SPS Color Changes

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I got this from a Manhatten Reefer in a 5 SPS pack. It was sold to me as Purple Nana.

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This is the same Coral after maybe 6 or 7 weeks under 2 Reeflux 12K 250 Watt MH and 4 54 Watt T5's:

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This is another coral purchased from the same person on Manhatten Reef. This change is also amazing.

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This one has gone from white with what was supposed to be blue tips to completely blue. It was sold to me as a blue aculeus.

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Yeah. I bought them thinking they would stay the first color. In his for sale thread he posted pics of his colonys and they looked the same as when I got the frags so i didn't think they would change color at all. I feel like going back and emailing him these pictures but I don't want to rub it in.
 
Yeah the first one doesn't even look like a nana. The first pic it looks like a valida, but now I don't know.
 
thats pretty good, thats what they are supposed to look like. my guess is that they were VERY stressed out during shipping, or they were under a bad lighting combination in the previous owners tank (maybe something like T5's or XM10k's), or maybe bad water quality in the previous tank.
 
Thanks guys,

Fragjunkie- no secret ... just good lighting and keeping water stable.

Surfn- I'm with you ... I think the guy that had them before me just had bad lighting.

reef-lover- not sure it's a nana ... I think it maybe in the bonsai family.




On a side note the Purple SPS has redbugs ... I just got a 58 gallon tank that i'm gonna use as a frag/holding tank. I'm gonna remove it and treat it with interceptor.... I would treat my whole tank but I have too mank good bugs and snails/hermits that I don't want to lose.

we'll see what happens next week.
 
one thing, i tend not to cut frags from the top of colonies, but rather the bottom, so they haven't been getting as much light.
 

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