Garf Bonsai: Brown or Bleaching? Should I Move?

[Colione]

Hi All,

I bought a variety of pieces from Steve Garrett. All are doing excellent except for the Garf Bonsai is discoloring a little bit. Parts of it look like it's bleaching and parts look like it's browning.

I've read a ton of threads about placement, some have great results high light, some low light, and with me not knowing whether this is bleaching or browning, I'm not sure if I know what to do (or should do anything?)


Tank:
6 t5s. on stands only a few inches off the glass.
18" tall tank.
Params

Ca: 440
Alk: 10
Mg: 1350
Phos: 0.04
Nitrates: 0.0


All other SPS is great and growing.


But right now, the Garf Bonsai a few inches off the ground, fairly low for an SPS in the tank. At it's base a bit looks like it's browning, and a bit looks like it's turning white / bleaching.

Should I move it to lower light? or leave it be? I glued it down, so I'd rather not move it, but I fear it might continue losing color.

Medium Tank Shot:

Close up Shot (taken with iPhone, so the color is a bit wonky, but look at the base and in the middle, and you can see it's void of purple)

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks.

 

[baskin]

iam no expert. but it looks happy to me. polyp extension looks good. it probably just needs some time. new frags may lose a little color at first and then come back in a month or so.

 

[SBRob]

+1 looks good to me. Just needs time

 

[jamey1015]

Mine have been more purple lower in the tank and lighter the higher up they are. Yours looks good! Let it settle in and it will take off.

 

[MammothReefer]

It's fine. I would leave it be. Steve's corals come grown under the sun & halide. So you can expect some sort of shift. With that said I can't get my Bonsai to colour up for the life of me I got it from Atlantis. I did just get a dozen or so frags from Steve and they all love being exposed to every bit of light I have they are acclimated to a lot of light coming out of his system.

 

[paulywog0667]

some corals just do that until they settle in. I have a huge tricolor leather I frag all the time and they go brown then color up after a bit in their final location. It could be shock from transport or like mentioned the shift in lighting