Yellow porites. Couple questions...

[SamMule]

Picked up a large piece for very cheap at the LFS.
It's bright canary yellow under daylight, but kind of dim when I put it under bluer lights. Does porites have a tendency to change colors over time?
Tidal Gardens says blast it with light and flow, but some others I have read say low light. Which is it?

 

[Pistondog]

Picked up a large piece for very cheap at the LFS.
It's bright canary yellow under daylight, but kind of dim when I put it under bluer lights. Does porites have a tendency to change colors over time?
Tidal Gardens says blast it with light and flow, but some others I have read say low light. Which is it?

Blast if with light and flow.
Shallow reef dwellers, waves and high light.
My Darth maul can't get enough of either.

 

[lemonade]

I agree, Porites does not have much of a light limit. It can be growing basically out of the water in tidal pools naturally.

 

[SamMule]

Thanks, that's what I was thinking

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Darth mail was a lower light porites when it first came in. We struggled to keep it for a while until we figured out it was being over lit, lots of people killed it. But I got mine to the point where it would handle a decent amount of light after a while. It will turn light pinkish color if you over light it and it should be a solid velvet red.
Yellow branching porites you need daylight bulbs and high par with low nutrients to keep the coral a nice yellow. Add nutrients and the base turns green some and use mainly blue light and it will be just green with green/yellow at the ends of the branches.

 

[Ls7corvete]

Any pictures?

 

[Smarkow]

Darth mail was a lower light porites when it first came in. We struggled to keep it for a while until we figured out it was being over lit, lots of people killed it. But I got mine to the point where it would handle a decent amount of light after a while. It will turn light pinkish color if you over light it and it should be a solid velvet red.
Yellow branching porites you need daylight bulbs and high par with low nutrients to keep the coral a nice yellow. Add nutrients and the base turns green some and use mainly blue light and it will be just green with green/yellow at the ends of the branches.

Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered why darth maul did great for me (on a rock about 21” down) and yellow porites did not (same depth). This makes a lot of sense. Sooooo many sites list yellow porites as a low light coral but mine turned green and wasted away. Now that I read this, I think of Dana Riddle’s infamous light/flow hawaiian tidepool talk and of how many great porites I have seen on photos under daylight metal halides!

I want to retry this coral in my next build.