Frogspawn.. changing color

[autojunkie88]

I purchased 2 colonies of frogspawn attached to the same piece of tonga branch maybe a month ago. My question is.. One of them has turned alot brighter then the other. the green is brighter but the pink tips are almost white. I dont know if thats a bad sign or not. Any input is appreciated.

 

[autojunkie88]

attached is the pic.... the one on the left is what they both used to look like. Sorry for quality my gfs phone is a piece.

 

[autojunkie88]

in addition they polyps are not coming out.. This may be cause by us losing power for about 8 hours from the hurricane.

 

[iamwrasseman]

tough to see in the picture but very often they will be different colors when recessed which is what i see in your picture i think .

 

[autojunkie88]

Yea? I hope tomorrow when I take a look they expand. I may be a bit paranoid about it. The sps is looking better then ever... With an exception to the diatom outbreak (due to adding new sand) nothing seems to be different. I thought it was a form of algae until the forums pointed out the diatom aspect.

 

[organism]

hmmm, that doesn't look brighter as much as bleached, I think it might be getting too much light. imo it would do well on the sandbed maybe in the shade for a little bit, if it's bleached I'd get it there asap since they can stress out pretty fast, can you get better pics?

 

[autojunkie88]

hmm, yea I will move it there asap. I have 400w MH's. Its just strange that it would be fine for several weeks and just now stress out. But hey, thats the nature of the beast I guess

 

[autojunkie88]

So here are some more pics. As of today they are both bleached. I ran params and all are fine. Any ideas??

 

[organism]

Most likely they got hit with too much light, if you put them in a kind of shaded area like under an overhang they should bounce back though

 

[ehren78]

Did you have a battery operated pump in your tank during the power issue? 8 hours is a long time, long enough to stress them out. How do all your other corals look, from your pic I don't see much at all. How often do you do water changes?

 

[autojunkie88]

No battery powered.. Always doing water changes. I do about 5 gal 3 times a week. I did move them to the side of the tank in the sand.. we ll see what happens.. The sps looks fine. It has been in the sand for a week now, and I am going to move it up higher.