Green Bali slimer brown

NatReef · Dec 25, 2023

Hello everyone , Recently my green Bali slimer acro turned a bit brown on the base , the polyps are still expanding nice and fluffy but the base color is weird , I had it for like 8 weeks now did well even has health green points , but my millepora and plating acro are both doing extremely well and even show some little growth ( have them for 4 weeks now ) ( pink and green ish color )

Red sea reef led 50 60% blue for 8 hours acro is near waterIine
Param:
1026 sg
7.96 ph
Kh 8.6
No 5-10
Phos 0.11 stable for 3 months now
Ca 421
Mg 1460
( first 2 pics the green Bali slimer other 2 the millepora and plating acro )

exnisstech · Dec 25, 2023

Disclaimer: I am not a coral expert

Are you sure that's a green slimer? I've never seen one that color before. The colors resemble my garf bonsai but the structure isn't the same. I also have a nice sized slimer and it has never been anything but green.

EDIT This is my green slimer

Fish Styx · Dec 25, 2023

Agreed. Not a BGS. You do have a good looking stick there, though. Let it grow out and enjoy it. Consider sending me and @exnisstech frags

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KrisReef · Dec 25, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Agreed. Not a BGS. You do have a good looking stick there, though. Let it grow out and enjoy it. Consider sending me and @exnisstech frags .

Add me to the list. A lot of new SPS will change colors when they are moved to a new tank. Eventually they will settle in and start growing ( I think yours is starting now) and in time it may look very different from what you bought and/or it will color back up into a larger specimen with the same colors you first saw on it.

There is a coral in a LFS that I have been looking at for a couple of years. New growth is “rainbow “ red,green, orange/yellow and the polyps are blue. In summer the tank gets warm and the coral turns brown the polyps retract and the rainbow fades to an ugly Dudley coral. They offered to sell the colony for $500.

When parameters are right they glow and shine. Any changes and they adjust and the colors follow.

NatReef · Dec 25, 2023

exnisstech said:
Disclaimer: I am not a coral expert
Are you sure that's a green slimer? I've never seen one that color before. The colors resemble my garf bonsai but the structure isn't the same. I also have a nice sized slimer and it has never been anything but green.

EDIT This is my green slimer

This is the slimer first 4 weeks when I got it

KrisReef · Dec 25, 2023

I think original slimmer was a fast growing staghorn branching coral. The one you have is probably a tabling coral that is green aka not the classic “slimmer” but just a green coral, possibly something similar to a “ Garf Bonzai” but again I don’t think it is that specific coral either.

Take a look at a reference like “Coral’s of the World” by JEN Vernon and you’ll find that it’s very difficult to distinguish between the many different species of coral that are present in the ocean but require microscopic evaluation to determine the difference between them. So many look alike but they are often completely different species.

Yours looks like a montipora to me but I am probably way off and I am not educated like JEN Veron to know really.

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Reefering1 · Dec 25, 2023

Kinda looks like shading... but agreed, sometimes they turn brown before getting color back. Better than turning white

shakacuz · Dec 25, 2023

could be a trace element issue if those parameters have been stable

NatReef · Dec 27, 2023

Fish Styx said:
Agreed. Not a BGS. You do have a good looking stick there, though. Let it grow out and enjoy it. Consider sending me and @exnisstech frags .

I wouldn’t love to give some frags when it’s grows , i live in the eu tho