Good Growth Pale colors

[fishnugget1]

Few fish. 3 radion g4 xr30 pro. Running AB+ sc180 gallon tank
Alk 8.3
Calcium 425
Mag 1375
Phosphate .03

Nitrates 0
I know my tank is clean.

How do I improve colorations?
Potassium 401
Iodine on target.

Dose acropower 30ml 2x week
Reef Roids

Adding fish slowly.

Any ideas on how to improve coloration.

 

[slayerhellfire]

nutrients you need a nutrient rich tank, feed more, go skimmerless, less water changes. Who care about the potassium and iodine, water changes replace that. There not good kits to monitor those parameters so don't worry about them.

 

[fishnugget1]

How do you get more nutrients

 

[slayerhellfire]

increase nutrients, go skimmerless, feed less, less water changes, don't worry about potassium and iodine there is not good kits to actually monitor those effecivly so I would not worry about those.

 

[jda]

Add some more fish if you are worried about low building blocks, but even .1n and .005p is enough to have a great looking reef. More, but not too much more can have more saturated colors, but you can lose some of the brightness and contrast... so depending on which acropora that you keep, you might like either better... to each their own on this.

Do not sweat a 0 reading on a Nitrate test kit... they are actually worse and less accurate than a K or Iodine test kit.

You probably do not want to hear this, but nearly everybody who adds T5 to their Radions reports better color.

 

[slayerhellfire]

How do you get more nutrients

pretty much what I did is less water changes , fed more and kinda just let things go in the way of cleaning. Let your tank become biologically stable.