Cyan based cyphastrea has brown base.

[mushrommy]

I got a free be cyphastrea but it doesn't look like the sellers mother colony. What's happening. I read it could be getting to little light and the parts that look most healthy were the polyps receiving most light. So I moved it to brighter lighting. Opinions?

 

[mushrommy]

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[mushrommy]

Bump

 

[Timfish]

If you've matched the lighting and environmental conditions the mother colony was grown in then give it time to make the appropriate fluorescing and chromo proteins.

 

[mushrommy]

If you've matched the lighting and environmental conditions the mother colony was grown in then give it time to make the appropriate fluorescing and chromo proteins.

Ok, hopefully when I come back home it has done better.

 

[Timfish]

Hmmm, sorry, I was thinking weeks when I said give it time, not hours.

 

[Cell]

Looks like OP's pics are too white or too blue to have a proper comparison to the first pic, which I assume is the seller's.

 

[mushrommy]

Hmmm, sorry, I was thinking weeks when I said give it time, not hours.

What I mean is that I hope I can see better polyp extension.

 

[mushrommy]

Looks like OP's pics are too white or too blue to have a proper comparison to the first pic, which I assume is the seller's.

Yeah, that may be a good reason

 

[Tcook]

Did you talk to seller to get info on his lighting? Then you can adjust for that variable. Then as Tim said give it a few weeks. I have the same coral and it does take a few weeks to settle.

 

[vetteguy53081]

I got a free be cyphastrea but it doesn't look like the sellers mother colony. What's happening. I read it could be getting to little light and the parts that look most healthy were the polyps receiving most light. So I moved it to brighter lighting. Opinions?

Ive had two like this that did not come back not to say it cannot happen but first thing I would suggest is to get this off the sand which may irritate it. Assure phos and nitrate are not elevated and its receiving moderate water flow and also assure alk is not high and/or calcium is not low

 

[snorklr]

i'm interested too...had a piece of meteor shower (blue base, pink polyps) that did fine and spread for a year then was slowly losing color and eventually the base turned brown...i've tried it in different locations , it still has some pink polyps so hasnt actually died so i've left it in the tank...everything else is doing fine and growing (hammers, duncan, candy cane , montis, zoas even a piece of bizarro cyphastrea...so i'm clueless