Chillipepper monti and Purple digi

[Squadir]

Anyone have these corals willing to share your placement and lighting? Also is the chillipepper an encrusting or plating monti?
I have both of these mid-tank, the green on the chillipepper seems a bit dull and the purple digi has a lilac base with brown polyps, the polyps were originally purple. Do you think more light will help them to color up?? .
Salinity 1.025
PO4 undetectable
NO3 undetectable
Calc 480
Alk 11
Mag 1400
PH 8.0-8.3

 

[twilliard]

How are you testing po4.
also may have abundance of organics
Might want to lower the alk a tad

 

[Squadir]

I use API to test PO4 (for now) will prob switch over to red sea soon
around 9 dkh should be fine?

 

[twilliard]

9 is where my tank sits.
the red sea algae control test kit is my preference in between triton testing

 

[Squadir]

ok cool, i'll cut my dosing down to reach 9 then maintain it there.
you said that there may be other organics, what kind of organics did you mean?
I also have some other sps that coloring up nicely and have great polyp extension: neon birdsnest, 2 types of pink birdsnest, bird of paradise, red planet, Hawkins enchinata, green and orange monti caps, meteor shower, jingle bell monti, orange digi, green tip dragon (I think that's the name), Oregon tort, green slimer, purple birdsnest, another small acro frag (not sure of name), cotton candy acro and green undata. They all seem to be doing fine and colors are coming in nicely.
I'm pretty sure patience is the key here, just want to make sure I'm giving them what they need
oh any idea if the chilipepper is plating or encrusting?

 

[rossco]

Purple Digi in my experience needs intense light to turn bright purple.
If the Chile Pepper is correctly identified it is encrusting, and medium light is fine.

Chile Pepper in a friends tank:

Seasons Greetings: (on the right)

 

[Squadir]

It is indeed chillipepper, thank you for the pics, that confirmed it . mine looks like that, idk why I was thinking that it was supposed to be a brighter green......
i'll try moving the purple digi closer up to the lights and see how it goes from there.

 

[Squadir]

so I've noticed my chillipepper getting white-ish and looks like the circled part of your pic that I attached, is it that the entire frag is growing causing it to look like that or could it be lack of/too much light? frag is about 1.25 inch circle

as for the purple digi, it was moved up to a high point and is showing signs of coloring up, polyps are not as brown as they were

 

[Beerman]

Thanks for the update. I've always had my purple digi low like I have all my other digi and it's never been purple. Guess I will try higher.

 

[rossco]

so I've noticed my chillipepper getting white-ish and looks like the circled part of your pic that I attached, is it that the entire frag is growing causing it to look like that or could it be lack of/too much light? frag is about 1.25 inch circle

as for the purple digi, it was moved up to a high point and is showing signs of coloring up, polyps are not as brown as they were

The growing area is a little lighter in color , sounds like it's in a good location.​

 

[eja99]

so I've noticed my chillipepper getting white-ish and looks like the circled part of your pic that I attached, is it that the entire frag is growing causing it to look like that or could it be lack of/too much light? frag is about 1.25 inch circle

as for the purple digi, it was moved up to a high point and is showing signs of coloring up, polyps are not as brown as they were

It likely is white from new growth but might also turn white as it battles/grows over the zoas. I have a cap that is a bit white where it is doing the same (fighting other corals).