Superman retracting its polyps

[plancton]

Hi, I have a 2" superman, it came with a really good blue red coloration, I got a 175gal with t5s with icecap ballasts and individual reflectors. after 2 weeks I placed the superman on top and in a few days the polyps started to bleach a bit, becoming more orange fluorescent like and then orange pale.

So I decided to move it about 3.5" down, and it started to recover its colors a bit, but then my Icecap ballast failed, and it took 5 days to replace it, meanwhile I only had the actinics on.

So then I placed a new Icecap ballast, and continued with the same photoperiod but the superman is now retracting its polyps, so I decided to put it on the bottom just to see what happens.

But I don´t know what´s going on, I want it back to its original look, but it is seriously the most delicate coral I have.

I also have a rainbow monti and a sunset monti and they are perfectly fine with colorful polyps and very open.

 

[luther1200]

I am no monti expert, but maybe give it a dip and see if any critters fall off. Hopefully this is not what is wrong, but it couldn't hurt to rule it out. Or just look at it real close with a magnifying glass.

 

[plancton]

I´ve started at it a lot and I haven´t seen any strange critters, I think it has to do with placing the ballast again for the whte, but I mean such a delicate thing. How do I start over again with the acclimation?

 

[Stanley-Reefer]

I bought a large colony of superman and paid alot for it. It was about 7" long and 5" wide. I tried to shoehorn it in a place that only got half the water flow and light it needed.

Half the colony is still there, but it is bright orange now--go figure. It was red and blue when I bought it!