Favia Coral Colour

[Kial]

Hey

Picked up a small Favia coral today and only really noticed when i got home that some of the coral doesn't have any colour.

Is this something I should be concerned about? Possibly losing colour due to high lighting at the store maybe?

 

[steveschuerger]

Hey

Picked up a small Favia coral today and only really noticed when i got home that some of the coral doesn't have any colour.

Is this something I should be concerned about? Possibly losing colour due to high lighting at the store maybe?

There’s definitely some skeleton showing, the parts that aren’t pink. I’d definitely keep an eye on it. The most concerning is the strip of exposed area that’s shown starting in front but there’s also some on the upper left.

 

[Kial]

There’s definitely some skeleton showing, the parts that aren’t pink. I’d definitely keep an eye on it. The most concerning is the strip of exposed area that’s shown starting in front but there’s also some on the upper left.

Would you move to lower light? Maybe on the sandbed somewhere?

 

[Ordovician_Reef]

Hey

Picked up a small Favia coral today and only really noticed when i got home that some of the coral doesn't have any colour.

Is this something I should be concerned about? Possibly losing colour due to high lighting at the store maybe?

It can take days or weeks for corals to acclimate to new conditions and of course it will look different in your tank than the store's. And lighting differences can make a HUGE difference in color. As the other poster mentioned, I would be more concerned with the health of the coral and not it's color. The tissue damage is what would worry me.

As a rule, start acclimation of new corals in lower, rather than higher light. Too much light will do far more harm than too little.

 

[RRA]

War corals are pretty hardy, I would definitely think there is an issue. Them being as hardy as they are I wouldn’t look at light as much as parameter being off/swing.

 

[Kial]

When it was in the store/bag on way home, it sort of looked like a minty green colour instead of white.

my other LPS corals are doing great so I'm hoping if it was struggling in the store, that it will slowly recover in my tank.

I've moved it into a lower position in the tank, onto the sand bed for now. Will keep an eye on it.

 

[encrustingacro]

There’s definitely some skeleton showing, the parts that aren’t pink. I’d definitely keep an eye on it. The most concerning is the strip of exposed area that’s shown starting in front but there’s also some on the upper left.

The grey part isn’t skeleton; it looks more like mottled coloration that is common in war corals (Favites pentagona), like this:
Source: Whitlyn Aquatics

 

[Kial]

The grey part isn’t skeleton; it looks more like mottled coloration that is common in war corals (Favites pentagona), like this:
Source: Whitlyn Aquatics

Ahh i had a feeling this could be it. After thinking it looked like a minty green colour in the bag!