Intense lighting and/or low nutrients will generally increase colors in corals. The conditions in your tank are likely different in one or both of these factors when compared to the tank it formerly called home. Moving it higher in the aquascape may help. Just be patient it may take awhile to color back up.
Intense lighting and/or low nutrients will generally increase colors in corals. The conditions in your tank are likely different in one or both of these factors when compared to the tank it formerly called home. Moving it higher in the aquascape may help. Just be patient it may take awhile to color back up.
Tom
And here I moved it back into a little low light area. Tom, would I be safe to assume that the majority of the corals out there being sold are being kept under MH and or LED's? In which case I shouldn't be worried about *my t5ho's* being to much light for them?
I wouldn't worry about too much light with T5s. That's what I have on my 60g and the cube has LEDs. You may want to switch lighting when you get a chance. I was a big fan of T5s vs the cost MH but now with LEDs so popular and it "working" unlike some of the skeptics say, it's worth the switch. Which do you think is getting better growth and color?
Here is the growth pic under my LEDs vs T5s I got both of these frags at the same exact time in March (I believe) and actually the smaller one went into the cube.
No fair!! There's snails an rocks on the top one. An the bottom one well just looks better-lol-LEDs are nowhere near my budget at the moment. Gotta work with what I've got
t-5's are fine, there are million sweet tanks running t-5. You could try different placement to see if you get different color. Overdriven t-5 with good reflectors are very capable of being too intense.
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Where have all the colors gone? 
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