Forest fire digi losing green

[GHOSTLY]

So I've had a forest fire for about 3 weeks and its browned out around the tips from a light green to pale colour. Is it just acclimating to my tank or is there some thing wrong? I can't list parameters but people telling me how to get the green back would help

 

[kittenbritches]

Do you have a pic?

 

[kittenbritches]

Also, I've never seen a green forest fire digi. /shrug

My LFS is auctioning a forest fire digi right now if you wanna get in on the action.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Also, I've never seen a green forest fire digi. /shrug

My LFS is auctioning a forest fire digi right now if you wanna get in on the action.

You can see at the bottom a tiny bit of green. At the start you can only see a tiny bit of green its lost a lot of green

 

[Chrisv.]

Wait, why can't you list the parameters? That's like asking for directions and saying that you don't know where you will be departing from.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Wait, why can't you list the parameters? That's like asking for directions and saying that you don't know where you will be departing from.

Now I just tested that what I meant.
Nitrate 2
Mag 1400ish
Calcium 467
Alk 10
Lighting is a radion XR30 pro and its about half way up in the evo tank
Medium high flow

 

[Chrisv.]

Now I just tested that what I meant.
Nitrate 2
Mag 1400ish
Calcium 467
Alk 10
Lighting is a radion XR30 pro and its about half way up in the evo tank
Medium high flow

Honestly it's probably just getting settled in. I've had these take a few months to recover. You probably won't see full coloration until you're establish enough to get a lot of growth.

It's a very pretty coral! Hang in there. It will color up. Try to keep alkalinity as stable as possible.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Honestly it's probably just getting settled in. I've had these take a few months to recover. You probably won't see full coloration until you're establish enough to get a lot of growth.

It's a very pretty coral! Hang in there. It will color up. Try to keep alkalinity as stable as possible.

When you say recover do you mean from green to pale and back to green? Also how long did it take

 

[Chrisv.]

I've grown this strain twice. Both times it was bright green when I got it, then over about two weeks it lost the green. Then over about one to two months the green came back. I really think stability is the trick. Digitata can handle very high light and flow, or live a bit dimmer. One of my friends had a FF digi at the top of his reef. It was bleached and looked like hell. 6 months later it was stunning.

 

[mdb_talon]

In my experience it can lose the green in too high of light. I am sure other scenarios could cause that as well though

 

[mdb_talon]

Also, I've never seen a green forest fire digi. /shrug

My LFS is auctioning a forest fire digi right now if you wanna get in on the action.

Ideally a forest fire digi has a green base....otherwise it is just a red digi.

 

[GHOSTLY]

It's been 2 weeks and it's lost most colour! Does thah mean perhaps in 1 to 3 months before it colours up again?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Assure the following are met as these are some comon causes:

Coral not acclimated
Too much water flow
Too much light
water temp too warm
Hi alk
Low CA
High Phosphates

What test kits are you using?

 

[Chrisv.]

It's been 2 weeks and it's lost most colour! Does thah mean perhaps in 1 to 3 months before it colours up again?

Yep!

 

[kittenbritches]

Ideally a forest fire digi has a green base....otherwise it is just a red digi.

I learn something every day.

 

[GHOSTLY]

Would phosphate also brown out

 

[Chrisv.]

Would phosphate also brown out

It could, but that's typically more of an issue with acros in my experience.

Either way it will take time for your coral to adapt and color back up.

 

[jcolliii]

My FF digitata (purchased from WWC, so pretty sure it's a FF) has bright red-orange polyps on a BLUE base with green growing tips. If you don't see green, I would say it's because it's not actively growing. I blast mine with both light and flow. It didn't have as much green after I added it as it was getting used to my tank, so maybe that is it? I think maybe your NO3 is a bit on the low side perhaps - my corals don't show their best colors unless NO3 is in the 5-10ppm range and PO4 is in the area of 0.02-0.04.

 

[GHOSTLY]

My FF digitata (purchased from WWC, so pretty sure it's a FF) has bright red-orange polyps on a BLUE base with green growing tips. If you don't see green, I would say it's because it's not actively growing. I blast mine with both light and flow. It didn't have as much green after I added it as it was getting used to my tank, so maybe that is it? I think maybe your NO3 is a bit on the low side perhaps - my corals don't show their best colors unless NO3 is in the 5-10ppm range and PO4 is in the area of 0.02-0.04.

In my other thread the people say blue base is bubblegum digi and green is forest fire

 

[Chrisv.]

In my other thread the people say blue base is bubblegum digi and green is forest fire

Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if these were the same coral that look slightly different from system to system. I've had two ff and one bubblegum and in my tank they looked the same. Who knows. Maybe mine were mislabeled.