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rholguin
10/29/2007, 01:31 AM
I have had my cap for about 3wks now and just this past weekend it started to look like this. Lighting is a nova extreme ho t-5 fixture 4bulbs 1-10k, 1-20k, 2 420nb acintics. I have checked all my water par. and all are ok. The rest of my sps are doing great. please help.
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rholguin
10/30/2007, 12:21 AM
Anyone. Help!!

Scissorhand
10/30/2007, 01:36 AM
weird.

maybe it's not "orange"

it would be the last one to go if your sps goes south.

aquarius77
10/30/2007, 01:38 AM
What water parameters are you testing what are the readings and how are you testing them.

rholguin
10/30/2007, 12:00 PM
I test for calcium, alk, nitrite, nitrate, ammonia, phosphate, anh ph. I use api test kit. I usually test before and after water changes. ca-460, alk- 9dkh, amm-0, trite-0, trate- 15-20. ph-8.4

arts007
10/30/2007, 12:17 PM
Do you know what kind of lighting it was in before?
Did you light acclimate it?

How close is it to the lights?

What are your phosphate levels?
What are your magnesium levels?

Whats the salinity?
Temp ?

Caps are usually pretty tolerant and resilient, I would move it down from the light for awhile and see if it recovers

carman9941
10/30/2007, 12:37 PM
nudies?

rholguin
10/30/2007, 02:07 PM
Phosphate levels are at zero and sal-1.024. I do no test for mag. the temp is about 78degrees. I have it placed about half way down my tank. I do not know what kind of light it was in before. I checked for nudies and did not see anything.

arts007
10/30/2007, 03:43 PM
Move it down for awhile, it does look like it was once orange. I had one like that given to me and left it on the bottom for awhile and it did recover