Need some advice on a sps I just recently recieved

[Dilan Patel]

Hello, I bought from a companies livesale a week or so ago on here and got a TCK Balrog acro. I got my packages and most things looked great except for this coral. the other two sps came in brown but are showing PE. I expect browned out corals as I have ordered online from different companies numerous times. But this came in pale and no PE and I have yet to see PE on this coral at night or during the day. I have it on a frag rack low on my tank hoping to recover. I reached out to the company 2hrs after arrival to document my concerns but I havent heard from them. i received the corals Tuesday. Any advice on this specific coral and what I should do? Its kind of hard for me to tell if it has gotten any darker? Still no PE. I know some people will want to know chemistry so here you go :

Nitrate 5ppm
PO4: .12 (I keep mine at this amount to get the color/ growth I have)
Alk: 9.2
Calc:420
Mag:1360
Salinity: 1.025

Flow is provided by 2 gyre xf250's on 70% pulse mode
Lighting is done by 6 sbreeflights at 100% both channels and 2 t-5 bulbs. (the lights have been turned down so I can acclimate the corals to their new locations except for the balrog). My pics were taken under just t-5's

Pic on the site:

Day I got it:

Today:

 

[45ZoaGarden]

Not gonna lie, it looks fine. The piece had very little pe in the vender’s pictures.

 

[jerrod]

I can’t tell from the picture is it white or does it still have some pigment. Did the bag smell when you opened it possible STN.

 

[Dilan Patel]

nah its alive it just whiteish, coral bag did not smell/was not cloudy. I guess i was not expecting to see a white acro with no PE. Just didn't know if anybody know this piece and what frags usually look like,

 

[DancingShark]

Yeah. When you compare it to the original picture it looks around the same. But the venders picture compared to other examples of this coral looks like poop.

 

[Dilan Patel]

thats what I was thinking lol. Other vendors made this coral look amazing and im hoping it tuns out like that. Im hoping it recovers well and will become a smoking piece.

 

[DancingShark]

Center one is my piece when I got one. It has died since my tank was new about 3 years ago. I jumped on acros a bit to early.

I would keep it low light and wait. Some pieces take forever to color back up.

 

[Dilan Patel]

Ok thanks. That color looks awesome!

 

[dadnjesse]

I agree it didn't look like much different before you got it.

 

[jda]

Just let it be. It it is stressed, you can do more chasing a cure than just letting it be stable. If everything else looks good, then put it in a safe place and just observe.

 

[Dilan Patel]

gotcha