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Old 10/06/2007, 07:11 AM
jmaneyapanda jmaneyapanda is offline
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Originally posted by kysard1
My tank is 30x18x21".

Waterflow : Vortech and a closed loop.
Light : 250W 10k Ushio with the SPS in the top 1/3 directly under the bulb.

I have a hard time thinking that lack of waterflow and lighting caused these corals to brown.

I like scientific hypothesis just as much as the next guy. But we need empiricism folks. These theories are nothing more than science fiction without experiements and data from reef aquaria.

How about some real life accounts ?
HA! No offense, but this is what I have been begging for this entire thread. And the only posters who have said said anything but speculation have been Mntl and MCsax.

Using your own mantra here, where is the empirical evidence that it is nutrients that cuase the colors to brown? Mntl has provided some borderline empirical work, but this is just as speculative as you are calling out other theories to be.
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