Pink Birdsnest?

[boobookitty]

Same here. I don't know if the whitish areas inside are dead or just bleached due to lack of light. Looks like they still have flesh.

Arthur

 

[fishdoc11]

Mine turn white as they go inward and then die. The live portion on top seems to stay the same depth but the dead part in the middle gets larger at seemingly the same rate as the outside grows.
Chris

 

[Travis]

Mine turn white as they go inward and then die. The live portion on top seems to stay the same depth but the dead part in the middle gets larger at seemingly the same rate as the outside grows.
Chris

Yup, that is EXACTLY the same thing mine does. Must just be typical for the species. Thanks for the feedback guys.

 

[calvinci]

Growth in a month

 

[reefkeeper59]

My hydrometer was bad and my salinity was 1.021. The pocillapora and the pink bird nest appeared to have died on the top side where ever lite was shining on them. Even down in the middle next to the base. Thought they wher goners. I brought salinty to 1.026 and within a week they looked like nothing has happened. I determined that they are very sensative to salinity.

 

[jshorter]

Mine did the same thing. Still growing very well, and the polyps are out and look great, but there are some areas in the very center have died out. Still looks great though!

Jason

 

[iCam]

 

[Rebel]

Travis et al.:
Could the "die off" in the center of the colony have something to do with captivity? I only have very, very (did I say very?) small frags of BN right now, but years ago I had a 7-8" colony and it had just begun to do the same.

I wonder if it has something to do with flow patterns in a little box compared to the natural reef. What do they look like in the wild? Are we somehow changing or inhibiting their proper growth patterns to cause this inner bleaching/die-off?

 

[Deepsea2005]

This is my 1 and 1/2 years Bird Net under 20k radum bulb.

 

[Travis]

Rebel, hard to say. I don't think it has that much to do with flow. I can see particulate matter freely flow through my birdsnest colony where it has died off. I think it has more to do with light. The polyps of my guttatus extend pretty far and block light from getting to the inside of the colony. Maybe there is something in our tanks that is causing them to extend their polyps like that. Or maybe the same thing happens in the wild.

 

[invincible569]

Here's mine. I've noticed that with any pink coral (mille's, seria's, etc) has a good deep pink to them. Pink's & yellow's represent themselves better under shorter Kelvin wavelength's (shallow waters) vs blue's & greens which are better under longer wavelengths (deeper waters). If I place a pink coral under a more blue light, it will loose its intensity.

 

[danano]

Here are a 4 different types of pink birdsnest, including a frag of the yellow tip one from Scarab65.

I find they do well under medium to strong lighting and good flow all around.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

thread revival

thread revival

same coral after water flow was increased

 

[ReefWreak]

Wow, very cool change. Thanks for the pics!

 

[cayecaulker]

Hers a picture of mine. It grows amazingly fast.

 

[Eklikewhoa]

I love birdsnest!

I have a purple polyp and a pink frag of it and the purple seems to be growing in thin vs. the pink(that's not so hot pink) that is twice as thick being in the flow path.

 

[JerseyWendy]

My birds nest was a wee tiny frag when I got it, and here it is a couple of months ago.

Don't know what type it is, but I love it.

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Wendy

 

[Denadai]

Almost all the birdsnest are pink......who has a kind of orange is because don´t have enough ligth or enough water quality