Is my white frogspawn bleached?

[Waleedwale1]

I picked up a light blue frogspawn about 2 months ago and it has slowly turned white. Seems to be opening up good and looks healthy, don't have high lighting either. I have the stock biocube lighting, 2 power compacts, and my octospawn and other frogspawn is doing fine. Is the coral bleached? How can I bring it back? I tried feeding but the coral doesn't grab any mysis or brine shrimp. I keep nitrates below 20.

 

[troywalkerphoto]

everything except the hammer looks a little tight. Not extending. 20 sounds high for nitrates in such a small tank. are you running any atinics or coral plus in the 2 bulb combo?

 

[Waleedwale1]

everything except the hammer looks a little tight. Not extending. 20 sounds high for nitrates in such a small tank. are you running any atinics or coral plus in the 2 bulb combo?

Not running anything anything except the 2 bulb combo, one of the bulbs is blue though. I'm getting reef breeder LEDs in a few weeks. The octospawn opens that much daily, I've had it for 2 months, tiny head. The frogspawn usually opens more, hermit knocked it down at night and it was tilted so I fixed it.
Here's a pic with the blue bulb

 

[Rob&Gab]

how big is your tank bro?

 

[Tonyscoots84]

it looks fine just bothered....

 

[Waleedwale1]

how big is your tank bro?

Biocube 29

 

[ckramer215]

do a small weekly water change tp help bring down your nitrates

 

[pkane11384]

Waleed how often do you do water changes? They should be extended way more than that with your lights on your photo period

 

[ckramer215]

I had some problems with my levels in the pasted but for the last 6 months i bin doing 20% water changes weekly. My corals are happy and growing very well. What a big change it made in my reef tank

 

[pkane11384]

I had some problems with my levels in the pasted but for the last 6 months i bin doing 20% water changes weekly. My corals are happy and growing very well. What a big change it made in my reef tank

+1 I was having the same problem in my BC29 and actually ended up losing a few corals. New lights and weekly water changes of 5 gallons changed all that

 

[Waleedwale1]

I usually did a 50 percent about every 10 days, nitrates keep shooting back up. I have a CPR SR3, some chaeto and dragons breath growing in the display. Feeding frozen brine and mysis every other day. I think that I need to pick up a different test kit.

 

[pkane11384]

You need to start running some chemi-pure and purigen in there somewhere too. Are you rinsing the frozen foor before you feed?

 

[Waleedwale1]

You need to start running some chemi-pure and purigen in there somewhere too. Are you rinsing the frozen foor before you feed?

I am running a 100 mL bag of
Purigen, no chemi pure though. What I do with frozen food is I put it in this little cup with saltwater, then take a net and hold it over the cup while I dump the water in the cup into my skimmers collection container, and them i put the food into the tank. I should be able to order my lighting in about 3 weeks.

 

[pkane11384]

Also mix your feedings up. I'm feeding everything in my tank rods food once a week, and it's usually the day before a water change. Use some flake too. I feed flake every other day or two with feedings of phytoplankton for the filter feeders and I dont have nitrate problems (Not like I test for them anyway)

 

[Waleedwale1]

Also mix your feedings up. I'm feeding everything in my tank rods food once a week, and it's usually the day before a water change. Use some flake too. I feed flake every other day or two with feedings of phytoplankton for the filter feeders and I dont have nitrate problems (Not like I test for them anyway)

I have new life spectrum pellets, some omega pellets, and some formula 1 flakes.

 

[Waleedwale1]

Gonna do a 25 percent water change tonite

 

[under10minutes]

I am running a 100 mL bag of
Purigen, no chemi pure though. What I do with frozen food is I put it in this little cup with saltwater, then take a net and hold it over the cup while I dump the water in the cup into my skimmers collection container, and them i put the food into the tank. I should be able to order my lighting in about 3 weeks.

Just curious why the straining of the food? Just want to make sure im not missing something as my nitrates are on the high side.

 

[pkane11384]

The liquid it's frozen in is crazy high in nitrates and phosphates

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747 using Reefs

 

[Waleedwale1]

the liquid it's frozen in is crazy high in nitrates and phosphates

sent from my samsung-sgh-i747 using reefs

+1