fishmanstan
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I recently traded my center rock for a bigger one, so it was moved, so I'm going to wait and see what it does.
ORA red planet -green?
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Nano sapiens
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Your experience is not the first I've read about which is completely opposite to what many others have experienced. With this coral, I think there is a lot more going on than just lighting (although it is undoubtedly a major factor in coloration) such as flow, alkalinity, temp, etc.
Just for kicks, I now have (4) frags of RP in different locations in my Nano (low to med-high light/varying spectrums/various flow rates).
Henry Colf
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Red Planet will turn more RED with MORE light and have MORE GREEN with LESS light...
The polyps shuold be reddish/pink and no other color..
I have 2 colonies in my tank at different heights and they are different in color.
This is at the top of my overflow in my 90 gallon. Some areas get direct light and some get direct light..Notice the color change in the coral.....
Here's the other colony 8 inches off the bottom of my tank....
The polyps shuold be reddish/pink and no other color..
I have 2 colonies in my tank at different heights and they are different in color.
This is at the top of my overflow in my 90 gallon. Some areas get direct light and some get direct light..Notice the color change in the coral.....
Here's the other colony 8 inches off the bottom of my tank....
fishmanstan
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^That's ironic you posted those pics...I was just looking st your tank thread!
Henry Colf
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lol... I think that most people that are running leds are looking for a quick color change, when it takes what it takes for the coral to change to what it should look like. It took like four months for my corals to adapt to the change. Some still don't look as good as they did when I ran MH and T-5's but I will take the trade off as I see it. My choice. My Red Planet was poopie brown when I first got it and I was like WHAT!!! Takes time. Everything in this hobby happens at it's own pace and we have to be proactive and not reactive...This is what I have learned over the time i've been in this hobby. Just give the coral what it needs, stability,good flow and the proper lighting and it should turn into what it's supossed to be. Just my 2 cents...
Henry Colf
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Just to clarify, the coral on the overflow gets indirect light where as the other coral gets direct light...
Nano sapiens
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Well said and patience is a virtue. The only SPS coral that has given me challenges so far is the Red Planet. For months under fairly high light, med-high flow (185 PAR LEDs, 2.5 to 1 blue/white) I've managed to bleach it. Dropping to the sand bed at 95 PAR and lower flow it turned and has stayed green and brown for months. I have a few mini-frags in the middle ranges, so I'm hoping that in a few months they'll produce at least a little red coloration.
Yeah the red planet usually takes a while before growth takes off. Mine was brown and green for almost 5 months while it encrusted. Now that it has an established base, it is turning a nice emerald green and vivid red at the tips. It took half a year before it started looking "right"
fishmanstan
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Yeah. I'll let him go I guess.
jroovers
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I posted this in another RP thread here in the SPS forum, but my experience is the green will come out with lower light levels. Mine is about 2/3's of the way down in my 120 which is under 4 x 54w T5s and 2 x 24 strips of Cree RBs. The base is shaded and is very green, the rest of the coral is redish/pink.
jdraider75
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I bought a red planet from my lfs and it had bright green skin and really brown polops. I questioned that it was really a rp but when it encrusted good it turned pinkish then finally red but base still has some green but base is shaded. I have it really high up in tank under t5 and bout 10 inches from a vortec mp40 it just took time to color up. probably bout 3 months just takes time to encrust.
fishmanstan
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It's fully encrusted on frag plug..
low riderr
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henry,the rp that i have came from you.i did give it some time to color up,the only thing that worked for me was to shade it
deepseadan
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My red planet was green with brown polyps when I got it from my brother in law under his t5's and higher nutrient tank. In my under mh the base turned very light fluorescent green with purple redish tips. The polyps turned from brown to purple white. I notice the more I move it up in the tank, the green goes towards white and purple red gets deeper. It's one of my favorite corals because I can customize its look to how I want it to be. It's also one of my fastest growing and encrusting corals as well. I can literally see daily growth. Love it.
Henry Colf
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Mine did the exact same thing when I fisrt switched to leds. It turned all green and took what i thought was 4 months but it could have been longer maybe 6 I can't remember to color back to red. I should start dating my pictures to give an accurate account of time.
