Coral losing its color.

[jonathan9573]

I bought this coral a few months ago (forgot what it was called) and it was more of a darker green with little orangish stripes around the edges. Well it seems to be doing fine as far as opening up and eating but it starting to become one shade of almost a fluorescent green and has lost its stripes around the edges.

 

[DaveNJ]

Photo?

 

[jonathan9573]

Sorry thought I uploaded it.

 

[Rudyg308]

It’s a trachyphyllia coral, needs low light. If it’s bleaching move it to lower light and feed 1-2 a week

 

[jonathan9573]

Thank you. I will move to a more shaded area.

 

[Rudyg308]

It will take up to 2 months for the color to come back, depending on what irritates it, mine is nearly under no light and the colors came back slowly. Try not to move it often, find a spot and leave it

 

[Zack K]

Could we get some water parameters? Sounds like it could be a nutrient Deficiency. How often if at all do you feed it? If so what? What kind of lights is it under?

 

[jonathan9573]

Alk run about 9
Calcium 460
Mag 1380

I try to feed quite a bit. Two cubes of brine shrimp a day. Either reef chili, reef roofs, rotifiers, cyclopeez or a combination of them everyday. Spot feed and broadcast feed.

I run a diy led on my tank. Have had it since 2012 when I switched from metal halides.

Here is a pic I took a few weeks ago.

 

[Mikedawg]

looks healthy; maybe LFS lights are different than yours and that is part of the explanation for color differences - I have several trachys that colored up somewhat differently in my tanks (Hydra lights) vs. LFS's black boxes.

 

[jonathan9573]

Well it has looked just how it looked when it was at the LFS for about a month or so and just recently noticed the the color was changing.

 

[Mikedawg]

Here's what I was thinking: https://www.petcoach.co/article/colors-of-corals-light-chlorophyll-and-other-pigments/ but apparently that is not the case here. Good that it looks healthy - puffed up, no tissue recession, eating