How Do You Keep Vibrant Colors in Your Pastel Polyps?

[Wy Renegade]

Do you have some comparision pics as far as how the pinks looked before versus now? Are they turning brown or ?

When I got em in October;


This is in April;


I'll have to try and get a current picture of em know. The full gold center is back, and just a hint of pink in the skirts, but not the full color like when I got em.

[MUCHO REEF]

When I got em in October;


This is in April;


I'll have to try and get a current picture of em know. The full gold center is back, and just a hint of pink in the skirts, but not the full color like when I got em.

I think pink and blue polyps are the hardest colors to maintain. The pinks can wash out or morph into a completely different color as you have experienced. Blues can turn very dark or lighten to a muted gray color. Looking at your pictures, what you experienced was light shock. There was an elevation change or a lighting change or shift which was too rapid or too intense. Seen it many times. There could have been a mass exodus of zooxanthallae which resulted in loss of pink coloration. With blues and pinks I always make note of every single parameter possible from the previous system they were in.

I've always felt that lighting, height of the tank, type of lighting source and previous placement dictates placement levels and light acclimation is a must with any polyps when the lighting scheme differs from the previous owners.

Pretty polyp you have though.



Mucho Reef

[Sir Patrick]

Before- added same day as above polyps-





And after- pic taken again, same day as above polyps-