Miyagi Tort

alten78 · Dec 16, 2017

I picked up this Miyagi Tort last year and while its grown OK, I haven't had the greatest of color compared to a lot of other Miyagi's ive seen out there.

This has always been more of a reddish purple with very little green in the middle/ base and sites higher up in my tank under T5's.

Has anyone noticed deeper shades of purple or more green lower or higher up?

justinm · Dec 16, 2017

What combo of bulbs are you using and how many?

BoomCorals · Dec 16, 2017

Miyagi likes less light. I’ve had it grow beautifully in 150-200 PAR.

alten78 · Dec 16, 2017

justinm said:
What combo of bulbs are you using and how many?

6x48 - (3) Blue+ (3)Coral+

BoomCorals said:
Miyagi likes less light. I’ve had it grow beautifully in 150-200 PAR.

Makes sense, I'll move it down lower in the tank.

Thanks!

justinm · Dec 16, 2017

You could maybe take away a coral + or two and add an actinic or purple plus or AB special. Change the spectrum around a little bit. I agree lower par brings the green out but so will a spectrum change.

alten78 · Dec 16, 2017

justinm said:
You could maybe take away a coral + or two and add an actinic or purple plus or AB special. Change the spectrum around a little bit. I agree lower par brings the green out but so will a spectrum change.

I thought about an actinic but it would be replacing one of the blue+ , the current setup is almost identical to when I ran Phoenix and radium mh's which by far was my favorite color. I am not a fan of overly blue tanks

I'm pretty happy with color on almost everything in the tank... if it ain't broke don't fix it

CindyKz · Dec 17, 2017

I have a miyagi tort and the same question, although mine is more of a dark pink with a little purple. I need to check the light with a PAR meter, based on this thread maybe it's getting too much. Hopefully I can squeeze out a few minutes to do that today.

@BoomCorals, how would duration of light effect the color?

BoomCorals · Dec 17, 2017

CindyKz said:
I have a miyagi tort and the same question, although mine is more of a dark pink with a little purple. I need to check the light with a PAR meter, based on this thread maybe it's getting too much. Hopefully I can squeeze out a few minutes to do that today.

@BoomCorals, how would duration of light effect the color?

I’m not sure I haven’t tested this coral. In my tanks I have a 10 hour light period.

jda · Dec 17, 2017

It might be different than a true Miyagi. Lots of torts are called Miyagi and not all of them descended from the lineage of the original and are slightly different. Assuming that it is a true Miyagi, I have them get the most intense color under high light, but the contrast between the colors is better under lower light. The contrast can be magnified with NSWish level nutrient. Higher nutrients will bring deeper, but not as bright of colors. High light and NSWish nutrients work best for me.

CindyKz · Dec 17, 2017

Finally got around to checking mine - the miyagi was up at 268 PAR under combo LED/T5s. I have a few SPS placed high up that are pale or just aren't giving me the color I want, so I turned my LEDs down a smidge. The miyagi is still under high light at around 220, but I'll see if this helps before I change anything else.

jda said:
It might be different than a true Miyagi. Lots of torts are called Miyagi and not all of them descended from the lineage of the original and are slightly different. Assuming that it is a true Miyagi, I have them get the most intense color under high light, but the contrast between the colors is better under lower light. The contrast can be magnified with NSWish level nutrient. Higher nutrients will bring deeper, but not as bright of colors. High light and NSWish nutrients work best for me.

Could be, no real way of knowing.

Ibn · Dec 18, 2017

Copps' blueberry miyagi. Sitting in 250-300 PAR at the moment. Purple body throughout with the polyps breaking it up with the greens. Don't mind the scars on it. Had an issue a week ago and it's slowly regrowing over the scars.

John23 · Dec 24, 2017

normally they like lower light try moving it down and seeing how it does.... that could be the problem

larangcon · Dec 29, 2017

Changing the light might affect other corals, I would move it 2" lower and wait for a month to see any changes on the miyagi. Remember slow changes is best in reefing.