Coral discoloration sps

[Scubapro13]

This is a image of my montipora. The middle of it has started to loose it's color. Not sure exactly what is causing it. I suspect it's from me recently starting to run carbon again. If that's the case will my color come back. Turned my light down to make up for the clearer water

Tank: jbj 30
Parameter are all good
Calcium 420
Alk 9
Nitrates and phosphates are good
Magnesium 1500

Light is a ai prime set at 14000k 50 percent that is at peak for 6 hours

Just started using the zeovit nano pack and is seeming to help with coloration in my tank but is to early to tell. Any suggestions I'm all ears

 

[coral-boss]

What other things do you dose? B ionic? Kalkwasser? Trace elements? I had a similar issue with my red monti the past few months. I use b-ionic for dosing. I started dosing the Red Sea coral color program at half the recommended dose being ESV already has trace elements and the color came back significantly. I don't want to jynx it but maybe look into it. I was always skeptical regarding trace elements but maybe there really is something to it. Just a word of advice is any changes you make, do them one at a time. You don't want to change to many things a once because then you won't know what works or what doesn't.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

if the carbon is aggressive like rox yea maybe striped to many organics. By eye I'd guess not enough No and Po.
perhaps alk but the coralline looks good.

 

[Scubapro13]

What other things do you dose? B ionic? Kalkwasser? Trace elements? I had a similar issue with my red monti the past few months. I use b-ionic for dosing. I started dosing the Red Sea coral color program at half the recommended dose being ESV already has trace elements and the color came back significantly. I don't want to jynx it but maybe look into it. I was always skeptical regarding trace elements but maybe there really is something to it. Just a word of advice is any changes you make, do them one at a time. You don't want to change to many things a once because then you won't know what works or what doesn't.

I'm dosing nothing else. Just doing my weekly water change and zeovit stuff

 

[Scubapro13]

I am also running a protein skimmer and gfo mixed with the carbon. I was battling hair algae and a little cyano for awhile. I have very good house keeping with my tanks but have always struggled keeping my hard corals long term

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

I am also running a protein skimmer and gfo mixed with the carbon. I was battling hair algae and a little cyano for awhile. I have very good house keeping with my tanks but have always struggled keeping my hard corals long term

Yea that's the tougg balance. Not feeding the algae and feeding the corals.
If the nutrients are down enough zap the algae and boost the CUC.

 

[Scubapro13]

Think it would be good to kill the carbon and gfo. Seems like this happen after I just restarted running the carbon and swith the gfo out at the same time.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Think it would be good to kill the carbon and gfo. Seems like this happen after I just restarted running the carbon and swith the gfo out at the same time.

IMO most carbon is pretty passive depending on how it's used. In a reactor I probably pulls out some organics pretty hard. So yea doing both might have made it mad.
I'd look at the numbers as it sits and then take the gfo offline and see where it goes. Even overnight will tell you. 24 hrs def will.

IMO IME a lot of folks try to keep nutrients down to stop algae and that's true but the key is to get it and keep it out of the system.
The coral and the algae eat the same food.

I stripped the nutrients to undetectable this year and in my case the zoas let me know first. I still had prettt good doc so o think maybe that's whey my montis did ok.

I run carbon passively in a bag on the return pump. And I don't ever run gfo.
Mainly because I had such weird things happen Esp on low nutrients.

Every tanks a bit different.

 

[authentic]

Take it out and dip it to make sure it's not monti eating nudibranch

 

[Joseph Dib]

I believe to be bromine deficiency

 

[Scubapro13]

Dipped and quarantined before putting in. Have had this for a long time. It's a frag from my other tank

 

[MichaelsReef]

I would suspect red flatworms. If they are concentrated in the middle , they will block out the light. Shine an LED light on the montipora and look for dark red ovals or circles. You can also easily blow them off with a turkey Baster but will need to treat the tank with flatworm exit.

 

[TRPlacek]

This is a image of my montipora. The middle of it has started to loose it's color. Not sure exactly what is causing it. I suspect it's from me recently starting to run carbon again. If that's the case will my color come back. Turned my light down to make up for the clearer water

Tank: jbj 30
Parameter are all good
Calcium 420
Alk 9
Nitrates and phosphates are good
Magnesium 1500

Light is a ai prime set at 14000k 50 percent that is at peak for 6 hours

Just started using the zeovit nano pack and is seeming to help with coloration in my tank but is to early to tell. Any suggestions I'm all ears

This happened to my red monti twice along with other coral. It turned out to be lack of nutrients in my tank. I pulled gfo, carbon, marine pure and filter socks offline and it took a while for my nutrients to balance out but the red monti along with other coral in my tank have regained color and have been growing great. not to mention eliminating all those things have taken a large work load off of maintenance!

 

[Scubapro13]

No signs of any parasites. Highly doubt any parasite issues. Pretty sure it's to low on nutrients. With running Carbon, gfo, skimmer and filter floss with pretty minimal feeding and a pretty large clean up crew I'm sure it's low nutrients. Going to take carbon and gfo offline and go from there.