Dragon Soul Favia experiences...

[tfp]

when i got it back in November 2009, it was a colorful frag. its grown into the size of a baseball now but the colors are just blah .

whats your experience with this guy?

 

[philosophile]

Corals tend to brown up because of the lighting you give them. Maybe too much red shifted in your T5s? When is the last time you changed your bulbs? It could be that they have just too much light too.

 

[seapug]

try giving it a bit more light, but it's common for small frags to appear more colorful because there is a larger proportion of growth points where colors tend to be more intense. As a colony grows and matures those highly colored areas can become less noticeable.

 

[Reef Bass]

That's a lovely piece, and congrats on growing it nicely. It looks different from my Dragon Soul Favia. If you hadn't called it a Dragon Soul, I would have guessed it was a prism variant. May be a case of different vendors calling different things by the same name.

 

[tfp]

thanks for the feedback. if you guys got pics of yours, feel free to add them to the thread. i'll try to find a higher spot in the sps rent district or sell/trade it to someone that has the space.

 

[ghostman]

My dragon soul is next to my zoos, and recieves little light since a plating monti is above it. It is very colorful, and has grown significantly, encroaching on other corals. I don't want to confuse, but IME mine loves low light.

 

[tfp]

ya know what ghostman, i'm thinking the same thing. i'm going to give it less light and see what happens.

 

[c.declivisowner]

hey tfp
your in folsom so you might know what im talking about but does your favia have any relation with your reef aquariums in roseville dragons revenge favia cause mine has bad color too?

 

[celamb89]

Here is mine a couple of months ago...

Low light high flow, its under 6x54w T5 2 inches above the sand in a 23 inch deep tank...

 

[tfp]

C decliv - it may have originated from YR. I got a frag of it from a local friend (little_d).
C lamb - gorgeous piece! Hope it keeps that color as it grows up.

 

[frctlimg]

Here's a frag I had growing in my 12 gallon nano cube. It seemed to have the best colors when my mag was high. Around 1400ppm.

 

[Stu Pickles]

I just got my piece.I Will see if I can get a decent picture of it tomorrow with the lights on.

 

[Stu Pickles]

Phone pic at the moment. Cant find the charger for my camer.

 

[Justin74]

Tim: I second the suggestion of trying very subdued lighting. I noticed that with one of my colonies, if I wanted to pop the purple and get the brown pigment out of the flesh I had to shade it much more. While the glow green lost a little intensity vs. being in high light, once I got the purple back the contrasting colors made up for that and appeared just as bright.

Assuming, there's no spectral shifts in any bulbs

Might take a little longer than just a few weeks to get the total effect, one way or the other due to trasferring/importing appropriate zooxanthelae. I'd imagine you'd go through a pale brown stage before the purple starts to take more residence.


-Justin

 

[rpjaws74]

nice coral