I am wondering how I can get my acros to colour up? When I first got the frag it was completely blue with green tips and at the time my tank was not exactly that stable and so it turned brown. Since then I have brought all the params under control and its got some colour back in it but nothing like what originally had. It is growing well enough & does have a blue hue to it on all the areas of new growth, no lumo green tips though
My tank is being dosed with Brightwells Microbacter7 (4ml a day), I was dosing reef fuel in conjunction with the mb7 (2ml daily), but I stopped with it a while back as it seemed to be causing horrid algae outbreaks. Since stopping the reef fuel the algae has been brought under control, so i seem to on the right track there. Other than that I do a 20% weekly wc using aqua v salinity salt and only really add Seachem Reef Builder to the daily RO top ups keep the KH stable.
Am i missing something here? I was adding calcium, mg etc but cut it out in favor of the weekly wc, since then the params have remained the same so not sure that the lack of colour is being caused by that.
Here are some pics, they dont really capture the colour exactly as it looks to the eye. It looks more blue real life
Here is a pic of the piece in Dec last year:
And here it is this weekend:
Closer pic from the week before:
Will the colour ever fully return or will I be stuck with the brown forever? Also since dosing the mb7 the polyps only extend at night. They used to be rather large 24/7, I assume due to the water being kind of dirty. The piece is growing pretty well so Im a bit lost with regards of how to solve this issue.
Any help or advice would be appreciated
My tank is being dosed with Brightwells Microbacter7 (4ml a day), I was dosing reef fuel in conjunction with the mb7 (2ml daily), but I stopped with it a while back as it seemed to be causing horrid algae outbreaks. Since stopping the reef fuel the algae has been brought under control, so i seem to on the right track there. Other than that I do a 20% weekly wc using aqua v salinity salt and only really add Seachem Reef Builder to the daily RO top ups keep the KH stable.
Am i missing something here? I was adding calcium, mg etc but cut it out in favor of the weekly wc, since then the params have remained the same so not sure that the lack of colour is being caused by that.
Here are some pics, they dont really capture the colour exactly as it looks to the eye. It looks more blue real life
Here is a pic of the piece in Dec last year:
And here it is this weekend:
Closer pic from the week before:
Will the colour ever fully return or will I be stuck with the brown forever? Also since dosing the mb7 the polyps only extend at night. They used to be rather large 24/7, I assume due to the water being kind of dirty. The piece is growing pretty well so Im a bit lost with regards of how to solve this issue.
Any help or advice would be appreciated