What flavor of tort has green polyps?

My ORA tort always had green polyps; even under a 10k 250w DE HQI ushio in a RO III; What kind of light and positioning caused yours to go blue? I'd think more than light caused it since I couldnt give mine much more light than that :P
 
My ORA tort and the frag I got were sitting side by side, one has blue and one has green. And my solomon island blueberry tort has purple polyps
 
As everyone else said ORA/cali torts tend to bring in a lot of green in under lower lights.

Low light:
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High light:
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Cali (ORA) tort... over the years.. mine would always go purple with green highlights if my nutrients were too high. I have always kept mine in high light, so I dont have a low light reference.

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My Cali tort is a deep blue, almost purple, with huge green polyps. My phosphates are .03 with a hannah meter which is really low. I figure the deepness of the body color has to do with my lighting but the polyps have always been really green.
 
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