Coral colour for new sps

[DDK]

Hello All I need some help

I got a few frags is sps from a week it’s in my tank when will they come to orignal colour right now it’s in this shape

regards
DDK

 

[Gatorpa]

No telling, depending where the frag came from it might never look like what you saw.

Online guys photoshop all the time, if it’s from your lfs then tank parameters, lighting it may look very different.

I often buy the crappiest colored frags and get then to color out in my tank it sometimes is a crap shoot.

 

[DDK]

But I got the very know source here in India and trust me we both are using orphek lights

 

[homer1475]

Alkalinity, phosphate, nitrate, lighting, flow, even age of tank can effect the color of SPS.


I've had frags color up within a week, and others take a couple months. It's really coral dependent. Heck my walt disney is nice and colorful, but has not grown a millimeter in over a year in my tank.

 

[DDK]

This hobby needs patience and always confusions

 

[Dburr1014]

All that^^^and stop taking them out of the water and moving them around. About a month after that.

 

[Dburr1014]

Alkalinity, phosphate, nitrate, lighting, flow, even age of tank can effect the color of SPS.


I've had frags color up within a week, and others take a couple months. It's really coral dependent. Heck my walt disney is nice and colorful, but has not grown a millimeter in over a year in my tank.

A year and no growth?
One year for mine this month.

 

[homer1475]

A year and no growth?
One year for mine this month.

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Yeah no idea why mine is just sitting there. It's got great color, polyps out all the time, just doesn't grow. No problem with any other acros either. Still the same nub I got a year ago.

 

[homer1475]

Back of my tank, so hard to get a pic. The other frag next to it(pinky the bear), was the same size when I got it at the same exact time from the same person.

 

[homer1475]

Actually now that I look, I see 2 new nubs that weren't there originally. It was originally a smooth flat top.