Pink SPS turning green

[Miami Reef]

These are the before (the one on the left)

 

[Miami Reef]

Now it looks like this:

The base abs tips are turning green (the one in the front)

 

[shakacuz]

every tank is different. water chemistry has a part to play in the coloration of the coral as well as light intensity (obviously). some corals are a single color, or few colors while they are basing out (encrusting), and once done, they change to their final color.

 

[Mr_Knightley]

that looks like a Pink Cadillac acro, based off of the new growth. Growing tips are colored differently from the base, and Pink Caddy has a greenish-yellow base most of the time anyways. Only in ultra-high light and flow does this coral get a bright pink base. The polyps are always pink though.

 

[Miami Reef]

I have a par meter, let me test to see what it’s getting!

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Is that in a frag tank, whats the n03/p04 in there? I see your building the 254

 

[Perry]

It will return in good time, some just really sensitive to change, probably green out, the begin to color when it settled. Kinda normal

 

[Caseyoidae]

Alk swings?

 

[CNDReef]

High iron or low par is the first two that pop into my head. Could also be a disease ( forget the name ) but my pink caddy is completely green with blue/purple polys and I believe it’s from that disease.

 

[Miami Reef]

No alk swings. I keep alk around 8dkh.

It was getting 390 par.

I am currently running a polyfilter and I’m not really seeing any unusual color besides for the organics brown.

I’m have to test phosphates again, but it should be somewhere around 0.05. It was around 0.12 though before I removed the toilet sandbed.

 

[Miami Reef]

So…green is a bad sign? Is that the general consensus?

 

[J1a]

I would say observing green fluorescence in a recovering acro is a positive sign.

If I'm not wrong. Corals produce green fluorescent proteins first. These gfp then matures into other forms.

 

[Miami Reef]

I would say observing green fluorescence in a recovering acro is a positive sign.

If I'm not wrong. Corals produce green fluorescent proteins first. These gfp then matures into other forms.

I will agree with you on this! When I purchased this acro 2 weeks ago, it was pink, pale, and no PE. It just started recently showing tiny bits of PE.


I went back to the same LFS earlier this week and they still have the same frags remaining with the same sad pink with no PE.

All I can do is ensure that I keep my parameters in a healthy and stable range and accept that my acro will be the best version of itself lol.

PS: I’ve been using muriatic acid from the hardware store to lower alk in the new water, but I learned that they may add iron to it as a impurity.

So I have my sodium bulfate which is almost 99.5% pure, so I will make this change and see the changes I get. But yes, there is a chance that I am giving too much iron that may have resulted in this green change.

But yes, keep everything healthy and stable and enjoy the acros! I’m happy with green if it does stay green! I mainly just wanted an identification.

 

[Miami Reef]

Phosphates: 0.03ppm
Alk: 7.6dkh
Light: 300-350 par 14k
Salinity 1.025

Seems like everything is perfect.

So is everyone agreeing that it’s a pink Cadillac?

 

[guylaga]

High iron or low par is the first two that pop into my head. Could also be a disease ( forget the name ) but my pink caddy is completely green with blue/purple polys and I believe it’s from that disease.

Any more information on that disease? Mine is also completely green and is encrusting very slowly with no vertical growth for almost one year.

 

[CNDReef]

Found it , post 11

Cadillac Splice??!!

Hey guys, check this out. I’m fairly uninformed when it comes to grafted vs. protein infected corals. Can someone fill me in on the differences?? As I was taking some colony shots today, I came across my RR Pink Cadillac. I had seen this green appearing and just looked past it, thinking that...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Phosphates: 0.03ppm
Alk: 7.6dkh
Light: 300-350 par 14k
Salinity 1.025

Seems like everything is perfect.

So is everyone agreeing that it’s a pink Cadillac?

Here's a pink Cadillac frag from wwc..

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

Possibly pink caddy. This is mine