shih87 說：

My SPS are growing and look healthy to me.....However, the color is not come out. Most SPS are stay with their color, but not bright, and Staghorn most stay in brown color. After searching in forum, I did some changes recently but not sure I am doing right or wrong, please let me know if I should change direction or pay some attention in something else?

Here is my data so far...
Tank size = 125 gallon display tank
light: HQI 400W 15000k x 2 + T5 Blue x2 and pink x2
temp: 79
PH: 8.4 (day); 8.15 (night)
ORP: 290 ~ 340
Salinity= 1.025 (refractometer which just calibrated)
KH=7.7 (recently move up from 6.5 by 0.1~0.2 increase daily)
NO3= 0.2 (Salifert)
PO4=0.03 (Hana)
Ca=450 ppm (Salifert)
Mg= 1300 ppm (Salifert)
K+= 440 ppm (Red Sea...I am not sure about this reading, but had checked with new mixed Brightwell coral salt and reading at 420 ppm, which is pretty close to the label said)

I was doing the following for at least two months

Zeolites = 1 liter (3 hours on, 3 hours off cycle)
Bak: 5 drops every T, TH, Sa
Start3: total 1ml dosing at 6 am and 6 pm
Sponge power: 5 drops per day
Amino Acid : 5 drops per day
Coral Vitalizer: 5 drops per day
Food7: 5 drops oer day

Since last two weeks, my changes as the following
Bak: reduce to 5 drops twice a week (T, F)
Start3: reduce to total 0.8 ml doing at 6 am and 6 pm
Food7: stop
Xtra: 2ml per day
Jod Komplex (Iodide): 2 drops per day


Please advice...

Some recent pictures as below....

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G.Alexander 說：

The additional zeovit and flow through the reactor should be helpful to bring down nutrient slowly. Once they are not detectable you might be able to reduce the quantity again. Lighting spectrum should now be OK after the change. For a 500 liter net water volume you can start dosing ZeoSpur2 @ 3 ml once. If you do not notice any changes from this quantity slowly increase it in 10 – 15 5 steps but allow a doing break of minimum one week between the additions.

G.Alexander

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shih87 說：

Currently I added ZeoSpur up to 4.3 ml on my last dosing, but color improvement is still limited (a close look I can still see some change, though). My next adding date is 6/11 and I plan to increase it to 4.7 ml.
BTW, my NO3 still keep at 1 ppm and PO4 at 0.03~0.04 after turn the creator on from 3 hour-on/3 hour-off pattern to 24x7 on. I am thinking stop dosing CV and Amino Acid temporary, does it make sense? Thanks in advance.

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G.Alexander 說：

Your plan sounds good stopping CV and AAHC for some time will not hurt, alternatively you can cut down each to 3 drops 2 x weekly.

G.Alexander

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ERIC0821 說：

你這就沒顏色喔，我暈了我

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IS 說：

G.Alexander 是 zeovit 的大佬
shih兄你的美缸指日可待了

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shih87 說：

義仔老師，你要看第一張然後再跟http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1965866&highlight=vodka 比較一下就知道真的差有夠多的

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ERIC0821 說：

沒錯基因才是王道
至於使用ㄒ5會不會比較夢幻，我想這要看燈光配置
老外很多人喜歡使用比例較高的藍燈，顯色上當然會有
假像，舉例說明一下很多人喜歡奧樂岡，因為老外的照片
整顆是藍色或紫色，但我與朋友養的奧樂岡卻不是如此
只有頭端有一些顏色，也許你會說是我養的不好
但我保證我朋友整缸硬骨都在水準之上
我以前也是覺得ㄒ5不易顯示咖啡色
但使用ㄒ5以後整體顯色卻比HQI 14000K差
原因應該是我使用燈光配置7白2藍1紫的原因
後來改成5白4藍1紫還是比HQI一萬四千k差
但我也沒在加藍燈了，因為這不是我的風格

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shih87 說：

分享一下在Zeovit.com 與亞力山大的對談.....最近正在苦惱珊瑚不顯色。基本上他建議我將NO3再由1ppm 降到接近零，再用ZeoSpur將顏色帶出來。其他珊瑚食物( CV 和胺基酸)可暫停。

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ab333647 說：

shih兄 你這樣哪叫沒顏色啊~
另外RC那缸看起來是T5光源...比起HQI光源的當然會夢幻許多XD
我覺得你也可以從另外兩個方面下手
一個是品種的挑選 直接挑別人調理好的人工品種來飼養...
盡量不要挑那些顏色相對深的野生品種...
另外就是換一台相機啦

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ERIC0821 說：

沒錯基因才是王道
至於使用ㄒ5會不會比較夢幻，我想這要看燈光配置
老外很多人喜歡使用比例較高的藍燈，顯色上當然會有
假像，舉例說明一下很多人喜歡奧樂岡，因為老外的照片
整顆是藍色或紫色，但我與朋友養的奧樂岡卻不是如此
只有頭端有一些顏色，也許你會說是我養的不好
但我保證我朋友整缸硬骨都在水準之上
我以前也是覺得ㄒ5不易顯示咖啡色
但使用ㄒ5以後整體顯色卻比HQI 14000K差
原因應該是我使用燈光配置7白2藍1紫的原因
後來改成5白4藍1紫還是比HQI一萬四千k差
但我也沒在加藍燈了，因為這不是我的風格

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ab333647 說：

同意老外非常喜歡用高比例藍燈...
看照片不太準(因為看起來都白白的但是SPS就是很漂亮，會以為是白燈為主)
HQI的使用者使用大量20000K的比比皆是 就連補的T5燈也都是藍色燈館紫色燈管為主
全T5的八燈只用兩個白燈的也比比皆是

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KK759299 說：

請問使用spur2 有風險嗎

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