Gracilaria Not Red

[praba775]

Hi, my gracilaria macroalgae is not red.
Salinity:1.025
Phosphate:1
Nitrate:5
Kh:9
Calcium:440
Magnesium:120
Nitrite:<5

 

[Subsea]

Hi, my gracilaria macroalgae is not red.
Salinity:1.025
Phosphate:1
Nitrate:5
Kh:9
Calcium:440
Magnesium:120
Nitrite:<5

Turn off blue and jets see what colors show. Also, can you be more specific as to which species. Can’t tell from your picture.Gracilaria that you gave.

 

[praba775]

Hi, I do know what species it is. It is like really deep maroon almost like a very deep red mixed with brown. It is suppose to be bright red. My nitrate seems good so I dont know what is wrong.

 

[Uncle99]

Phosphate of 1ppm would dull any coral.
Is that number correct?

 

[Subsea]

Hi, I do know what species it is. It is like really deep maroon almost like a very deep red mixed with brown. It is suppose to be bright red. My nitrate seems good so I dont know what is wrong.

Nothing is wrong. If you view your display with 6500K spectrum instead of 20,000K, you’d red Gracilaria might look red under daylight.

 

[praba775]

Phosphate of 1ppm would dull any coral.
Is that number correct?

Hi, my phosphate is really 1ppm. My lfs said that was dangerously high and livestock might die but I have a gsp, an orange musroom coral and an orange digitata. I also have three green chromis. The look beautiful. My glass is a little foggy.

 

[praba775]

Almost forgot, I also have two electric blue hermit crabs.

 

[Uncle99]

Hi, my phosphate is really 1ppm. My lfs said that was dangerously high and livestock might die but I have a gsp, an orange musroom coral and an orange digitata. I also have three green chromis. The look beautiful. My glass is a little foggy.

Ok.
Any reason you don’t mop up the excess?
In a natural environment it would be undetectable.
Not zero, but trace.

 

[areefer01]

Hi, my phosphate is really 1ppm. My lfs said that was dangerously high and livestock might die but I have a gsp, an orange musroom coral and an orange digitata. I also have three green chromis. The look beautiful. My glass is a little foggy.

I've run 2.2 ppm of phosphate and neither my fish or my corals died. Also no algae. I'm not saying you should aim that high but it isn't also the end of the world.

 

[praba775]

Good to know. But the person I bought the algae from said" It wasn't matured". I don't know what that means, do any of you know what that means ?

 

[Bruttall]

My phosphate regularly runs to about .25 and that is extremely high I think, 1.0 phos is dangerous I would imagine. Most reef tanks run less than .08 phos. I think you need to start there and reduce that number. Here is a screen cap of my Apex Phos chart so you can see what mine is doing.

I dose SeaKlear Tri-Lanthum Chloride 20ml reduced in 1480ml of RODI directly into my skimmer neck for Phos management at 20ml daily added on my 350gal system.

The tank.

 

[praba775]

Hey guys, my phosphate is 0.5 as for now

 

[praba775]

But this post is really about why my gracilaria is not red and not about my phosphate is crazy high

 

[besskurz]

But this post is really about why my gracilaria is not red and not about my phosphate is crazy high

Macros are supposed to like high phos.
Take a photo with lights off. It should reveal its real color.

 

[praba775]

Macros are supposed to like high phos.
Take a photo with lights off. It should reveal its real color.

Yes. Well I dont have a picture but its colour is deep maroone