For the past few months I havent been able to really have much luck with caps or montis in my tank. I have a setosa montipora for 6months or so and it is growing great and has great color and polys. I had a really nice white with neon green monti that grew like a weed as well as a while and purple one. Over night they completly bleached out and died, something thing with a nice green cap I had. I figured this was because one of my MH pendants ended up coming off the hook from the ceiling and dropped down a good 4-6" closer to the water. I figured the high PAR value that they were suddenly exposed to bleached them out. The light only affected one 1/3 of the tank, so the setosa was fine. I end up getting a reverse super man monti, sunset monti and and ORA purpled rimmed green cap. The 2 montis I placed very low in the tank, inches from the sand bed. The cap I started low and gradually moved it up over the period of the week. Now I have it pretty high in the tank, a little more than half way up in a 180gal. The cap is starting to brown out very slightly after a few days and ones portion over where it was touching the live rock, something ate away at a good peice of the cap over night. The reverse sunset monti bleached out but still has awesome polyp extension and is even growing a little, the new growth is green as it should be, the reverse superman monti is also slowly fading but barely has any polyp extension.
This is a mainly sps tank, with all of my sps growing great and having great polyp extension. I do weekly 30gal water changes with salt mixed at 1.026. Ph is usually 8.1-8.2., I have calcium and kalk reactor, calcium is usually around 420ish Temp is always in the high 70s, which I know is a little bit of a problem, but I dont think this issue would just affect the montis and caps and not the sps. I use Red Sea Coral Pro, which is what a few people have told could be what the problem is.
This is a mainly sps tank, with all of my sps growing great and having great polyp extension. I do weekly 30gal water changes with salt mixed at 1.026. Ph is usually 8.1-8.2., I have calcium and kalk reactor, calcium is usually around 420ish Temp is always in the high 70s, which I know is a little bit of a problem, but I dont think this issue would just affect the montis and caps and not the sps. I use Red Sea Coral Pro, which is what a few people have told could be what the problem is.