleached and died haha, same with any other SPS i had. Basically the system was just too new for sps. That was about a year ago, and i’m housing undata, digitata, and other easy sps with ease now!