Acro Losing Color -

[Halnerd]

Hey All,
This is my first post on these forums, but I have been a reefer for over 20 years. I have just started diving headfirst into SPS. I have had just about every other type of coral out there, and even some SPS in the past with great results. However, this is my first dedicated SPS tank.
The tank is young, only been setup for about 6 months. Although I have had the rock for about 10. The tank is a 30 gallon ocean cube. I am running about 30 pounds of rock (mixed dry reef rock and live rock), about 20 lbs of live sand. The skimmer is a Reef Octopus 1000BH. Lighting is Coralife Aqualight Advance w/ stock 14k coralife bulb (though I have been using a Megachrome Crystal).
Chems: SG is 1.025, 10-11dKH, 430PPM Calcium, 78-80 Fahrenheit. 0ppm Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate.
For circulation I use two Koralia 1 pumps.
I do about a 5 gallon water change every two weeks with Salinity salt. I also dose Seachem Fusion 1 and 2 every 2or3 days to maintain all my chems.

So here's the problem. I have had great success with my Green and Red Monti Caps (Both doubled in size in two months!), and a brown acro, but my newest acro has lost almost all of his color. It hasn't "bleached", it has faded and lost his plum and teal coloration. It has also lost most of its brown as well. In my experience corals with not enough light brown out and lost secondary pigments and UV pigments. This coral has lost both. The store owner told me that this coral is from Bali, and that they are finicky, for what that is worth. I have no idea if my lighting is too much, too little, or the problem is somewhere else in the chain.

I could really use some help from more experienced SPS hobbyists.

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[AdamNC]

Acros are a funny sort. Some will color up immediately and some make take a year. I've got some in my tank that were bought near bleached and 8-10 months later they are just now starting to get some color. I've got another one that I moved from the rack to it's permanent spot and seems to be bleaching a little around the edges. It was placed maybe 1/2"-1" lower and 10"-12" to the left. And then there are some that got much more vivid a week or so after being in my tank. I've only been doing SPS for about a year and I'm finding patience is more valuable then tweaking and over worrying about if I'm doing anything right. Just keep your parameters in check, decent lighting and good flow and in time you will succeed.