Yellow in corals

Salty1962 · Nov 16, 2016

We all often have spoke about keeping a coral's color vibrant. I wanted to start a thread about how people are achieving these colorations, is it Elements, Lighting or Flow that is making you successful with the coloration?
I'll start with my question:
How do you keep the Yellow in your corals?

Graffiti Spot · Nov 16, 2016

Strong lighting and lower nutrients helps the most. As well as having an acro that is truely yellow and not green or greenish yellow. Flow doesn't play a role in coloration as long as it's adequate. Metals and some elements can help manipulate color tone as well.

spidercrab · Nov 16, 2016

The best way that I know is to download adobe lightroom and remove the green hue.... that's how it's done

Here is my flaming volcano unicorn for 200$ Per .5 cm frag non incrusted:

Coastie Reefer · Nov 16, 2016

spidercrab said:
The best way that I know is to download adobe lightroom and remove the green hue.... that's how it's done

Here is my flaming volcano unicorn for 200$ Per .5 cm frag non incrusted:

Now that's pretty funny right there... sadly there's a lot of that going on out there too.

The only yellow I have is a yellow tort from BC and I blast it with light. That seems to do the trick so far.

dragon99 · Nov 16, 2016

spidercrab said:
The best way that I know is to download adobe lightroom and remove the green hue.... that's how it's done

Here is my flaming volcano unicorn for 200$ Per .5 cm frag non incrusted:

10/10, would buy!!

spidercrab · Nov 16, 2016

Coastie Reefer said:
Now that's pretty funny right there... sadly there's a lot of that going on out there too.

The only yellow I have is a yellow tort from BC and I blast it with light. That seems to do the trick so far.

Yea this hack company "Sexy corals" sells a knock off of it called something like redplanet..?? buy the original from me. lol http://www.sexycorals.com/Sexy_SPS.html

Willz · Nov 16, 2016

spidercrab said:
The best way that I know is to download adobe lightroom and remove the green hue.... that's how it's done

Here is my flaming volcano unicorn for 200$ Per .5 cm frag non incrusted:

Paypal? Heh.....

Diesel · Nov 16, 2016

Thanks @Salty1962 great thread.
I think you stole my future thread list for the holiday season.
I had that same topic written down to be my next thread

Now I need a new topic............

Yellow........... color of victorious

I had good luck with strong light and high in the tank.
My yellows flourish with a No3 of 5ppm in dark deep yellow and when No3 was lower at 2ppm it became slightly light yellow, the kind of zeovit yellow.
I never manipulate the color with elements dosing but some say that iron will bring out the yellows, maybe so but I can't tell as I never done it that way.
Iron dosing is so tricky as you never can test for iron in your test any ways.
Triton will tell you but the # is so low to be correct 0.00006 as a to go to target in NSW.
Maybe a iron hammer will do the trick

spidercrab · Nov 16, 2016

Prefer bankdraft, cash or cashiers check... But paypal gift will work

Willz said:
Paypal? Heh.....

Salty1962 · Nov 16, 2016

Diesel said:
Thanks @Salty1962 great thread.
I think you stole my future thread list for the holiday season.
I had that same topic written down to be my next thread
Now I need a new topic............

Yellow........... color of victorious
I had good luck with strong light and high in the tank.
My yellows flourish with a No3 of 5ppm in dark deep yellow and when No3 was lower at 2ppm it became slightly light yellow, the kind of zeovit yellow.
I never manipulate the color with elements dosing but some say that iron will bring out the yellows, maybe so but I can't tell as I never done it that way.
Iron dosing is so tricky as you never can test for iron in your test any ways.
Triton will tell you but the # is so low to be correct 0.00006 as a to go to target in NSW.
Maybe a iron hammer will do the trick

Sorry I busted your bubble

It shows great minds think alike

Salty1962 · Nov 16, 2016

I just purchased a Bananarama and was wanting to get every ones FEEDBACK on keeping yellows in corals. It seems to be one of the most daunting colors to keep.
If anyone has any ideas on other colors that are hard to keep, please include them!

Wiz · Nov 16, 2016

My psammocora is as yellow as you get. I do nothing special

Diesel · Nov 16, 2016

Yes sir.
I only encourage this kind of love for the hobby, you have been hammering on this forum and it's not un-noticed.
Thanks a bunch.

120reefkeeper · Nov 16, 2016

Hard to capture the true yellow of these 2 but trust me.... they are both very yellow [emoji4]

Lots of light up high and very low nutrients. Stability! Stability! Stability!

dragon99 · Nov 16, 2016

From:
https://reefbuilders.com/2008/09/03/guide-of-sps-coral-coloration-make-them-more-vivid-bright/

Yellows

Highly dependent on Nitrate and PO4 levels. Of course all SPS colors are highly dependent on lack of N and P so I wanted to start with probably the easiest color to get, yellow. Yellows are sort of your baseline; yellows will tell you a lot about what is going on in your tank, what is needed and what is overdosed.

Salty1962 · Nov 16, 2016

dragon99 said:
From:
https://reefbuilders.com/2008/09/03/guide-of-sps-coral-coloration-make-them-more-vivid-bright/

Yellows

Highly dependent on Nitrate and PO4 levels. Of course all SPS colors are highly dependent on lack of N and P so I wanted to start with probably the easiest color to get, yellow. Yellows are sort of your baseline; yellows will tell you a lot about what is going on in your tank, what is needed and what is overdosed.

Thx for the link.

Salty1962 · Nov 16, 2016

Diesel said:
Yes sir.
I only encourage this kind of love for the hobby, you have been hammering on this forum and it's not un-noticed.
Thanks a bunch.

I just hope we can help all of the R2Reefers with their tanks

I know I learn so much every day.

Diesel · Nov 16, 2016

Salty1962 said:
I just hope we can help all of the R2Reefers with their tanks I know I learn so much every day.

Keep up the good work my friend.
I hear that you also know something about photography?

bif24701 · Nov 16, 2016

I have a 3 month old tank, my corals are doing well, good colors and growing. I keep PO4 as low as possible. .03 or less. ULR Hanna.
My NO3 stays around 3ppm.
ALK 9.5
Cal 430
Mag 1350

I have high flow, 60 times display.
High light, Kessil AP700
Some frags I have are a little slow getting started and a bit pale.
I have a good amount of fish some lots of nutrients going in.
Strong skimming SRO-5000, refugium/cheato, vinegar dosing, GFO/Carbon, MarinePure Block.
My parameters stay rock solid, I test ALK often. Use Kalk in my ATO, two part ready once Kalk no longer fullfls demand. PH averages 8.25 some times higher.

I feel like I have everything needed and the stability is there. I guess all I can do is keep it up and hope for the best.