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
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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
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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
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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