Best ways to get Acros to color up? - Nano-Reef Community
Oct 15, 2003 · Last one. This is the coral in the back right two pics ago, as uner 175 a few months ago. The color has turned nearly a pale milk chocolate with transluscent purple tips and major green polyp extension. FYI: The two background corals actually arrived after 3 days in a box and 40 degree weather and all lived without acclimation.
Acro losing color - Coral Forum - Nano-Reef Community
Aug 18, 2010 · When I bought it, it was fairly brightly colored right when it went into my tank; the following day it had good polyp extension also. Now it has become quite pale green. The polyps are only randomly extended around the branches. I have it sitting about three to four inches from a 425 gph powerhead in the top of the tank, about 10 inches from ...
GSP Turned completely brown! - Coral Forum - Nano-Reef …
Nov 20, 2010 · Hi all, I obtained a small GSP colony about a year ago that quickly turned into a large one. It was perfectly healthy and green up until a few months ago when it pretty suddenly just turned redish brown over the course of a few weeks. Only a few of the tips of the 'fingers' are still green, but the colony has alcmost completely lost its color.
Euphyllia coral coloration - Coral Forum - Nano-Reef Community
Feb 25, 2018 · Joined 8 yr. Posted February 27, 2018. If you are running the light 50/50 it will effect the colour of the coral. Try running your light 100% blue and 20% white. If the coral.is stretching for more light it will change the colour same happens when it's getting too much light.
Green star polyps turning brown!! - Nano-Reef Community
Posted October 28, 2002. try an area of less ilumination. often corals will ditch the bright flourocene pigments, and go brown in bright light areas.. it is kinda like a melanin response in humans who "Tan". dose with DT's too. and some puree seafoods.
macro turning white? - Macroalgae and Seagrass - Nano-Reef …
Mar 3, 2014 · Macro likes high nutrient systems. For many reef keepers, macro gets starved because the systems are maintained to clean. If a fast growing macro is put into a nutrient low tank with intense lights, it would be prone to going asexual. With messy eaters like ponies, fast growing macro would be a perfect combination.
12g Long Reef tank build - Nano Reef Journals - Nano-Reef …
Oct 3, 2024 · Flow: Jebao SW10 with wave controller. No name wave maker for cycle. Equipment: MarinePure High performance Biofilter Media-Block 6 pieces cut at 6"L x 1"W x 1"T (this should be more then enough even without live rock and sand) FZONE Auto Top Off. Power Center Day/Night Timer with Wave maker timer. MicroBacter7.
Pico Light Survey - Lighting Forum - Nano-Reef Community
Jan 20, 2018 · Secondly, part of the spirit of pico tanks is that they are inexpensive and easy to set up. For a larger tank, the pricepoint on the A80 is amazingly low, but when you can set up a pico with a $10 air-pump, and a $25 heater, $125 for …
Cycling with live rock?? - Nano-Reef Community
On 6/14/2024 at 11:32 PM, Airedale.Reef said: Short answer: Yes, you can cycle the live TB rock, as well as the dry rock together. Essentially, the bacteria from the live rock will spread to the dry rock. You could also supplement additional bottled bacteria if you prefer too (I have used Dr Tims, as well as Bio-Spira).
Help me format these Excel graphs for LED spectrum
May 3, 2011 · Here is a sampling of what we got, but I need your scrutiny. First, I need to get that rainbow color off of the TOP HALF of the graph (all areas above the plot line). This is just a standard "plot area" gradient fill that I mucked around with to get the colors right (that was a beast to do!). If you know how to only have it fill in the area ...