Did your brown SPS bounce back?

[Greybeard]

A $5 brown acro frag I purchased... Give it time.

 

[swk]

Yes! Multiple times haha!

 

[mrtian97]

I think that's part of the fun in keeping Acro, try to grow and color the new frag, at least for me it's gratifying

 

[2Wheelsonly]

A $5 brown acro frag I purchased... Give it time.

Plot twist: Original frag was purchased 1963 right after the Kennedy assassination and just now is coming around...

I kid I kid

On a serious note, I have had frags that have lost color and gone pale but bounce back in a week when I correct the problems but brown frags have sometimes taken 1-2 years to regain color. I inherited some corals when I first started keeping SPS from a guy who traded them in for a tank I was selling. They were ***** brown and had NO color, I stuck them on the rock work facing my back wall and figured i'd leave them be and see what happens. A year later I ended up moving them to the front of my tank and some ended up being the nicest pieces I had. It just took a very very very long time.

 

[Sabellafella]

Keep in mind! Theres a whole slew of species that, you can litterally move them an inch, and theyll brown out. Like a strawberry shortcake/microlados or the vivid rainbow that i can accidently overfeed for a week and itll brown out- for example. For my experience, took a couple months to get their color and full pe back.

 

[ReeferMadness80G]

 

[Abhishek]

I have a Hawkins Echinata that came in ok color but browned out in my tank within 3 weeks .Now it's over a month and still brown .
Performed ICP testing -no alarms except for AL due to marinepure may be , measured PAR and around 250 on the Echinata .. ALK -8 ,Phosphates- 0.06 and nitrates - 10 .

Everything looking great except for Echinata .

Sometimes just can't find a reason ..

Regards,
Abhishek

 

[smh254]

I like buying brown/bleached coral. You get them cheep and love seeing what comes of them.$5

Six months later.

 

[thatsaltydogchris]

Both of these were brown

 

[alten78]

Bought this as a brown frag, grew but never colored up, then I had a horrible tank move and almost lost it back in October.

Excuse the poor pictures...



How it is today, hard to see but the body is turning a greenish turquoise and the tips are blue. Hoping it continues to color up.