Look at how this Ric FL has changed

[All Delight]

When I got it in mid Feb.

Took this pic over the weekend.

Don't know if its the lighting or what. But I had MH, then I switched to PC. Now I want to go back to MH to see if thats what it was. Its bigger now, but not as brightly colored.

 

[smp]

The answer is that it was slightly bleached before, it is healthy now. I doubt it has anything to do with either lighting scenario. They take a while to recover from bleaching in my experience.

Obviously they will look different under PC vs MH, but the original pic was a little bleached.

 

[aquarius77]

Switch back to MH! That ric did not look bleached to me at all. I would relate the color change directly to the lighting switch.

 

[All Delight]

Yah, I don't think it was bleached when I got it. The rics that I've seen that are bleached are transaparent.

The oranges seem to be as intense are before, its the yellow thats changed. If you look, the greens on the inner and outer are the same shade. Plus ric has filled up and expanded.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

It looks slightly bleached to me, but barely. The less Zooxanthallae in the coral allows a little more of its fluorescence to shine through making it a little brighter. I doubt that you'll ever reach the color it had before without jeopordizing the animal's health.

 

[smp]

You can tell how much zoox there is by looking at the mouth, that coral I'm sad to say was slightly bleached, stressed .. call it what you want. It's healthy now.

 

[chrisstie]

Another answer might be if it was smaller\younger - I have a rock with a similar color morphs and when they spread their foot out to make babies the foot is a little white like the first pic.. then once the baby grows in its fully colored like the second

absolutely beautiful rics

 

[lokelani808]

all delight, what kind of pc lighting are you using? I like it might want to copy

 

[All Delight]

its just stock lighting on my nano cube.

 

[smp]

Just FYI, no offence was intended by my comments.
It seems that a lot of people buy these "fluorescent" rics lately and pay high dollars for them. Any pictures I've seen on here of "fluorescent" rics have always been either bleached or slightly bleached. Anytime anyone suggests as much, people take offence. Not saying you did, but that's been my observation.
It is a nice ric indeed. I think under 20k halides it would appear _brighter_ but that is different than _lighter_.

 

[All Delight]

SMP - No harm.

 

[bigdaddyadam]

gotta disagree, it is not bleached...I had a light orange florida do the same type of thing when I first switched from 10k MH to 14k, the lighting simply changed the actual coloration of the coral, not just the way it looked, because under pure actinic, before the MH even comes on, it looks lighter...and it is NOT bleached

 

[smp]

Bottom line, a retailer will charge more for the one in the first picture and what you will end up with is the one in the second IF you keep the coral healthy.

I stand by my argument, coral lightening IS bleaching. A loss of zoox due to stress of some kind is bleaching.

 

[Travis L. Stevens]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9866929#post9866929 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by smp
Bottom line, a retailer will charge more for the one in the first picture and what you will end up with is the one in the second IF you keep the coral healthy.

I stand by my argument, coral lightening IS bleaching. A loss of zoox due to stress of some kind is bleaching.

I agree 100% with smp here, sorry.

 

[bitis316]

We all know the answer...Either way, It looks great...

 

[aquarius77]

I think It does look healthier in the second picture now the more i look at it and think about it. On first impression you think WOW but smp makes a very valid point it seems, it makes total sense to me.

I retract my first statement. I want my pc fixture back! LOL

 

[Questin]

I just got some yellows that were very close to your first pic. So I would also say that is not a bleached ric, just a light change it has adjusted to.

 

[wantsalotta]

It was bleached. It looked nice, if you don't know what you are looking at, but it looks very nice, and healthy<<<<<< keyword healthy, in the second pic.

 

[chrisstie]

If the shroom in my tank is still in the process of making its baby maybe I can snap a pic this weekend and show how its baby looks "bleached" though its just an extension of its foot without the new zooxanthelle

i think it depends on a case by case if something is bleached or not. You'd need to know a lot about its previous whereabouts.. There are some cases that are indeed pretty obvious but when it comes to a shroom like this..

let me get a pic when my lights are on tomorrow maybe it'll shed some light on this (no pun intended? gah)

 

[Dwarfpufferfish]

I am just gonna throw my 2 cents in here. It does look like it was a bit stressed in the first pic! And I think the second one looks nicer anyway! Great Ric!