Maricultured Stag question

[Nanighan]

Hi sps lovers got a quick question. I saw a maricultured stag mini colony at my LFS for what I feel is a fair price, and a good size and beautiful shape! My issue is that it is currently brown with whitish blue tips.
It looks very healthy with polyps out and no signs of recession. I would like to take a chance and hopefully this would color up to something other than brown.
Do most maricultured stags come in as other colors and possibly brown out during shipping? I really hoping for any shade of blue, green or purple.
I once had a blue tip stag which was basically brown with blue growth tips. I sold that because it was getting large and was just not something I want in my tank.
My experience with maricultured sps is they do well in my tank and eventually color up.

 

[Allmost]

given the right water quality and conditions, the acros will color up to its original color.

but its original color can be anything, including brown. so its a chance you have to take

the brown acro that was growing in your tank, did other acros color up during that time ? if not, you just have too much nutritions and acros arent coloring up.
check the water parameter as well

 

[Nanighan]

Hey thanks for the response. The blue tip stag I had looked like the ones on this thread
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=661985

I guess what Im getting at is what are the chances this will be be any other color other than brown. 50%, 65% or higher?
Doesnt make sense that anyone would mariculture a brown stag, but they are found in the hobby and I owned one

 

[danil]

Go for it if price is right. I doubt they grow brown corals on their farm . Just double check for any pests.