Is this just temporary?

[marcusbacus]

This Stylophora pink is now almost entirely white, but you can see very faint little pink dots. The polyps seem to be all there, and when they are retracted you can see more evident pink dots on the coral body. It was brownish when it arrived (about a month ago), became slightly pink (but not that much) and now it's like that, always at the same place except for a couple days a little lower (lights are default of a RSM 250). Is it just temporary or can it get worse? I have another Stylophora rugosa pink that is doing fine (still not that pink yet but it's still small), and all the other SPS I have (a few, though) are ok. There seems to be also some new bits at the front, near the base, a very tiny bump. An image...

 

[MHG]

I would say if the cause was corrected and you are seeing growth then it is temporary..some of my corals took 7 months to color back after browning...

 

[marcusbacus]

My parameters have been quite constant so far despite being a relatively new tank (2 1/2 months) and therefore maybe not perfect for SPS yet, but I really don't know what might have caused it as it came from the same seller that sold me some other frags that are ok. As I can still see some pink here and there and the small growth I think it's not really a problem, if it was dead/dying I wouldn't see the polyps either.

 

[Finland]

It has polyp extension, so I would think it should recover. Stylo's are pretty hardy corals IME, so give it stable water and it should recover. Maybe move it down a bit in the tank, untill it recovers.

 

[marcusbacus]

Sorry this is not a Stylophora but a Pocillopora (or so they said it was at the store... a Pocillopora damicornis?). I get confused with all these names mostly because I also have a Stylophora, green, which incidentally started to become greener about the same time as the Pocillopora started to get whiter.