Help with Pink Lemonade...

[AdamDeMamp]

You usually get bleaching when you have too much light.

Do you think I should move it back up? It used to be as high as I could put it. I hit it with the house with light.

 

[jporter]

I think yours looks fine. I agree the new growth looks good and i would let it be. This is what mine looks like.

 

[trueblackpercula]

I think yours looks fine. I agree the new growth looks good and i would let it be. This is what mine looks like.

Very nice looking sps and the color is simply amazing.
What lighting do you have?

 

[Reef Bass]

Two macro shots of my bud's PL

High par, high flow

 

[trueblackpercula]

What's high par and what lighting as I am in the market for lighting

 

[Reef1589]

Yaa.. my polyps arrnt that pink...

 

[blakers82]

OP: Your frag looks to be growing well. I wouldn't worry about the polyp extension. I believe it will eventually have better polyp extension with bigger base and more branches.

It seems lighting has become the topic in this thread. I have my PL directly under 250w Radiums although a good distance from the light. Although I did recently switched to Pheonix SE. Steady growth and I would say the colors are steadily improving. Oh, I grew mine from a !single polyp! so it has taken a while to get to the large frag stage it is in now. I need to take some pics one of these days.

 

[Reef Bass]

What's high par and what lighting as I am in the market for lighting

He's running 14k MHs and T5 purple and blue supplements. He built his hood and used super efficient reflectors. A couple inches down he gets 850 par. This PL was in at least 500 par.

 

[trueblackpercula]

I have 400watt with t12 150 can you possibly send me a pm with some insight of your set up? I don't want to derail this thread

 

[Reef Bass]

pm sent

 

[potterjon]

I have had one for a few years. Unfortunately I had to move my tank and lost most of it. Here it is a couple years after the move. Notice the polyps in the flow have the most color even though they are the lowest in the tank. Mine is growing kind of weird because it has been relocated several times over the last few years. Yours looks fine btw, I wish mine had a little green in it. It will grow into the light and the colors will change the higher it gets. Let it grown into color I guess is what I am saying, instead of trying to move it up into the area that shows the best color. I just turned on the actinics for this pic.
I also have a pack for sale that has this coral in it if anyone is interested in the for sale forum. Mine is under t5's.

 

[potterjon]

Flow has a lot to do with all corals in my opinion.

 

[this is me]

That's a nice frag and good growth on it. I feel like forever waiting for mine to grow.
Here's mine under 250 Phoenix. Took a year to encrust on sprout new branch. The original branch is still the same size.

 

[potterjon]

I always feel like the more tips you have the more growth you see. I don't know if that makes any sense and it may just be an illusion, but three tips growing seems faster than one tip growing.

 

[potterjon]

This is another piece on other side of thank. It has taken awhile to encrust also.

 

[CUNAReefer]

Here's mine.