Not trying to take over this thread but I must admit I'm following this with my ears and eyes wide open. The photos Pete Polyp posted are spot on to what I see a few corals in my tank looking like. The before ad aft are amazingly spot on! Also the comment Joe Warner made "Here in SoCal the SPS are like crayon colors". I'm big on feeding my tank. Large bio load also equals lots of fish poo. My system is top of the line, everything, but that crayon color is missing. I'm a bio pellet reactor person and my nitrates have been zero. After reading this thread, and the photo, I've decided to raise my nitrate level, easy with the reactor just reduce flow out of the reactor, and see what happens over the next month.
I've been adjusting my light levels, thinking that is what has been missing, for almost a year. Everything I read talks about the lighting and coral color. I have the vertex illumine LED's. It has all the Whites, Blues, Reds, Greens, U'v's you could ask for. So I have the light and my water is clean with all parameters textbook. It's been this way for awhile but still do not have that crayon color.
Guess I've been the true definition of an idiot for over a year, "Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result"
