Cooked Coral Anyone?

DraggingTail · Nov 24, 2019

DEWreefing said:
Having that high of alk and low nutrients I'm surprised you have not burnt the tips on your arco. 6" below my water line I have 680 par your corals will pale out but they will adjust. Do you dose aminos?

I do. I dose red Sea A+B

DraggingTail · Nov 24, 2019

I took my chaeto out. That should bump it up but I don't want gha

Question. Will my chaeto stay alive in new salt water?

inktomi · Nov 24, 2019

The coral can probably take that amount of light for sure, but it takes time for them to acclimate to it. They'll probably look worse before they look better - and really not _all_ types of coral can ever fully acclimate to 900+ PAR. Smooth skin acros like to be in lower light, for instance, versus something like a milliepora which will be happy in 1000 PAR.

My A. millepora is at 634 par right here. That's not 900, sure, but it's also not the 300-400 that most people say is great.

DraggingTail · Nov 24, 2019

inktomi said:
The coral can probably take that amount of light for sure, but it takes time for them to acclimate to it. They'll probably look worse before they look better - and really not _all_ types of coral can ever fully acclimate to 900+ PAR. Smooth skin acros like to be in lower light, for instance, versus something like a milliepora which will be happy in 1000 PAR.

My A. millepora is at 634 par right here. That's not 900, sure, but it's also not the 300-400 that most people say is great.

Your coral have much nice color. Mine looked like that at first....

inktomi · Nov 24, 2019

Well, look at the orange acro near the bottom. It's pretty light. It actually turned almost white until it started to recover (I moved it in the tank and it started to recover then). Coral takes time to adjust, and it will usually brown out until it does. Maybe just reduce the light a little bit via a diffuser or something like that and I bet you'll end up liking the light you've got in the end!

DraggingTail · Nov 24, 2019

inktomi said:
Well, look at the orange acro near the bottom. It's pretty light. It actually turned almost white until it started to recover (I moved it in the tank and it started to recover then). Coral takes time to adjust, and it will usually brown out until it does. Maybe just reduce the light a little bit via a diffuser or something like that and I bet you'll end up liking the light you've got in the end!

Do you have a MH / T5 as well?

inktomi · Nov 24, 2019

No, I use Radions and a couple Kessil's to fill in between them. I had a T5 ATI Powermodule before (which I loved) but I'm not using that at the moment. I had metal halide years ago before my current tanks, and before the powermodule.