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04/07/2007, 11:48 AM
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Cap bleaching??
Ive had my cap for around 2 years now and recently it has lightened up some, could this be do to my nitrates at around 10 or so....Or would this be caused by phosphates..I havent tested my phosphates with a good test kit.
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04/07/2007, 01:24 PM
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10 ppm no3 will not hurt a thing. heck it may even help. Have you changed your lighting?
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04/07/2007, 08:56 PM
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Did you trim anything lately? I trimmed an xenia forest and forgot to do a water change. Next morning my caps and digis were all radioactive looking... After about two weeks they came back....
So again, trim anything lately??? Spank.
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04/08/2007, 09:35 AM
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no havent trimmmed anything, although I did put in a new pair of xm20k, my other ones were prolly pretty weak since I ran them for a little over a year....should I lower him for a while?
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04/08/2007, 09:57 AM
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I had the same kinda problem. I changed my ighting to Ham 20k. The corals did not like it, but its been about 3 weeks now and the are starting to come back. I might try shorter light time
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04/08/2007, 10:18 AM
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Yep thats most likely it. The bulb change. Cut down on the on time for a few weeks and they should come back..
Good luck 
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04/08/2007, 05:58 PM
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How about nudibranches..
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04/09/2007, 06:33 AM
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04/10/2007, 04:41 PM
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I can see the polyps out so thats good, I dropped my light time around 2 hours...hopefully it starts showing some color soon its making me nervous
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