When I first got it was somewhatbleached, quite worse than your first pic even........I was of course afraid of losing it, so I moved it low and mostly out of the light in an effort to make ti brown up and get some color. It worked, and now I am hoping I can get a deeper red out of it. Its a nice and dark reddish brown now, so Ive got soemthing to work with. What color it actually ends up is left to be seen
Yours still looks a little light imo, but I gotta say that is some pretty dang impressive growth for just 5 weeks on a coral that at first looked a little rough. Yes, I inspected your exif files. haha