Monti troubles

[Scma]

I bought a monti frag about 4 or 5 months ago which had three different plating monti colors on it. I had it in the same spot since, until a couple weeks ago when i moved it about 1 inch below the surface of my water. I thought it would like the better light. I have a 29G with 2x 65watt power compacts. It was doing great where it was previously. I noticed a few days ago that the orange one was bleaching. The green and purple are fine.

I'm pretty sure light intensity is not to blame... but I have moved it back where it was anyways. I checked for nudis found none. It was next to a red planet. If the red planet fell and touched the monti, could that cause the bleaching? It might have tissue loss, but honestly i'm not sure it's difficult to tell.

Thanks

 

[mike_cmu04]

It is probably from moving it up causing to bleach leave it where it was originially and it should come back.

 

[MCCOOL]

How high up was it before you moved it? I agree with mike, even though your lighting isn't that strong, if you moved it from the bottom to the top without acclimating it, it could cause some bleaching.

Although a red planet falling on it could be the cause also.

 

[Scma]

it was pretty much in the middle of the tank before i moved it up. I think find it odd how only one of them is bleaching which makes me think the red planet might have gotten it.

 

[map95003]

By 'bleaching' do you mean the entire thing changed color or just white spots? Does your light fixture have a protective shield? If not, and you're talking about white spots, it could possibly be some salt deposits (from evaporated water) fell on it while you were moving it...that would give you white spots...it does come back. If the entire thing turned pale/white, it's probably the change in depth/light.

 

[Scma]

Half of it is bleached. It's not spotty... One entire half is orange, one entire half is white.

 

[Scma]

It's getting even worse now. It looks like the color is peeling off from the coral, like paint. I dipped the coral in coral vite.