I bought a 5" green slimer colony a few months back. It lost the deep green after a week or so in my tank and remains a goldish color with green polyps. Nutrient levels are undetectable. Flow is very good. It gets strong lighting from a 250w reeflux 10k and 190w actinic. Thoughts?
Why is my yongei yellow?
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marine_freak
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The beauty of corals is each is unique and will respond differently in varied lighting setups.... unless you get the frag from the same mother colony at the same depth with the same light strength and spectrum... the colors will shift. Sounds like to me his just adapted to his specific conditions in the tank. But my only concern would be nutrient level not high enough to get true color. If too low you may get faded out yellow versus vibrant sunflower yellow.
kmagyar
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I would suspect that your nutrients being very low has caused the yongie to turn yellow. I have a yongie that is being blasted pretty well and it is electric green. The same thing goes for this red acro in this pic. It is much more pale in very low nutrient water. I am currntly on a low nutrient kick (for other reasons) so it will be interesting to see what happens to coloration.
Keith
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that red one a Cyphastrea decadia?
Yes, my nutrients are shamefully high---I gave up on the low nutrient part, since my find on live rock involved not only live rock but 'occupied' rock full of pods, worms, stomatellas, strombus snails, hitchhiker mushrooms, sponges, and Lord knows what else, all of which survived the cycle. I figured since I had a gift, I might as well follow through with my sps plans but keep whatever I want. So far it's 1/4 sps, 1/2 lps, and the rest is fish, mushrooms and inverts, so there's always something floating around that's edible for something. On the other hand, since I've been feeding cyclopeeze, the browned tenuis and aculeus I've been nursing along have plumped up and blued, one extremely, and the purple valida is looking quite happy. I don't know whether it can actually utilize the cyclopeeze or whether it's getting it recycled from the bristleworms, but they're coming along all of a sudden quite nicely. My tank is only 4-5 months old, so it may be too that they're finally settling in.
Glad to know that, and thanks for the help. I love the sps's, but am still learning how to keep them on their rocks (lately I'm succeeding at that!) and where to put them in the first place. The yongei is the toughest thing I own...since it was my first, it needed to be. But now I'm getting some hard-luck things I bought inexpensively to come back to their color, and that's a real delight.
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