Marie-cultured coral? What to do now...

[Charley Diesing]

I recently added a Acropora Vailda mariecultured SPS from LiveAquaria I put it on my frag rack and over the past 8 days have slowly raised it towards the top of my tank, starting at the bottom... It has since then lost a ton of color and started bleaching/browning out.

Should I put it on the sand-bed? Or leave it 3/4ths of the way up on my tank?

Thanks,

Charley

 

[CHSUB]

my friends works with an importer of several farms in bali...he told me these corals are 5-8 feet under clear water and they get blasted with sunlight.
to much light is impossible, i might just leave it along. DD will give you credit if it dies.

 

[biggles]

As CHSUB said, wild and maricultured corals are used to a whole lot of light in general so any browning i would look to your water and/or lack of light rather than too much. I normally refer to bleaching as a paling which could indicate too much light too quickly and browning as darkening and loss of pigments. I try not to allow any browning by giving my wild SPS a lot of light very quickly within a day or two of purchase. Good luck with it mate.

 

[nysbadmk8]

Mari coral are known for their loss of color.

Give it time and it will come back around.

 

[dowtish]

Some lose their color and it never quite returns. That has been my experience. Every once in a while, you will get one that loses color, and then it comes back better than before, but that is not often enough unfortunately.

 

[karsseboom]

Mariculture corals and hard to maintain there colors. When they brown out it can take forever to color back up again. Sometimes you can keep the colors they come in with. I look at it like this. If I I'm buying maricultured colonies and they are holding there color I know my tank is doing well.

 

[RealReef7]

bump

 

[RealReef7]

bump

 

[RealReef7]

bump

 

[scrapz]

Hopefully you dipped it before placing in your tank. Maricultured are notorious for carrying bugs. If you did, just leave it alone and let it adjust on the sandbed. As long as it doesn't die, it'll eventually adjust to your tank parameters and slowly begin to color up.

I know of a store here in socal that blasts all their wild/mari cultured with 1000w of light. His coral colors are amazing..

 

[gypsy1203]

Try posting a picture of it so we can see it. Hopefully it starts to get it's color back once it settles in

 

[nemodan]

Browning to my knowledge is due to an increase in Zooxanthellas. The increase happens because of excess nutrients in the tank.

What are your parameters, mainly: Alk, Ca, Mg, Phosphate and Nitrates.

Cheers
Daniel

 

[Myka]

As CHSUB said, wild and maricultured corals are used to a whole lot of light in general so any browning i would look to your water and/or lack of light rather than too much. I normally refer to bleaching as a paling which could indicate too much light too quickly and browning as darkening and loss of pigments. I try not to allow any browning by giving my wild SPS a lot of light very quickly within a day or two of purchase. Good luck with it mate.

I agree. I also give my maricultured and wild pieces a lot of light very quickly.

Is the coral browning or bleaching? There is a very definite difference, and different treatments.

Here is a browned maricultured SPS:

Here is a bleached maricultured SPS: