Please show your Brown to Colourful SPS transformations.

[JP SPS]

I'd like to hear what the folks who have success turning around a brown coral attribute it to. Any advice for those of us struggling with a browned out acro or two???

 

[frankyrivera]

My purple monster...more like a brown monster when I first got it

One year later

 

[OneReef]

My purple monster...more like a brown monster when I first got it

One year later

Very nice

 

[NegroModelo]

 

[Big E]

frankyrivera,

That's beautiful...........any tips on how to get that kind of polyp extension out of a Purple monster?

 

[frankyrivera]

frankyrivera,

That's beautiful...........any tips on how to get that kind of polyp extension out of a Purple monster?

Not sure really but for some reason mine is up high getting lots of flow and the most polyp extension occurs when the actinics come on

 

[blackchicken]

Waau beatiful work guys, I dont have any of this transformations but I have a lot of
Invert

 

[Dillan]

I dont know about colorful, but its two months of progress.

 

[trae]

Brown corals

Brown corals

Mine did the exact same thing!!! A LFS gave me a melon sized colony for $30 bc it was brown and ugly, not its thriving blue/green

Aw man, now everyone knows my secret Lol, there are some that still write off brown corals. This thread is awesome for the pics alone!!!

 

[TRENT_G]

Red Planet

growing like a weed

 

[shih87]

 

[glaukos]

I just love those transformations!
Amazing photos!

 

[sahin]

Good to see this thread still going. Keep em coming please.

 

[Reefing21715]

hope this counts lol

 

[sahin]

Not sure why that isnt working for you...

 

[owenspackman]

well she hasn't finished coloring up, but here is my acro from brown to beautiful purple tips.

Before:
Taken under whites
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/9532572601/" title="DSC_0021 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7368/9532572601_3004d3a9ff_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0021"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/9532572383/" title="DSC_0025 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7348/9532572383_a4dd9c883f_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0025"></a>

After:
Taken under whites
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/10129097666/" title="DSC_0107 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7378/10129097666_46987fb846_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0107"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/10129155573/" title="DSC_0077 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5456/10129155573_6297191d21_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0077"></a>

Taken under blues
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/9828806226/" title="DSC_0007 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5446/9828806226_74aeea4540_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0007"></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/29441159@N03/9828758953/" title="DSC_0011 - Version 2 by owenspackman, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3733/9828758953_20a5a7b3fd_c.jpg" width="800" height="500" alt="DSC_0011 - Version 2"></a>

 

[Chicago]

here is one of my recent over a four week period. Deep water aussie.

<a href="http://s7.photobucket.com/user/jchicago/media/coralbrown1.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/jchicago/coralbrown1.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo coralbrown1.jpg"/></a>


<a href="http://s7.photobucket.com/user/jchicago/media/Coralbronwtogreen.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/jchicago/Coralbronwtogreen.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo Coralbronwtogreen.jpg"/></a>

 

[Chicago]

one more aussie deep water

one more aussie deep water

<a href="http://s7.photobucket.com/user/jchicago/media/coralbrown3aussie.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/jchicago/coralbrown3aussie.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo coralbrown3aussie.jpg"/></a>

<a href="http://s7.photobucket.com/user/jchicago/media/coralbrown3aussiegreentan.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/jchicago/coralbrown3aussiegreentan.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo coralbrown3aussiegreentan.jpg"/></a>

 

[sahin]

Nice colour change! How long did it take?

 

[Chicago]

4 weeks udner leds by the way.