ORA Pearlberry Problems

[greg683x]

I recieved a Pearlberry frag about 3 weeks ago, it was a bit on the brown side, but did have a bit of a green/blueish hue to it in low light, with dark polyps when I recieved it, which isnt a surprise after shipping.

Since then Ive been slowly moving it up towards the top of my tank. A few days ago I moved it to its new spot towards the top of my tank on a rock thats sitting about 8" below the water line. Today Ive started to notice that the tips of the frag are becoming a greyish white color and some of the brown parts are fading in certain areas. I'm becoming worried that the tips of the frag are starting to bleach but if I look at the coral from the top down I can see on these greyish areas neon green spots that are the polyps which are retracted right now.

SO I dont really know what to do, I know that pearlberrys can have greyish white branches with neon green polyps, so if the frag is coloring up I obviously want to leave it alone. Then again, if my coral is starting to bleach at the tips, I definitely want to move it down lower.

So I'm at a bit of a loss, right now Im leaning towards just leaving it alone. Are there any tell tale signs that the coral is bleaching, for instance, would the polyps still have color? Even if theyre retracted?

 

[greg683x]

Here are some pics, sorry I know the quality isn't great. The white is more pronounced than it looks in the pictures, but you can also see what I mean from the top down shots, those grey white areas almost look like the healthiest part of the coral

 

[xanthurum]

Leave it alone. The more you change things the worse it will be. Constantly changing things is not good for SPS.

 

[DM and the Boys]

It's hard to tell with the second pic but unless it's exposed skeleton I'd leave it be. WHat's your lighting? Levels?