Who else is having their acans turn orange

[Mike Paletta]

Over time virtually all of my acans have lost their blue and purple colors and have turned various shades of orange and red. They are still very nice looking, just not the hot multi colors of when I purchased them. I have placed them under both LED and T-5 lighting, both tending toward the blue side, and the color shift has occurred under both types of lights. Is anyone else seeing this phenomenon and more importantly is anyone not seeing it? If so what lights are you keeping them under to keep their colors? Also has anyone been able to shift them back by switching them to other lights? Lastly is it the lights or are newly shipped acans just more colorful? Thanks
P.S. The tank parameters are very good and I feed them two to three times per week. They are growing like crazy, just losing blue and green colors.

 

[Pete polyp]

I have the same issue.... Seems to be too intense lighting. I moved them to a tank with 1/2 the light and colors started to change back

 

[Reefnjunkie]

I had plenty rainbows morph orange/red when I had them under just LED, I got rid of the LED and went to an ATI T5 and the rainbows returned, some took as much as 4-5 months but its worked.

 

[prsnlty]

My acans did this also and I moved them down and away from the LEDs where they got mostly T5 lighting. Have yours shrunk up any also? Mine did. Now they are much better and some new heads are popping up.

 

[Bjaeger7]

Probably too high lighting like the others have said. Same thing happened to me. Shading them and using mostly blue lights they are looking much better!

 

[Mike Paletta]

Thanks, that makes sense. Will move some down and see what happens. They have not shrunk as I feed them often. They are reproducing like crazy so that is not the problem, but losing the blue and purples has driven me nuts. I appreciate the replies.

 

[FLipp]

im over acans. they always seem to lose color and become more dull!

 

[Tab28]

Lighting. Many people have spent hundreds for rainbows only to have too bright lighting turn them into a $20 orange acan frag.

 

[nickdo]

Aussie Acan need very low light, I keep it under around 50par or less, kessil blue light and very little white only.

if u use t5, I saw lfs keep it with just 1 ~ 2 ATI blue plus and hang it very high. It is good reference because that lfs stock with big collection of high end acan colony.