sps after turn brown can revive it's color back?

[seanhorsay]

Hi reefers, juz wana ask any exp reefer here manage 2 bring back sps original colors after turning brown? Or act "tats the end" 4 ur sps, once turn brown & wil stay permanent? Thx mate..

[Kelvin81]

It will come back if everything were right.

[Admiraltian]

Adequate lighting, good water conditions & sufficient flow. Colors could come back and improves but dun expect miracles as it takes time to heal. Adding amino acids and trace elements also help in improving coral's health & colors.

[Evolutionz]

it will come back but it might take a very long time to do so.

[braincoral]

Fast..3 months..

Slow..1 yr

[staromsa]

For me, given it excellent parameters, 1months. Will colour up at least 60%

[seanhorsay]

Hi guys, thanks 4 ur enlightenment & encouragement. @ least nw I knw tat i wun b wasting my effort 2 bring its life.. hopefully..

[tamama]

Assuming if the condition is right, it still depends on the types of sps. It takes 3 to 6 months for my own experience.

[FishC]

sometimes sps from the wild turns brown in our tank...

after a few mths, it just suddenly bounces back and changes to a even more colorful coral.

This is wat is commonly know as tank acclimatization i belive..

just live peacock need to be ugly before it become beautiful.

[Evolutionz]

Agree with fishc! One of my wild colony turned paled and still waiting for it to color up

[kt611]

For sps , the most important thing i think is KH. If u can maintain kh (not up and down). I am sure color will be back. Even my brown ssc also color up

[Evolutionz]

wow amazing color! hope my brown SSC can color up like that!

[Kelvin81]

Maintain good water parameter is important. This stag slowly color up.. in about 3 weeks

[kt611]

My red stag after stable KH

[nicreef]

how do you define stable KH?

my kh can drop by .2 per day. if i let it drop by .5 and boost it back to normal (8) would that be considered as a fluctuation?

on average i realize i am dosing 20ml of sodium bi carbonate per day. (manual dosing - waiting for dosing pump to arrive at madpet).

would this be considered unstable?

[sherman]

Try to maintain your KH from fluctuating more then 1 within a day.

The lower the better

[kt611]

Dropped to 5 is danger ready. Some might stn. I used CR to control the KH, if use dosing pump also can. Must calculate properly n replace back. If buy new colony or add some frags must measure again. The KH might dropped more! Then resetting again. This is wht i do.....

[nicreef]

Try to maintain your KH from fluctuating more then 1 within a day.

The lower the better

ok thx. suspect main reason of flucation is due to evaporation...top up 4l per day....

Dropped to 5 is danger ready. Some might stn. I used CR to control the KH, if use dosing pump also can. Must calculate properly n replace back. If buy new colony or add some frags must measure again. The KH might dropped more! Then resetting again. This is wht i do.....

haha sorry is 0.5 i just put .5 earlier =p