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Trying to get good color from Steve Elias Blue Stag

mike1962

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Hi All,

At the MARS frag swap in April I got a small 1" frag of Steve Elias Blue Stag Coral. It has doubled in length and is now branching, but the color just isn't there. It didn't help that I moved, but I'm wondering if anyone has some suggestions on how to bring the color back on this coral. I have a Cali Tort, various Monti's, a superman, and other SPS in my mixed reef tank that are doing fine. The coral sits in the upper third of the tank, and gets moderate flow. My light is a 20K Radium 150 HQI (~6month old bulb) and on for 10 Hours/day, the tank is a 28g nano. Parameters are dKh = 10, Ca = 480, SG = 35ppt, Mg = 1400, pH= 8.2, Temp = 78. I have a skimmer on 24/7, and run phosban as well. Any insight welcomed!
 
Hi All,

Sorry it took so long to post a pic. Unusual business lately. As you can see there isn't much color. A little blue on the tips but that's about it. Could it be that it's getting too much light? It's been like this nearing two months. Thanks, Michael

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Hmm... Odd things happening with this thread. I posted a picture, but now it's gone. I got an email saying that LeviT had responded to this thread, but I don't see his comments here. Here's the picture again. Hope it helps.

Michael
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http://lh5.ggpht.com/kamwene/SLeDay5W5BI/AAAAAAAAACA/BGV8fVfMNO0/Coral.jpg

direct link for those having issue viewing (I am on FF and it forces me to download the image)
 
All I can suggest is patience. I have a colony that colored up beautifully but lost it's color when I changed my lights. It's been under the original lighting again for ~a month and still has yet to get back to "healthy" color.
 
Yeah I was trying to get you pic situation figured out then I noticed you were working on it so I removed my post to limit the confusion..... the net result was more confusion :)
 
Thanks Guys!

It's the first time I posted pics with Picasa. I used the right button on the mouse to get the link and pasted it in between the image tags. Perhaps I will try photobucket in the future.

Dyngoe, I wondered about the type of lighting being a reason. I'm curious, when you changed your lights, did you change thetype of light, the Kelvin rating, the type of bulb, both or all?.. Just curious.

I was also curious if anyone who has this coral has found that it likes a particular flow, does it like being in really intensive light (i.e. nearer the top vs. the middle portion of the tank) I know that this is all relative of course. Does this particular coral like really clean SW (this is a mixed reef tank, so the SW has more nutrients than a SPS only tank), etc.

Thanks for the quick responses, and thanks Tony for putting the direct link up.
 
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