Does anyone have good color on their Pikachu?

[james983]

Here is my frag. I don't see this morphing into the orange color I have seen. Anyone out there have colony they want to show off?

 

[swnoob]

I'm interested as well. I purchased a TCK Plutonium Pikachu months ago. Was a very pale yellow when I first received it. Nothing but green ever since.

 

[DereksReef77]

There's mine.

 

[swnoob]

 

[james983]

Anyone else have one they want to post? Must be more than 3 out there.

 

[DereksReef77]

I'll try to get a better pic tonight under just blues. The pick I posted yesterday was under all t5 bulbs. It is much more yellow than what I posted already.

 

[dragon99]

My frag wasn't acquired directly from TCK, but it was sold to me as a Pikachu (and I trust the source). I'll also qualify this with my SPS colors in general suck.

 

[Anirban]

Does this one qualify???

 

[swnoob]

Does this one qualify???

Mine looked just that when I first put in my tank. I have tried placing it in a few different places to try and regain its color but no luck so far.

Does yours like high light and flow?

 

[Tom Blevins]

Ours is 6" under the water line, big flow and Ocean Revives 12" over the waterline
and our Golden Angel likes the polyp's.

 

[Anirban]

Mine looked just that when I first put in my tank. I have tried placing it in a few different places to try and regain its color but no luck so far.

Does yours like high light and flow?

If you are talking about colour then low nitrate <3ppm brings the yellow bright. TCK keep them under Zeovit programme so they like ULNS system more as far the colour goes.

 

[swnoob]

If you are talking about colour then low nitrate <3ppm brings the yellow bright. TCK keep them under Zeovit programme so they like ULNS system more as far the colour goes.

I was told the same by TCK. I kept my tank at ULNS for 3-4 months and all that did is make all my other corals very pale. After losing several pieces I raised my nutrients and i haven't lost anything since.

 

[Anirban]

I was told the same by TCK. I kept my tank at ULNS for 3-4 months and all that did is make all my other corals very pale. After losing several pieces I raised my nutrients and i haven't lost anything since.

Yup, ULNS is not for weak hearts....lol....but its fine with 2ppm nitrate and 0ppm PO4.

 

[Mr V]

I have some luck with this coral. Mine have deep yellow almost identical as the Pink Floyd

Here is the Pink Floyd to compare:

 

[DereksReef77]

Grown under t5

 

[pga7602]

I have some luck with this coral. Mine have deep yellow almost identical as the Pink Floyd

Here is the Pink Floyd to compare:

Yup! Mr. V knows his stuff and it looks like that in person. The one I got from him kept its color for 2 months now. My nitrates level is 2ppm and my Phos is zero. I do dose No3.

 

[dragon99]

My Pikachu got worse, but is on the mend. Still not a bright yellow but much better in the last 3 months.

May

June

July

 

[Goslugsgo]

Nice!
Can you identify any changes you made that could contribute to the turnaround?

 

[dragon99]

More PAR mainly. I got new lights at the end of April (Mitras LX7) and have gone from ~300par at the top of the tank to ~550. I also lowered my nitrate from ~12-16 to ~5ppm now and phosphates were ~.2 and are down to .01-.02 now.

 

[nu1986]

I have some luck with this coral. Mine have deep yellow almost identical as the Pink Floyd

Here is the Pink Floyd to compare:

bro wht led u using bro? can share? look vry nice