siren's eye;589336 wrote: I put them at the top of my rock work for now. They seemed to have darkened a little and have turned slightly more blue (maybe), and the PE is better than before. I did take them off the disk, and that's when they first went downhill. Gee, what a grumpy coral, lol.
I decided to put them at the top because I have a favia that faded at the bottom, and when I moved it up there it darkened dramatically. Maybe the same thing with happen to the MS.
This coral was kept on the sand bed, slightly shaded under 500 watts of T5 (low par though) and it thrived...
Problem is it was removed from its frag disk very shortly after being glued on there to heal..this is the stem of your problem, its still healing.
You will also notice when handling cyphas that you can actually rub the color right off it like slime...looks like that happened around the edges from handling too much, happens to me too. honestly I would have left it alone until it was healed and growing. My MS turns green after fragging or when its unhappy.
If this one doesnt make it just lemme know, I have plenty more