acro changed from green to purple.
- Thread starter russ-iv
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you broke it.
haha, jk, looks pretty healthy to me. possibility that mother colony was so dense that it didn't get much light in the light colored areas
haha, jk, looks pretty healthy to me. possibility that mother colony was so dense that it didn't get much light in the light colored areas
thanks for confirming what i thought.
my question is if the base that was green changed to the same color as the tips, does that mean its getting too much light? or its growing around the base? getting rid of zoox?
change in lighting is rather vague
My guess would be the lighter green color is new growth and the purple color is older growth - IE it changes from green to purple as it ages. Maybe it's stalling from getting less light or less calcium/alk/mag? It's still fairly new to your tank, it could be adjusting still.
Which tank was it in at Rits? Was it under LEDs? T5s? What is your lighting setup?
Which tank was it in at Rits? Was it under LEDs? T5s? What is your lighting setup?
first tank in the front as you walk in. radions.
dsuny 3watt bridgelux (60 degree lense), 40% peak blues, royal blues, actinics, 20% peaks daylight and hyper white lights.
1.025 sg
10 dkh
1440 mag
0 phos (.03ppm resolution)
<1 trate
500 calcium
8.1 ph
78 all day long
it is organically rich though. i am skimmer-less.
the problem is the green was the older growth. the tips were a blueish/purple which represent zoox not yet forming on the new growth yet.
im thinking the zoox on the base where the green was is regulating to the new lighting but that would indicate it reverted to the nonzoox based purple evidenced by the tips
Looks like a valida that turned into a plum color , my only thought is that I've seen many corals color up and change In different systems but never that much or in a weeks time , but im sure if it was water quality or something else it would be known to ya , keep us updated to its progress
i found a video of it the day i put it in the tank. so i did a snapshot of it and messed with the filter until i got what it looked like.
this is as close as i got but its pretty accurate.
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the green was slightly more of a darker "forest" green though
this is as close as i got but its pretty accurate.
the green was slightly more of a darker "forest" green though
Looks very close to my tricolor acro valida. When I first got it, it was run under only T-5s and looked like this
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Quite a bit of people buy like browned and washed out acro that aren't doing so good and later when they return to there original color it becomes quite the reward. But it is a gamble because you don't know what kind it is ahead of time, and it's a possibility it couldn't make it
yeah. thats why id just roll with a frag.
my tank is only a month old (from cycle) so i need to learn the nuances of my decisions. so far skimmerless has paid off but it isnt as stout as an established tank imho.
although the nitrogen bubbles in my substrate continue. idk why i keep getting them. i have a 1 inch bed but that is another discussion.
