As  i stated before this coral was browned out when i recevied it.Just did not want to make anymore mistakes during its recovery.I will test nitrates tonight.In the process of raising alk.

The lower one is the same acro in question.Broke off.

Korlia are number 4's.

I do not get alot of temp swings.due to an ac the blows directly on the tank.

Cal.430

Mag.1320

alk 7.5

Phosphate .5

Contour professional skimmer is all i can tell ya.

Salinity;1.23

As far as polyp extension on the coral in question it is minimal at best.

Pic #4 top is the hydropora i got from the frag fest a month ago and has done really well with great color.

 

 

Ok here is a little history.

I received this coral in the current condition it is in.

Coral was in a tank that did not have sufficent lighting.

I have no ill feelings from the person that sold me the coral.I knew it was not up to par(get it)when i made the decesion to purchase this coral.

I had seen this sps about a month prior to purchase and this Coral in it's original state  was the reason that i decided to give these sps a shot.(probably was not one of my better decesions to start with a browned out coral).Regardless.

I brought the coral home.I dripped the coral for about 1 hr +  before placing the coral in a good flow but low in my tank.

over the course of a week it has been raised up to the position that you see it in now.(maybe to fast?) I target feed this coral with Marine snow every other day.I can see a slight bit of green(which was the corals original color)on the tabling part of the coral but there has been no significentl improvement or decline.Here are the pics.Sorry so many tank is to wide.

Also included a picture of the only other sps(except a few frags that i recently acquired in buying a complete 20 glln tank.so don't let the other represent current condition of my water or tank for that matter) that i have had for about 3 months now,and doing very well.

 

 

 

The following is just my opinion, based on my experiences keeping SPS...

 

1) 4 korallias may not be enough flow. Are they all Korallia #4s, or different sizes?

 

2) What skimmer are you running?

 

3) Your lighting sounds adequate. What is your lighting schedule for the halides and PCs?

 

4) Water parameters are the most important thing when keeping SPS. They are notoriously finicky. Not only do they need to be in a certain range, more importantly they need to be kept very stable. Please list your readings for the following parameters, listing the 'high' and 'low' swings on temp, SG, alk, Ca, pH, and nO3:

 

 

temp

SG

pH

alk / dKH

Ca

Mg

pO4

nO3

 

5) Water change schedule, how much, how often, do you use tap, RO, RO/DI?

 

6) Carbon change schedule (how often). Also, you may want to invest in a carbon reactor (more efficient)

 

I have had some SPS brown out despite my efforts, but certainly not every time I added new ones. Many never lost their colors at all. Some changed color, probably due to my lighting being a slightly different spectrum than where they came from...