Red cap color help

[Ripnlips82]

I was wondering why my red cap is more pink than others I have seen. Are the rest of my sps looking good as far as color is concerned?

Oh and will also post a pic later of superman monti that doesn't seen to be responding well to anything I do

 

[Sdoutreefer]

The first and third picture look a little bleached...

 

[PaulKreider]

Try moving up higher in tank, mine looks great everywhere. Bottom to top of tank.

 

[Ripnlips82]

Well here is the problem lol. I have a 48x12 sink with 110 blue and white Crees and I just borrowed a par meter from a friend. I found that my par under the surface was only at 115ish. I was amazed that my sps was even growing! I have since then cranked it up to about 175 but now I am afraid to start bleaching chalice and favia on the sand bed. It does not seem I can turn it up to about 250 like I want and keep lower light stuff on the bed. Do I need to raise the light up more to decrease par on the bed and still have 250+ at the surface? I crank up that light past 75% and I get over 1300 par 5" down! My front room looks like a runway from the street!

All my sps is currently as high in the tank as possible.

 

[PaulKreider]

How deep is your tank?

 

[Ripnlips82]

Its 21" and I have the light about 10" above the water now to help with light spill over the sides.

 

[PaulKreider]

Might be something other than your lights, or did you recently add them? Water parameters possibly?

 

[Ripnlips82]

I don't think Its water quality cuz I test every week and dose. The only problem I had was a couple months back. I put theGfo reactor back on line and it kinds shocked the system. Really I hate using gfo because I can never seem to get the right amount. Even if I start out with a couple tablespoons and gradually increase it still seems like a get some bleaching! What is everyone secret for gfo? P04 rarely gets above .03 according to salifert even without gfo.

 

[Ripnlips82]

Have you ever checked par level on your sand bed Paul K? Just curious what everyone else's reading are on the bottom so I can establish a baseline. Should I shoot for 100ish?