JF Hateraide turning pale on base

[The0wn4g3]

I purchased this JF Hateraid frag on May 9th, and over the last 3 days the base has become progressively more pale. Any ideas as to what could cause this? Polyp extension isn't great, but I'd say average.

Details:
75 gallon
(4) T5
(2) A360x
Sitting at about 286 PAR "full sun"
Middle of tank between (2) fx330 on OGC cycling between +60% and - 60%.

Nitrate and phosphate are undetectable but I do have a little bubble, hair, and film algae growth so I'm definitely not at an ultra low nutrient level.

Alk 8.3
Calc 440
Mag 1305
Temp 25.8 C
1.025sg

Performed a 10% water change last Saturday, but no changes to the tank since then.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[leepink23]

To me the whole acro looks bad. Do you have any other acro? If so how do they look. Normally the base is pest

 

[WIReefer]

What are you using to test PO4?

 

[The0wn4g3]

To me the whole acro looks bad. Do you have any other acro? If so how do they look. Normally the base is pest

I have a JF Pink Cadillac and this Hateraid that look less than great. The rest of my frags seem fine.

Using Salifert for all tests.

 

[leepink23]

I have a JF Pink Cadillac and this Hateraid that look less than great. The rest of my frags seem fine.

Using Salifert for all tests.

Do you dip the corals before going in your tank?

 

[The0wn4g3]

Do you dip the corals before going in your tank?

Yeah, Coral RX and Medicoral.

 

[leepink23]

Yeah, Coral RX and Medicoral.

I would probably put it in low light for a few days and see what happens.

 

[BAUCE]

This piece is pretty bleached out. Reading zero on your tests kits isn’t good even if you have algae growing. I’d try to bring those numbers up with feeding or dosing. In the mean time I’d just leave it alone and make sure you alkalinity doesn’t go up.

 

[The0wn4g3]

This piece is pretty bleached out. Reading zero on your tests kits isn’t good even if you have algae growing. I’d try to bring those numbers up with feeding or dosing. In the mean time I’d just leave it alone and make sure you alkalinity doesn’t go up.

It's definitely not bleached as in lighting bleached. And I've been dosing a cup of live phyto almost every night, was doing Tropic Marin PlusNP at max dosage, reef roids every other day, cut back the refugium light, turned off the protein skimmer. Algae growth increased but nitrate and phosphate have been locked at zero since the tank cycled.

I'm really scratching my head...

 

[jx.reef]

It’s bleaching because of the zero nitrates and phosphates. Feed fish more, add coral food, etc will help bring it back. It’ll start STNing soon if you don’t give it some nutrients.

 

[The0wn4g3]

It’s bleaching because of the zero nitrates and phosphates. Feed fish more, add coral food, etc will help bring it back. It’ll start STNing soon if you don’t give it some nutrients.

But considering I've done just about all of the typical suggestions to increase Nitrate and phosphate with only algae growth to speak of, what else am I supposed to do?

 

[jx.reef]

I use Brightwell fastart M to dose straight nitrate/phosphate to raise my levels before. My tank has responded better to simply feeding tons (reef energy ab+, reef roofs, phyto, flake foods, mysis). I’m getting a ton of algae growth on my rocks, but my sps are growing as well.

 

[blkhawk10]

Whatever you do, do it slow. The more changes you make in a short amount of time will only hurt the coral more than it already is. I would do one thing at a time and wait and see how it goes.

 

[The0wn4g3]

I use Brightwell fastart M to dose straight nitrate/phosphate to raise my levels before. My tank has responded better to simply feeding tons (reef energy ab+, reef roofs, phyto, flake foods, mysis). I’m getting a ton of algae growth on my rocks, but my sps are growing as well.

Do you run a skimmer 24/7 and/or filter sock?

 

[jx.reef]

I don’t run a skimmer, just filter floss. Here are my key parameters if it helps:

Alk - 7.6
Nitrates - 10+
Phophates - 0.4

Fresh cut pink lemonade 6/27 -> 7/18.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Op, I would love to see the other corals in the tank. If they are growing I wouldn’t change anything. It does look pale but small frags can look like this and still grow and color up just fine. The new growth sometimes makes the coral seem like it’s colored up a little pale. Before you go changing anything show us your other corals and show us a tank pic so people can have something more to base suggestions on than stated parameters (which will get you so many different suggestions).