Bleached but growing?

[bigworm175]

I've had this coral for about 2 months. It was green when I bought it and now you can detect just a hint of green under the 20k mh but it's mostly white. The thing is that it's growing quite quickly. The polyps don't extend much either but they're there. I've moved the light higher to try to "unbleach" it. It has to be alive if it continues to grow and the polyps extend (kind of), right?

 

[mike_cmu04]

DId you try moving it down maybe it is shocked by the light

 

[dixiedog]

I feel your pain. That looks exactly like my tricolor valida. I've started calling it it my "Snow White Valida"!

It was deep purple for several weeks, before I cut it off the plug and mounted it - in the same exact place it had always been. That was four months ago. Since then it has faded to white and gets very little PE. It keeps on growing, although it's mostly just encrusting-type growth.

 

[lolgranny]

How are your parameters?