[jackson6745]

Dave, I do agree with you but another thing that I have noticed is when you have those deep rich colors you are putting a lot of nutrients into your reef. If you are mainly relying on your skimmer, and for some reason or another it doesn't perform well, you run the risk of a Po4 spike which will cause some STN/RTN (also a lot of browning)
In the past, as you know, I had a low nutient starved reef with those pastel colors. Growth and survival rate was awesome!!! I only lost 1 acro in 2 1/2 years which was a wild stylophora colony
Now, I am trying to get myself in the middle somewhere. I can live without thos deep rich colors but I don't want those faded pastel colors. My thinking behind this is that I can benifit from the growth and longevity of the lower nutient reef, but have somewhat deeper color from a moderate feeding/bioload. We'll see???