Couple brown sps with icp test.

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I have a 40 breeder, mixed reef, but predominate sps. I have had a rainbow montipora and a green mili for about 2 months and its become brown. From my reading on this forum the usual things that cause browning in sps is lack of light or really high nutrients. I only have a aquatic life 4 bulb t5 fixture ati bulbs and I knew that could be not enough light for some sps.
These are the 2 corals.
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This was my ati test results from 2 days ago
http://lab.atiaquaristik.com/share/d554deb04477dae0d793

With xmas being around the corner wanted to see what the consensus was, if I should get a more powerful light fixture, or would maybe just adding like a reef brite led strip could possible solve my issue. Thanks!





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In my opinion they haven’t been in there long enough to color up. Some more light probably would not hurt . How many hours are you running your lights ?
 
2 b+ for 8 hours a day then full light of 2b+ and 2c+ for 6 hours.
Seems like a good lighting schedule to me I would just give them some time to color up.
I had a monti almost a year before it started to color up.
 

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