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Chalice has completely browned out...


OCNcheffy

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Hey guys,

 

I'm in need of some assistance with this chalice.. I have a second chalice that is doing completely fine and is growing at a steady rate, but this one is having a very hard time. I've owned the chalice for about a year now, and it's been brown for a good half year. I've done many things to help such as moving to more light, moving to shade, increasing flow, and feeding. Nothing seems to help and it continues to look brown.

 

Here's some pics of when I got it:

 

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The bottom two pics are day one, and the top two pics are a week later. You can see how the pink/red has increased ten fold.

 

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Here it is two weeks after purchase. My initial thought was that it received too much light and too many nutrients due to feeding reef roids.

 

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Here's the current state of the chalice. Completely brown with white veins going through the frag.

 

My tank is a Nuvo 16 with an ocean revive T24 @ 50% blues/7% whites.

 

DKH is 9

Calcium is 450

Mag is 1350

Nitrates <3ppm

Phosphates 0

 

If any of you have more suggestions on what I can try, I'm all yours..

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Cannot say for sure .. I don't know the light u have .. What kind of light was the chalice under before?

 

Coral grow well under some nitrates and PO4. I have a chalice where my No3 and PO4 are at ~ 5ppm and 0.03~0.08 ppm respectively

 

For now just let it be where you have no too much light and keep ur parameters in check. Also drop some food every few days - hopefully it will come back

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don't know for sure what's going on. If it makes ya feel any better, same thing has happened to me with chalice, more than once. Just recently brought home a cultured piece that looked amazing when it came in. It's all brown now, and in same tank with some other cultured/wild pieces that are coloring up and doing fine. Have another brownie that has been brown for years, different tanks, different lighting, placement, dips, just wants to be a brown chalice

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Polarcollision

Here's a few ideas that have worked for me...

 

My chalices loose color if I don't watch the alk reservoir and have an alk swing. I've also lost pink colors on other corals when I raised magnesium too quickly (more than 20 ppm a day).

 

I personally would troubleshoot lighting levels in this instance. When I first got my bubblegum monster chalice, It went from green and pink to a pale peach--all due to spectrum and intensity changes. I see that happening in your color change pics from greenish to pink. The second issue where it turned brown from pink looks more like a lack of lighting and/or lack of amino acid or other nutrient. Get your phosphates back up to at least 0.03 and your nitrates up to around 1 and see if the color doesn't come back.

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Here's a few ideas that have worked for me...

 

My chalices loose color if I don't watch the alk reservoir and have an alk swing. I've also lost pink colors on other corals when I raised magnesium too quickly (more than 20 ppm a day).

 

I personally would troubleshoot lighting levels in this instance. When I first got my bubblegum monster chalice, It went from green and pink to a pale peach--all due to spectrum and intensity changes. I see that happening in your color change pics from greenish to pink. The second issue where it turned brown from pink looks more like a lack of lighting and/or lack of amino acid or other nutrient. Get your phosphates back up to at least 0.03 and your nitrates up to around 1 and see if the color doesn't come back.

This is a great suggestion! I'll stop vodka dosing, bring it more into the light, then see how things change. Maybe I am running my tank too clean.

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