dmy535
Well-Known Member
Was a bit worried. I have a new red favia that I purchased last month. Had been looking awesome up to this past 10 days or so. Thought maybe it was too much light or flow, so moved it to a lower light and lower flow area but it continued to recede and I could start to see the skeleton around the polyps beginning to show....
Testing parameters almost daily:
Dkh 8.7
Ph 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1300
Salinity 1.026
Temp 78
Po4 .04
No2 = 2
this could just be an anomaly or, they could be related... maybe not... anyways today did a water change made sure new water tested the same as tank water. And now the favia looks great! He’s getting fluffy again and the areas where I saw his skeletal structures protruding are now not really visible!
I need to mention that I was also doing some research this morning on my lighting “radion g5 blues” and had just setup the ab+ spectrum and left it as is thinking that’s was good enough.... was watching a BRS video and Randy mentioned that for LPS he found that the point intensity for a 60 gal cube (mine is a 56 at same depth) should only be set at 20% which gives LPS a or of 75-150 in the sand. I went into my mobius app and realized that the standard ab+ setting has 100% intensity! I lowered it to 30 for now (plan to rent a par meter) and I already like the color of the tank better. This could also explain why some of the other LPS corals were looking a little washed out and not as colorful....
So in the end, it could be a combination of the water change and the light change that my favia is looking better...? Idk... but figured I’d share mainly because I had been searching bout favia corals and nothing was matching what I needed. Figured someone else out there may have something similar. I’m leaning towards too much light and the Favia was basically getting “baked”... live and learn! Hoping for a full recovery!
Testing parameters almost daily:
Dkh 8.7
Ph 8.0
Cal 450
Mag 1300
Salinity 1.026
Temp 78
Po4 .04
No2 = 2
this could just be an anomaly or, they could be related... maybe not... anyways today did a water change made sure new water tested the same as tank water. And now the favia looks great! He’s getting fluffy again and the areas where I saw his skeletal structures protruding are now not really visible!
I need to mention that I was also doing some research this morning on my lighting “radion g5 blues” and had just setup the ab+ spectrum and left it as is thinking that’s was good enough.... was watching a BRS video and Randy mentioned that for LPS he found that the point intensity for a 60 gal cube (mine is a 56 at same depth) should only be set at 20% which gives LPS a or of 75-150 in the sand. I went into my mobius app and realized that the standard ab+ setting has 100% intensity! I lowered it to 30 for now (plan to rent a par meter) and I already like the color of the tank better. This could also explain why some of the other LPS corals were looking a little washed out and not as colorful....
So in the end, it could be a combination of the water change and the light change that my favia is looking better...? Idk... but figured I’d share mainly because I had been searching bout favia corals and nothing was matching what I needed. Figured someone else out there may have something similar. I’m leaning towards too much light and the Favia was basically getting “baked”... live and learn! Hoping for a full recovery!
