hey dave or richard

joeycadre

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you guys saw this coral when i got it. take a look now and tell me if you know any reason why it would be losing its color like this....

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Other than little to no polyp extension, I think it looks good. Nice blue tips. It may take some corals a little while to adjust to the different conditions you have versus the tank they came from. The lighting may be different, flow may be different, etc.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7756550#post7756550 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joeycadre
too little? too much?

Might be too much. Hard to say at this time.
Could just be a case of too different or too different too soon.
The reason I said it was probably the light is because when Richard had his corals under that type of light many of them would be lighter in color as well vs what they were before or what they were like in others care.
 
It thrived under 400 watt 10 k in my tank.

The color was yellow to tan on older tissue and bright purple on the growing tips. Up to an inch can be purple when it is growing fast.

The same coral was much darker and thicker growing in Kermit's display tank under it's light and water movement.

I only saw polyp extension in my tank at night. Once the lights came on the polyps were gone.

good luck
 
thanks. it still has nice blue tips so i'm not freaking out about it that much. i'm just wondering if the problem is UV from this hqi i have over it. i can't figure out why almost all of my sps's are fading like this.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7778064#post7778064 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by joeycadre
thanks. it still has nice blue tips so i'm not freaking out about it that much. i'm just wondering if the problem is UV from this hqi i have over it. i can't figure out why almost all of my sps's are fading like this.


Since Richard had similar concerns with the very same light I wonder if it's too close or if the glass in the fixture is not an appropriate UV filter.
 
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