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help me color up my hollywood stunner


marko

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so i have had a hollywood stunner for a year almost, and it has only ever been varying shades of brown in my tank, and it arrived a brilliant blue. i almost gave up and kept the various frags i made of it scattered around and never fed em (tore up the mother to put something else there). now i want to try to get them colorful - cuz when happy this coral is gorgeous.

 

i have a 27gal display cube with 2 24w T5s (blue and actinic) and a 150w 14000k MH. good flow as the tank is SPS heavy - my cali tort is blue so why isnt this stupid chalice. NO3 is 0.25ppm, PO4 is 0.04ppm (Red Sea), 10dkh, 420ppm Ca, my Mg dropped this week but normally at 1250ppm. I feed the fish 2x a day, and feed the SPS at least 2x a week. Target feed some other LPS with tweezers more often. Add 4ml Acropower and 1ml phytofeast daily. Im also about to install a FeO reactor to pull my PO4 down a little more and get my N:P ratio to be better (I keep feeding, my N refuses to go up).

 

so here comes the question - how can i help my stunner turn blue? right now they are low - at the sand bed and happy (growing slowly, but growing). what should i do?

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Id say I if all of your other corals are doing great I wouldnt go around tweaking everything to color up one coral. If you're dead set on trying to color it up I would say you're Mag is a little on the low side, and alk is on the high side, maybe try raising mag to the 1350-1400 area and brink alk down to 8.5 to 9. Have you tried different placements to either increase or decrease light exposure.

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i started it as getting a fairly high amount of light. about midway - same distance from the surface as it was in the tank i got it from (which was also lit by 150w MHs).

 

i wont go overboard. for instance, if someone says up PO4 - i say too bad, i like my acros better. but if i should try low flow, or very high flow, or something like that, im happy to.

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in my experience with the HW stunner the higher the light the more lighter the color is. The lower the light the more brown to purpelish it gets. I think the lighting is your key. slowly acclimate it to higher light and I bet you see the blueish tint begin to come back.

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