How to get pink color back

[Kaman8]

I ordered a bi-color millepora from the lfs last week and I will pick it up today, but he message me that the color has changed. The pink color is fading and ask me if I still want it if he sell it to me much cheaper then before. So I thought for 10 dollar now, I will give it a try. He kept it under T5HO 4x54 watt. I have 2 xr15w pro , my lights are much stronger then his light. So I will place it lower in the tank and slowy raise it. Do you think the pink color will come back? What is the placement for bi-color millepora? Any help would be appropriate. Thanks



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[Kaman8]

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[sahin]

Is it a maricultured piece? Some of these maricultured millis lose colours easily;especially anything ones with more than 1colour.

It is a gamble. It may colour up same, better or stay same.

 

[trueblackpercula]

Is it a maricultured piece? Some of these maricultured millis lose colours easily;especially anything ones with more than 1colour.

It is a gamble. It may colour up same, better or stay same.

+1

I totally agree that if its a matriculated piece it will take some time for it to display its pink color again. I have one very close to my LED and it has the tri color that yours once had. They like very intense blue lighting to color back up and high water flow and high quality water is a must. I even feed mine every 7 days and this also helps. check out my tank thread and you will be able to see all my mari pieces.

good luck and that's a nice milli for $10 bucks

 

[Kaman8]

+1

I totally agree that if its a matriculated piece it will take some time for it to display its pink color again. I have one very close to my LED and it has the tri color that yours once had. They like very intense blue lighting to color back up and high water flow and high quality water is a must. I even feed mine every 7 days and this also helps. check out my tank thread and you will be able to see all my mari pieces.

good luck and that's a nice milli for $10 bucks

It's a wild piece. It have good PE so I thought I will give it a try for 10 dollar.

We in HK don't have aquaculture sps. We only have mariculture and wild pieces. I have a few more wild pieces sps in my tank and doing very great so far, have it for a few months.

 

[Piper27]

+1

I totally agree that if its a matriculated piece it will take some time for it to display its pink color again. I have one very close to my LED and it has the tri color that yours once had. They like very intense blue lighting to color back up and high water flow and high quality water is a must. I even feed mine every 7 days and this also helps. check out my tank thread and you will be able to see all my mari pieces.

good luck and that's a nice milli for $10 bucks

Why do you say they like very intense blue lighting to color up? I have found reds and pinks easier to keep under more of a 10k bulb in my experience. Especially the Mariculture and wild ones.

 

[sahin]

Why do you say they like very intense blue lighting to color up? I have found reds and pinks easier to keep under more of a 10k bulb in my experience. Especially the Mariculture and wild ones.

I agree here. I'd say many of wild/mari pieces particularly those which are pink/red etc colour up better under a generally low Kelvin light than blue...

If intense BLUE LIGHT was good enough, there wouldn't be so many LED users having issues with orange/yellow/red SPS. LED users can supply plenty of intense blue light, but still have issues.

For 10bucks, I'd say go for it.

 

[jda]

Most red and pink need a LOT of light or they turn brown, cream and green. You can do this with a "blue" halide, but they put out TONS of spectrum in the whole range - this is where a blue looking bulb like 20K radium or 14K phoneix looks blue, but still has tons of yellow, green and red. I would not assume that your pair of radion 15s are more light than a pair of T5s.

I think that you need more light.

 

[Kaman8]

Most red and pink need a LOT of light or they turn brown, cream and green. You can do this with a "blue" halide, but they put out TONS of spectrum in the whole range - this is where a blue looking bulb like 20K radium or 14K phoneix looks blue, but still has tons of yellow, green and red. I would not assume that your pair of radion 15s are more light than a pair of T5s.

I think that you need more light.

I think you have under estimate the ecotech radions pro. My light are set to 100% brightness.

 

[jda]

I have used them. I was just trying to help. When you get around to lights, hollar if you want and I can walk you through the reasoning.

If you are looking for other areas, then salts with high metal content can really jack with reds/pinks. Some people have had success with iodine and potassium helping with colors, but many have had good colors without dosing either.

 

[Kaman8]

I have used them. I was just trying to help. When you get around to lights, hollar if you want and I can walk you through the reasoning.

If you are looking for other areas, then salts with high metal content can really jack with reds/pinks. Some people have had success with iodine and potassium helping with colors, but many have had good colors without dosing either.

I don't dose potassium , because my salt have high potassium. 450 with salifert test.

 

[Kaman8]

With lights off and used flash to make pic

 

[trueblackpercula]

Why do you say they like very intense blue lighting to color up? I have found reds and pinks easier to keep under more of a 10k bulb in my experience. Especially the Mariculture and wild ones.

I have been getting some really nice color from mine under mostly violet and blues. Under whites they look pale so I changed up the lighting and now they look 100 times better.

Michael

 

[Piper27]

I ran mostly blue leds for a while. My experience was that a number of my corals turned a pink or a purple hue. But this was not the true color of the corals in most cases. Even a few used to be blue. I acclimated them very well and was no here near happy with any colors really. I think I needed more white bulbs.
I finally gave up and added a few white t5s which changed things dramatically. Once I added them I could really see how bad the acros looked. It was like a fake color they had, and with the new bulbs you could see the acros looked stressed, discolored, and the skin was thin instead of fluffy and healthy. I am sure with time and the right spectrum it could have worked but I eventually went to 6 t5s with a led strip of 36 blue 3w LEDs on my 40 breeder.

 

[sahin]

I ran mostly blue leds for a while. My experience was that a number of my corals turned a pink or a purple hue. But this was not the true color of the corals in most cases. Even a few used to be blue. I acclimated them very well and was no here near happy with any colors really. I think I needed more white bulbs.
I finally gave up and added a few white t5s which changed things dramatically. Once I added them I could really see how bad the acros looked. It was like a fake color they had, and with the new bulbs you could see the acros looked stressed, discolored, and the skin was thin instead of fluffy and healthy. I am sure with time and the right spectrum it could have worked but I eventually went to 6 t5s with a led strip of 36 blue 3w LEDs on my 40 breeder.

Apologies to OP as but this is kind of off topic, but this is exactly my experiance as well.

Royal Blue/Blue LED's can enhance colours, and what Michael explains, is exactly what I avoid...If my SPS do not look nicely coloured under mainly white light then I consider myself having failed to colour up that coral.

Eg, when I gave a few of my nicest frags to one of my LFS running solely T5's (6:4 white:blue tubes) and my frags looked good under his lights, I was happy.

When I gave my frags to a buddy running sole LED's...my frags looked even better coloured; I mean immediately in his tank. My buddy runs AI Hydra 52's...the "UV"/actinic/Royal Blue and Blue were producing extra pop in the same frags. My blue tort which I took out of my tank only a few hours before, looked so much better under his AI Hydra 52's.

 

[Greg11]

I ordered a bi-color millepora from the lfs last week and I will pick it up today, but he message me that the color has changed. The pink color is fading and ask me if I still want it if he sell it to me much cheaper then before. So I thought for 10 dollar now, I will give it a try. He kept it under T5HO 4x54 watt. I have 2 xr15w pro , my lights are much stronger then his light. So I will place it lower in the tank and slowy raise it. Do you think the pink color will come back? What is the placement for bi-color millepora? Any help would be appropriate. Thanks



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[Greg11]

They love a lots of flow and strong light but be careful with radions( I have 2 pros with t5)
End up on top but give them 3-4 weeks to adjust make sure your potassium level is in place

 

[Kaman8]

They love a lots of flow and strong light but be careful with radions( I have 2 pros with t5)
End up on top but give them 3-4 weeks to adjust make sure your potassium level is in place

my potassium is always 450.

 

[Kaman8]

1 day in my tank now

 

[Piper27]

Nice piece, what salt do you use that keeps your potassium up that high? I have trouble keeping mine above 375. I go through a bottle of brightwells potassium supplement way to fast...