Help Maricultured colonies turning brown

[RealReef7]

Just started stocking my 300g sps tank, I bought 6 maricultured colonies, they all have great PE but within a week 4/6 colonies turned brown... I also have added aquacultured pieces and none of them have showed any signs of browning, I have no idea why! Will they stay brown forever? The only thing I did different is, I usually dip using Bayers but I ran out and instead I used coral revive to dip the maricultured colonies...

Lighting: Kessil A360W-400w halide-kessil A360W-400w halide-kessil A360W also supplementing with 8x 54 t5's.

My parameters are:
Cal: 480
Alk: 9-10 dkh
Nitrates: 0
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Phosphates .06-.08
temp: 78-80

Fish: sohal tang, powder blue tang, blue tang, yellow tang, purple tang, 2 platnium clown, kole tang, midas blenny, 2x starry blenny, watchmen goby, diamond goby, flamehawk, 2 coral beauty, yellow coris wrasse, dusky wrasse.

I feed nls pellets exclusively 3-5x a day

 

[reefsahoy]

From what i understand, the maricultured corals are farmed in the wild under the sun, they typically go through light shock and brown out, then eventually color back up or sometimes change color. Read this http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2166047

 

[RealReef7]

I know there are a ton of variables that come in play but is there a general time frame that I should expect for them to color up?

 

[RealReef7]

Do you think I should give the red sea coral coloration program a shot??

 

[Big E]

I know there are a ton of variables that come in play but is there a general time frame that I should expect for them to color up?

Could be a few months to over a year or more. Some won't go brown, some will retain colors and others will change colors. There's a lot of variables involved. If the colors were pastel at the start, browning is normal. The pastel coloration is almost always slightly bleached from transport and stress.

Do you think I should give the red sea coral coloration program a shot??

I wouldn't.......be patient and you'll be rewarded.

 

[plyle02]

Maricultured are so much fun, yes they will bleach, then typically settle. They tend to be a bit finicky, mainly because of them being farmed in the ocean, so you will have to be patient and provide VERY stable water. They usually brown on me when aquacultured tend to be more resilient, particularly when dipped for treatment, they don't respond to well, and almost always brown on me. The color will return, and usually will be unlike the color from the store, and definitely from the box they come in, as mentioned, they are usually bleached from shipping on arrival. That is the fun, you never know what you might end up with, sometimes a beauty, sometimes a beast

 

[C.Eymann]

people get hung up on thinking maricultured are more hardy then wild collected, when the reality is its no different, they are still making the jump from the ocean to a glass box with artificial lighting. It is common for them to brown out for a bit then slowly color up. I know it's more sustainable, but I'm not a huge fan of maricultured, as if it's being cultured, it's not going to be something unique or "new". I like getting my LFS to cut me off frags of uniquelying colored wild collected colonies to see how they develop.

 

[RealReef7]

This is the first day I got them, they were moved shortly after the picture. They are now about 8" directly under the halides. I know the blue one is a tenius, not sure about the other ones, I think a valida of some sort and a tabling milli. I paid $35 for each colony, they were at my LFS for about 2 weeks before I picked them up. From looking at these pictures, looks like they were already a little brown to start with :/.