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Over to the experts ! Any idea why my yellow turbarni is loseing its colour, I have had high nitrate for a couple of days but it is now back close to 0ppm. The coral is near the top of the tank and gets 8hrs a day under the metal Halide ? Could it have been the Nitrate ?

Thanks for the advice, snapped off the branch that was purple and my branching torch coral now looks ok for now ! Increase salinity to 1.025 and going to buy a better test kit this weekend

I only have a basic test kit Ammonia NH3/NH+4 = 0ppm Nitrite No2 = 0ppm Saltwater PH = 8.2 Nitrate No-3 = 5ppm Salt 1.022 Temp 25.3 The tenticals start of by turning purple and then they dissapear as you can see from the photos the rest of it looks fine. It is not next to any other corals...

I could so with some advice, I purchase a pinky coloured Acropora about 6 weeks ago everthing was fine until about 1 week ago where one of the branches died off. Now the surrounding ones have retracted and look a purple colour. Any idea what I am doing wrong ? Lighting 150w Metal Halide for...