Coral color up

Lowered my leds to 50%blues and 30%whites. Also changes the time frame so that the whites only stay on for 2 hours starting at 1130 and full spectrum on at 130.


I've read in another thread on reef central that nitrate dosing as some affects on phosphates, do you know of this being true? It also read that some tanks thrive on high nitrates and low phosphates. It was called where should i keep nitrates for the best sps colors. Reason for the question comes after when I Dosed pkno3 phosphates went to 0.0 but nitrates shot up to 25!! Corals look great for some reason, PE on all corals, fluorescent pigment on coral skin although green it's still something happening. Nothing is receding or showing disapproval (at the moment) even my clam and red linkia starfish are looking good.

Still I feed heavy in hopes of raising phosphates to something detectable.
Haven't Dosed any amino acids since the beginning of this post. As far as growth goes I couldn't tell you since I stare at my tank for about 4 hours after work everyday hahaha

IMO, when you start dosing nitrate you will need to up phosphates as well, because the corals will use it up. They seem to require more NO3, but they need PO4 too. The sweet spot for my tank is NO3 between 2-5 ppm and PO4 around 0.2 ppm (not a typo). Also SR and K are important for color, IME.
 
It sounds like red Sea color up program is needed however I'm trying to accomplish I color without dosing everything under the sun hahaha.... feeding more for phosphates will be a sure fire way so I'll stick to that for some time and see what results I get. I'm narrowing down the cause of pale colors so im sure I'll Crack the reef code soon and get to the magic Sweet spot for my tank.
 
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Update on corals... color coming back and growth is good. Only new obstacle that has started is a white Web like string on the tip of some new growth on a few corals. Adjusted flow but that's it. Feels like frags grow to a point than something causes a downfall.
 

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