SPS In Trouble

[horseplay]

SPS experts, please tell me what's going on. The color faded overnight and PE almost non-existent. This mille is usually the happiest one in the tank. All the parameters are good albeit it's new tank with new water. What can cause a coral to lose color that fast? Other SPS in the tank are mostly ok. Although the color seems to be lighter than before. Just raised the light to 15 inches above water. 4 T4 HO at 7 hours a day and LED at 20%. Too much light? New tank water too clean?

 

[iTzJu]

With the new lighting and water could of shocked your corals. if it isnt bleached white, which from the pictures it isnt then that is most likely the case.

i would just monitor them for the next couple of days but they should recover if all your params are where they need to be.

 

[iTzJu]

Also, have you added anything within the past 48 hours to the tank?

 

[Arce]

+1 Shock from the change, just keep things stable itll come back.

 

[horseplay]

Thanks guys. Nothing is added. Just regular dosing. Must be the shock then. It's holding steady for the last several hours. At least not worse. Just raised the light again to 2 ft above water. And feeding more. I guess it's easy until it's not LOL.

 

[saltkreep88]

Thanks guys. Nothing is added. Just regular dosing. Must be the shock then. It's holding steady for the last several hours. At least not worse. Just raised the light again to 2 ft above water. And feeding more. I guess it's easy until it's not LOL.

There are many things that change from an established tank to a new tank that we cannot test for. They are going to lose some color anytime they go through a change like this. I would take a step back and see how they recover on their own. As long as the parameters we can test for are inline, do not do anything drastic. I know I am repeating some of what was said above, but I wanted to stress how important is still is to be patient and take every change slow. Fiddling with the lights could add additional time to their adjustment, and feeding heavily could quickly cause a nutrient issue in a new tank which would most likely be worse than you are seeing.

 

[horseplay]

There are many things that change from an established tank to a new tank that we cannot test for. They are going to lose some color anytime they go through a change like this. I would take a step back and see how they recover on their own. As long as the parameters we can test for are inline, do not do anything drastic. I know I am repeating some of what was said above, but I wanted to stress how important is still is to be patient and take every change slow. Fiddling with the lights could add additional time to their adjustment, and feeding heavily could quickly cause a nutrient issue in a new tank which would most likely be worse than you are seeing.

Saltkreep - very true. thanks for the reminder. I will try my best not to panic ...

 

[Arce]

There are many things that change from an established tank to a new tank that we cannot test for. They are going to lose some color anytime they go through a change like this. I would take a step back and see how they recover on their own. As long as the parameters we can test for are inline, do not do anything drastic. I know I am repeating some of what was said above, but I wanted to stress how important is still is to be patient and take every change slow. Fiddling with the lights could add additional time to their adjustment, and feeding heavily could quickly cause a nutrient issue in a new tank which would most likely be worse than you are seeing.

Good points ^