orange/red digitata turned pink

Also dose a little milk of magnesium, and see if
that helps. Just add enough to lightly cloud the
water. Do this every other day about 3 times.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/13/2007 1:13 AM:
thanks Wayne.

I'm afraid I started making my own water from.... sigh tap without RODI...
a long time back. Actually it was after the brain coral started changing
but maybe it didn't help. The water quality out here is very good and I
watched a fish store's tanks for a while that also made their water w/out
the RODI factor. I was afraid that my water may be a factor but then again,
I saw the brain turn before making my own water. Alas, maybe it would have
gotten better if I kept buying the RODI.

So I'll have to do a water change and test this. Thanks for the copper idea
and the help. I'll let you know the results.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
link.net...
All sounds good except:

your brain bleaching and dying, and then your montipora looking the same.
Sounds like some low levels of toxin in the water like coper. Coper would
not show up on a test kit as it would be too low for any hobby test kit to
catch.

What kind of water are you using?

Also try adding some milk of magnesium.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/12/2007 5:27 PM:
Wayne that cracks me up. I do remember you asking me that "glass in the
tank" question months ago but I never got back to you.
I had two decorative Kahlua bottles that I was using for decoration.
They have long since been removed as I needed the space for live rock and
livestock.

Fungia coral doing well, zoos look good and are multiplying well,
trumpets multiply too fast it seems. -They split before they are
finished with the previous split and the stalks aren't growing fast
enough to give them room between each other. Red Lobo brain didn't make
it. Right from the start it also turned to pink and was bony for months.
One day I just gave up on it... or it gave up on me I should say. I just
cut a ton of growth off my star polyps and gave some to the LFS. Getting
an aiptasia problem. Inject one and two pop up. I'll probably "rent" a
Berghia to help here. Everything seems to be fine or 'normal'. I'm
getting tired of cleaning the green algae off the glass though. haha. I
have trace phosphates and very little, indirect sunlight hitting the
tank, definitely not over feeding. The halides are feeding the algae and
I can't do much about it.

Getting an aiptasia problem. Inject one and two pop up. I'll probably
"rent" a Berghia to help here.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
link.net...
You still have other corals besides the montipora. And star polyps are
still in the Anthozoa class. Yea I can see the montipora in the picture.

I don't see anything in there that would cause a problem.
What's the reason again that you have that bottle in there?

How are your other corals doing? Or maybe I should ask, how are you
other Anthozoa doing?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:43 PM:
Thanks Wayne,

My lighting equipment is the same as the store however the store's
lighting is probably about 4+ inchies higher off the water and his
corals are a couple of inches deeper in the tank.

This is my first coral. I have other items like a torch, star polpys,
etc at the bottom of the tank but no corals like the digitata.

All water tests seem fine except I do fight to keep my water hardness
up. I do the typical ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kh, calcium and
phosphate tests. Can you think of one I might check into to further
examine this problem, if it is one?

http://www.geocities.com/bryg30/83106-fulltank.jpg -you can barely
see the red/orange digitata in the upper right (under one of the
blue-green damsels) back when it was its original color.

-Bryan




"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
ink.net...
Do you have other corals? If so what other corals do you have? Is the
lighting brighter in your tank than the store's tank? Going to a
brighter tank, can cause them to lighten their colors, and it can also
cause them to darken their colors. Also different nutrient levels in
the water can also make a change in lightness and darkness of corals.
And other factors of water conditions can cause a change.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


*Mr No name* B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:55 AM:
I bought a orangish red digitata frag several months ago and it
looked great and grew fast for a long while. Over a month ago it
started turning pink and now it's very pink, I'm afraid to say almost
white pink. I've been reading about coral bleaching but nothing
really matches my situation. These have been pink for over a month,
maybe even a couple of months. The store I bought it from has his
"parent" frags growing great.

Any idea why this happens and what I can do? It's getting plenty of
light from my halides and actinics.

Thanks for the advice.

B

Temps within range at all times. digitata is the name I was told by the
store and this guys knows his stuff. Looking at pics of the Seriotopora, I
wouldn't know the difference if he didn't tell me. I is only pink now, it
didn't start that way nor or the "parent" corals orange back at the store's
tank. No leathers near it. There is a little glass anemone getting close
but not able to touch it yet. I'll be working on that one this weekend.

B


"Buddha Qwan" wrote in message
ups.com...
It may be that I just missed it, but what is the temperature in your
tank? That could be a major factor in the bleaching. Are you sure it
was a digitata and not a Seriotopora sp. ? Any leather corals close
to it?

-Rob

"digitata" means finger. In other words its a
branching coral. The genus is montipora. So the
species is Montipora digitata. There are however a
lot of different types of montipora. Some, I think
are the same species of montipora. Corals growing in
different environments will grow differently and
this can make it look like a different species. but
anyway that's getting off topic :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/14/2007 6:10 PM:
Temps within range at all times. digitata is the name I was told by the
store and this guys knows his stuff.

By the way montipora digitata is the most common
montipora sold. It's nice fast growing coral. It
works great for giving the fish something to swim in
and out of.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


Wayne Sallee wrote on 3/14/2007 7:29 PM:
"digitata" means finger. In other words its a branching coral. The genus
is montipora. So the species is Montipora digitata. There are however a
lot of different types of montipora. Some, I think are the same species
of montipora. Corals growing in different environments will grow
differently and this can make it look like a different species. but
anyway that's getting off topic :-)

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/14/2007 6:10 PM:
Temps within range at all times. digitata is the name I was told by
the store and this guys knows his stuff.

Wayne Sallee wrote:
but
anyway that's getting off topic :-)


That's half the usefull stuff here. Please continue to ramble on as much
as you like. It's usefull and interesting.

ok, I've gone through the MoM cycle. I'm not sure what the outcome should
be but, between that and going back to RO/DI, hopefully I'll see some color
come back.

I didn't do a water change, just started topping off with RO/DI again.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
news
Also dose a little milk of magnesium, and see if that helps. Just add
enough to lightly cloud the water. Do this every other day about 3 times.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/13/2007 1:13 AM:
thanks Wayne.

I'm afraid I started making my own water from.... sigh tap without
RODI... a long time back. Actually it was after the brain coral started
changing but maybe it didn't help. The water quality out here is very
good and I watched a fish store's tanks for a while that also made their
water w/out the RODI factor. I was afraid that my water may be a factor
but then again, I saw the brain turn before making my own water. Alas,
maybe it would have gotten better if I kept buying the RODI.

So I'll have to do a water change and test this. Thanks for the copper
idea and the help. I'll let you know the results.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
link.net...
All sounds good except:

your brain bleaching and dying, and then your montipora looking the
same. Sounds like some low levels of toxin in the water like coper.
Coper would not show up on a test kit as it would be too low for any
hobby test kit to catch.

What kind of water are you using?

Also try adding some milk of magnesium.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/12/2007 5:27 PM:
Wayne that cracks me up. I do remember you asking me that "glass in
the tank" question months ago but I never got back to you.
I had two decorative Kahlua bottles that I was using for decoration.
They have long since been removed as I needed the space for live rock
and livestock.

Fungia coral doing well, zoos look good and are multiplying well,
trumpets multiply too fast it seems. -They split before they are
finished with the previous split and the stalks aren't growing fast
enough to give them room between each other. Red Lobo brain didn't
make it. Right from the start it also turned to pink and was bony for
months. One day I just gave up on it... or it gave up on me I should
say. I just cut a ton of growth off my star polyps and gave some to
the LFS. Getting an aiptasia problem. Inject one and two pop up.
I'll probably "rent" a Berghia to help here. Everything seems to be
fine or 'normal'. I'm getting tired of cleaning the green algae off
the glass though. haha. I have trace phosphates and very little,
indirect sunlight hitting the tank, definitely not over feeding. The
halides are feeding the algae and I can't do much about it.

Getting an aiptasia problem. Inject one and two pop up. I'll probably
"rent" a Berghia to help here.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
link.net...
You still have other corals besides the montipora. And star polyps are
still in the Anthozoa class. Yea I can see the montipora in the
picture.

I don't see anything in there that would cause a problem.
What's the reason again that you have that bottle in there?

How are your other corals doing? Or maybe I should ask, how are you
other Anthozoa doing?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:43 PM:
Thanks Wayne,

My lighting equipment is the same as the store however the store's
lighting is probably about 4+ inchies higher off the water and his
corals are a couple of inches deeper in the tank.

This is my first coral. I have other items like a torch, star
polpys, etc at the bottom of the tank but no corals like the
digitata.

All water tests seem fine except I do fight to keep my water hardness
up. I do the typical ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kh, calcium and
phosphate tests. Can you think of one I might check into to further
examine this problem, if it is one?

http://www.geocities.com/bryg30/83106-fulltank.jpg -you can barely
see the red/orange digitata in the upper right (under one of the
blue-green damsels) back when it was its original color.

-Bryan




"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
ink.net...
Do you have other corals? If so what other corals do you have? Is
the lighting brighter in your tank than the store's tank? Going to a
brighter tank, can cause them to lighten their colors, and it can
also cause them to darken their colors. Also different nutrient
levels in the water can also make a change in lightness and darkness
of corals. And other factors of water conditions can cause a change.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


*Mr No name* B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:55 AM:
I bought a orangish red digitata frag several months ago and it
looked great and grew fast for a long while. Over a month ago it
started turning pink and now it's very pink, I'm afraid to say
almost white pink. I've been reading about coral bleaching but
nothing really matches my situation. These have been pink for over
a month, maybe even a couple of months. The store I bought it from
has his "parent" frags growing great.

Any idea why this happens and what I can do? It's getting plenty
of light from my halides and actinics.

Thanks for the advice.

B