Pink lemonade green

[PghReef]

Bought this a couple months back, looks nice e and yellow then. Now it's mostly a big green nub.

Sg 1.026
Alk 8
CA 450
Nitrate 20
Phos .08

High flow, polyps still come out. Thinking it's either lighting or just needs time to settle in ans putnout new growth. The 1 thing I've never done is rent a par meter, Thinking I need to do this soon.

 

[Steve and his Animals]

I find acros and other SPS change color the most when it comes to lighting SPECTRUM, not just par. For instance, I run a lot of white in my spectrum, so a lot of acros turn green under my lights regardless of how they looked when I got them. My green pavona was reddish for awhile, then I turned down the whites/upped the blues and it returned to a mint color.

 

[PghReef]

I find acros and other SPS change color the most when it comes to lighting SPECTRUM, not just par. For instance, I run a lot of white in my spectrum, so a lot of acros turn green under my lights regardless of how they looked when I got them. My green pavona was reddish for awhile, then I turned down the whites/upped the blues and it returned to a mint color.

A few weeks ago I did change out the purple+ for a 2nd actinic.

Now its 2 actinic, 1 blue+, and + coral+ supplemented with 2 kessil 360x. They max at 40% intensity and 60%color.

 

[stovenut]

It hasn't starting encrusting on the rock yet, so it looks like it needs more time. The new growth look nice though.

 

[PghReef]

It hasn't starting encrusting on the rock yet, so it looks like it needs more time. The new growth look nice though.

It hasn't yet. Wasn't sure if it was just new growth fades over time to green and on a growing colony the new growth would be that yellow color or if the old growth was supposed to remain yellow.

Either way just settling in still, seems to be taking longer then the others introduced around the same time. The red planet, blue tort, and Blueberry stag have all encrusted and grown. This guy just sits and changed to green.

 

[stovenut]

My acros all seem to only encrust for the first 2 months as they adjust to my lighting and parameters. After that they color up and start growing their sticks.

 

[PghReef]

My acros all seem to only encrust for the first 2 months as they adjust to my lighting and parameters. After that they color up and start growing their sticks.

Mine are all over the place. I have a piece of tierra Del fuego, a tiny nub I bought over a year ago that has done nothing. Somebody bit the tip off and it healed over within 2 days though so I know it's alive just not growing.

Then I have this green slimer and acroberry also from a nub about a year ago.