Pics of new corals and questions.

[phillipj2]

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I just got these new corals and as you can see in the pic the scoly has great color. After 3 hours i came home and found all of the purple on the scoly turned brown. Is this normal. Placement is in the sandbed with good light. The scoly looked like it got a little bigger and was thriving under the light. What happend to the color. I haven't checked this coral with the actrinics and this is not my first scoly. My green one held excellent color. Any ideas?

 

[merek123]

possible Bleaching? What lighting was he previously kept under? what do you have him under now? maybe he should be slowly acclimated to the new light.

 

[phillipj2]

14K PHONEIX it was currently under 20k xm. I have purchased brighter corals from them in the past and nothing ever bleached. I wonder if its just the purple scolys. Does anyone have a purple scoly that experianced this.