brown sps

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Need help naming this brown sps? Im starting to see some growth in the 8ft tank. finally. no dosing and weekly water changes.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19890&d=1365124055 (http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19890&d=1365124055)

[BBQHILLBILLY]

heres another pic

[BBQHILLBILLY]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19891&d=1365124270 (http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19891&d=1365124270)

[allan]

Kind of looks like a digi.


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[Scutterborn]

Looks like a montipora veracusa.


-Ben-

[Big_Pun]

almost looks like spongeodes

[Scutterborn]

http://img.tapatalk.com/d/13/04/05/ju6abudu.jpg


-Ben-

[Scutterborn]

This one is colored up though.


-Ben-

[Fracture]

Why do they brown up like this?

[FireWater]

Why do they brown up like this?

Too many issues to start explaining. Lighting and water quality are the two main culprits.

[Fracture]

Ok

[BBQHILLBILLY]

lol are they not supposed to be brown lol

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Your right. I went to go look at them under the blue LEDs. The sps is green and I see an orange dot.

[FireWater]

Another issue of brown sps is too white of light, too much intensity, too long of light cycle. Not saying you're doin anything wrong Shane.

[FireWater]

Every time I read what I post it just don't sound right. Sorry. Promise I'm not critiquing.

[Scutterborn]

My SPS nearly always seem to go through a browning phase before try color back up. It would seem to me to be a leveling out of the symbiotic zooxanthella algae present within the coral blooming (browning), then settling back out to a consistent population (coloring up) revealing the natural color if the coral itself.

I could be wrong. I should've been in bed hours ago.


-Ben-

[Scutterborn]

Every time I read what I post it just don't sound right. Sorry. Promise I'm not critiquing.

Meanie!! :)


-Ben-

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Its all good. Under the blue LEDs they are different with a green skirt and an orange dot showing up. You have a lot of sps, successfully. These just started growing. They were flat.
I allways listen to what you say or do so I can be successfull.:bigsmile:

[Scutterborn]

Your right. I went to go look at them under the blue LEDs. The sps is green and I see an orange dot.

So who's right?


-Ben-

[BBQHILLBILLY]

wait , dont go nowhere, lol we tried to take some pics with a flash and cell phone. pics on the way

[BBQHILLBILLY]

I cant quite get the pic green skirt and the orange dot Im seeing. but this may help whats to be coming with this sps.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

http://www.maast.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=19894&d=1365130147

[350gt]

Why do they brown up like this?


when you sell them to KING aka leroy....... lol jk

[Sherita]

Shane, it's a purple digitata. I had a colony that was growing there until one of the wrasses crashed into it and snapped it off right at the base. There was a tiny bit left, looks like it's doing good for ya.

[KING]

every time i go led my sps brown...i get to scared to stay in the game to find out if they well come back..lol good luck..

[350gt]

Lol how long you had the vega? 2 months?.... Lol

[Big_Pun]

I hate to say this, pains me to say this!! but my coral looks the same color wise after a week. see what happens after week two!

[350gt]

Hey you should post up last months CPS bill and this months!!!!.... That's would be awesome...

[Sherita]

Hey you should post up last months CPS bill and this months!!!!.... That's would be awesome...

What's the point in that? We could all save a LOT of money if we got rid of our tanks completely.

The browning out of corals with LEDs is a common complaint. One which has certainly kept me from going there. I didn't spend thousands of dollars on rare zoas and lps just to turn them brown. LEDs may be the wave of the future, but I think I'll stay stuck in the past until reports of problems stop popping up every time LEDs are mentioned.

[Big_Pun]

What's the point in that? We could all save a LOT of money if we got rid of our tanks completely.

The browning out of corals with LEDs is a common complaint. One which has certainly kept me from going there. I didn't spend thousands of dollars on rare zoas and lps just to turn them brown. LEDs may be the wave of the future, but I think I'll stay stuck in the past until reports of problems stop popping up every time LEDs are mentioned.

emilys zoas look so much better under her radions hands down!! next time your in town your welcome to swing by

[350gt]

Sps and LEDs are the issue sherita not with LPS or softies which do very well under the lights.... Colors from LEDs and zoas or LPS can never be matched with mh or t5...

[350gt]

And THE POINT was to see if it really does make a difference on electricity, some say it does, some say it doesn't.... Eitherway I wouldn't know....... Just askin..

why would we give up our tanks?

[allan]

Man, i don't know about all that, but my SPS looks awesome under the LEDs. In fact my Stuber has a deep rich color under the LEDs that it never had under the MH.

And the zoas seem to pop as well. Armor of God zoas always looked rather bleh to me, but now after several months of being under the LED, they are beginning to glow. And Dan's tank where he's got them under LED they are sick looking.

One thing I've noticed, and it doesn't bother me, is that growth is somewhat milder under the LEDs. Not sure if it's because I've got the white at 70-75% for only a few hours a day, but less growth means less cutting and fragging, so I'm good with that.

[350gt]

Also I believe LEDs and browning of SPS has more to do with user error..

i haven't browned much but bleached some with overpowering with light.... Fixed by taking Leroy's advice and trimming the burned pieces off, low and behold its growing back after tuning the lights down and raising the fixtures a bit.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

Shane, it's a purple digitata. I had a colony that was growing there until one of the wrasses crashed into it and snapped it off right at the base. There was a tiny bit left, looks like it's doing good for ya.

That teardrop LR is awesome. I found the purple digita thats now growing and its purple. Its on the other side. Ill see if I can get Edsel over here with his camera.

[ramsey]

I've also not heard much about browning under LEDs but I've heard a lot of complaints about bleaching under LEDs due to too much light, too fast. Did you do anything to acclimate the corals to the new light?

[BBQHILLBILLY]

No not intentional other than Im not using any lenses. So all lenses off the LEDs. But I do have LEDs turned up 75%. I did have them down to 50%. So maybe indirectly. lol
All the coral just started growing fast in the past week. Ill get the pic of purple digita here soon.