RC Poison Envy PAR

SamMule · Jan 31, 2021

When I got it, the colors were pretty pale. It has gotten darker now, but is turning more green than anything. Sitting just shy of 300 PAR atm. Do I need more light to bring out the all of the colors?
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Epic Aquaculture · Jan 31, 2021

Here's one of mine in grow out. I have it under 450 PAR.

Perry · Feb 1, 2021

SamMule said:
When I got it, the colors were pretty pale. It has gotten darker now, but is turning more green than anything. Sitting just shy of 300 PAR atm. Do I need more light to bring out the all of the colors?
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Good job getting that starved coral in pic 1 back to at least green. Should the environment continue to be maintained as such, the coral should continue to color up.

panic · Feb 5, 2021

I wouldn't get it in too much light too soon when it's so pale. Ease it up in intensity. I think mine is in around 450 par and has pretty decent colors

SamMule · Feb 5, 2021

That looks pretty amazing! Not planning on changing anything at this point. More light means adding another bulb to my hood and I don't really want to do that. Most everything is happy, and I don't want to risk torching anything.

Camaro Show Corals · Mar 13, 2021

Update?

JCOLE · Mar 13, 2021

Mine was under 550-600 PAR with blackbox LEDs. Now it's about 450 with T5s.

SamMule · Mar 13, 2021

Growing pretty fast, but the color has stayed about the same. Greenish with yellow tips.
Despite what I said before, I decided to add another bulb to my hood a couple weeks ago. The corals have actually been responding positively for the most part. (Had to move a couple LPS into some more shaded areas)
Poison Envy is at about 350PAR now.

Right behind the M. Setosa on the right structure. I will leave it here for awhile, but I have a shades of fall (left top of right structure) that refuses to get any color at ~400PAR. Might do a little rearranging and put it there in awhile if nothing changes.

SamMule · Jul 10, 2021

Update on this. Stubborn SOB still will not color up for me. This is the one acro that I can't make happy.
Here is a pic of the colony and a couple accidental frags that I made while cleaning a few months ago. I used the feags to try some different tank locations out. Lights haven't come on yet.
Colony @ just under 400 PAR:

Frag#1 @mid 400's

Frag #2. Higher, but way out on the edge. I wanna say it's around 300-350 PAR.

The colony and frag #1 started to bleach. (Along with the lower of my 2 PC rainbows for some reason...) When I went up to the full 6 bulbs in my hood a few weeks ago. Back down to 5 now.
At this point, I'm thinking that more light is not the answer and am considering moving the colony to frag location #2.

SamMule · Nov 4, 2021

It's finally coming along. Had a few tank issues over the last month, but despite as finicky as this thing has been in the past, it is actually doing better than some of my "easier" pieces.

guylaga · Nov 4, 2021

Interesting...

I got a small frag back in March that went through a lot before it finally settled in. The original branch is very much green, but the base is lighter and has some of the yellow coming through.