JF Fox Flame Question

[New York Reef]

Hey so I picked up this JF fox flame a few months ago I put it right at the top in heavy flow. It didn't grow at all and started to lose color, then I moved it mid level and it started to loose most of the color but is now encrusting like crazy but still has hardly no color. Anyone have this problem its such a nice piece it should be really nice dark red but its pretty much white with small barely yellow tips and in the encrusting part there is small yellow dots. Any help would be great thanks!

 

[New York Reef]

Will post up a picture later

 

[tsm corals]

I purchased a frag from Jason 18 months ago. He told me it should be placed near the bottom of the tank
in low light. It did nothing for a year. Now it's encrusted with many yellow tips. Hope this helps.

 

[Anthony Wood]

I also have a JF Fox Flame and just recently got it so it hasnt started doing much yet. Mine is in the lower 1/4 of the tank. But if yours is encrusting like crazy in the spot its in that means its happy. If it were me I would just leave it there, its in the process of acclimating to the conditions of that spot you have it in the color and even polyp extension (if there isnt much) will come eventually given time. How much time itll take is anybody's guess, but like I said it sounds happy due to the fact its encrusting so I wouldnt worry too much. The way I see it if you keep moving it, its never going to be able to acclimate to its surrounding which would mean the color will never come back until its left in one spot.

 

[BryanS4]

I purchased a frag from Jason 18 months ago. He told me it should be placed near the bottom of the tank
in low light. It did nothing for a year. Now it's encrusted with many yellow tips. Hope this helps.

Yep, I have heard the same. I just got a frag a few weeks back and it held its color really well on the sand bed and I just placed it on a low rock last night in about 250 par.

 

[ctsps]

I have mine about 2 feet away from reefbreeders photons ,fixtures are 11in off the water and my rock is a foot under the water,high flow,good luck

 

[New York Reef]

Wow thanks everyone! Appreciate the advice!

 

[New York Reef]

Bump

 

[Sabellafella]

Bump

If its starting to get a white hue to it between coralites then the colony was grown in a lower lit area of the persons tank. Ff is acually really hardy but doesnt tolerate high high light well. I got mine in around 300 par seems to do the trick

 

[Tegridy Reef]

Just my 2 cent but did u just throw at the top of the tank or did u acclimate it to your lighting

 

[dodgerblew]

Good info. Moving mine to lower light. Just got it last week

 

[hybridazn]

It's a low/med light low/med flow coral. Before I lost mine it grew like a weed.

Here is a pic of mine right as it started to take off vertically. It will encrusted quite a bit before shooting off massive branches

 

[slojmn]

This is so interesting. I have the JF Foxflame and it is sitting way up high in high flow with a 250w MH bulb baking it. It sits 11" under the bulb in the hot spot. I also run T5/LED in the light fixture so it's getting some light for sure. It's a deep red with gorgeous yellow tips. Hehehehehe, I had no idea it prefers low light. Despite this thread and the definite consensus of the posts I'm sticking with what I have going .

 

[New York Reef]

Yes i just put it at the top i didnt acclimate it, probably should have tho

 

[Salty1962]

Always acclimate to your lighting. Never killed a frag from a few weeks of low light.

 

[Tegridy Reef]

Yeah I use to not acclimate corals to lighting lost some and now I'm a believer to acclimating

 

[New York Reef]

Yea from now on starting from the bottom then moving up

 

[larangcon]

Mine was in low light then moved it up high slowly under 250MH, I used to have vigrant red with yellow tip. The Fox Flame browned out, so I lowered it at mid area, since everyone has theirs low I will move it today and see if I can get the bright yellow back, the picture shows that lower lighting is much better.

 

[Akida17th]

Well we all know different lighting matters, being high up in a MH or T5 is much different then being high up under LED's. I've had acros bleach out on the sandbed under radions but color up and grow great under MH/T5 combo.

 

[slojmn]

Well we all know different lighting matters, being high up in a MH or T5 is much different then being high up under LED's. I've had acros bleach out on the sandbed under radions but color up and grow great under MH/T5 combo.

Yep, I concur. The few SPS I have in my nano under an LED fixture are all tanned out, clearly bleaching to some extent, not white but very little color. The LED's seem to be frying them. I slowly ramped them up and have raised the fixture a few times, now I am backing down, lol. Lighting and nutrients really play a large role in color. I also think size of the colony as well.