Chalice lost green color?

[hrae]

Hi there,

I've had this avatar chalice for a couple of weeks now. I'm about to do a water change and test so I can state my parameters. I have seen it eating frozen krill I've left in its bowl.

It's about 3-4 inches under a fluval marine & reef light over a fluval evo nano with full blues and cyans, half red and violet, only 3 percent white light for a couple hours a day. First photo is when I first got it, last two are from today. It does seem like the light blue area has grown but the green is non-existent now. I don't see the flesh receding or looking strange otherwise.

Thoughts?

 

[dedragon]

Might be too high light for the chalice, they tend to like very low light levels. What are the rest of the parameters in the tank though; salinity, temp, calcium, alkalinity, phosphate, nitrate, etc

 

[hrae]

Might be too high light for the chalice, they tend to like very low light levels. What are the rest of the parameters in the tank though; salinity, temp, calcium, alkalinity, phosphate, nitrate, etc

Hi there! I decided to try light first and do a water change once a week -- and it seems to be working to have the lights be a bit lower! I didn't test params because I figured I'd start with light and trying to keep everything else stable and then mess with additives if I needed to -- but since no other corals were looking bad, I just decided to go with less light. Posting photos of it today, you can see the green coming back toward the bottom on the outside. In person it's a bit more visible, but I'll take that I can see it in the photo (however small) for now.

 

[hrae]

I guess I'll add that I changed my lights to absolutely no white at all, and dimmed blue/purple/red/teal to about 50 percent for less time per day. The other corals don't seem to mind, even the green birds nest i have