Happy Welso with dull colors

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I got a welso from a store a couple months ago. It’s been doing well, very puffy, so I got another today and noticed the coloration of my new one is much brighter than the one in my tank. They both seem happy, but something in my tank is preventing the full coloration. Any ideas what it would be?

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It looks a little bleached. Also, wellsos don’t exist. They have been reclassified as trachyphyllias a LONG time ago.
 

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It does look bleached.

Bleaching is typically from too much light in our tanks. Any idea what the par is down there? Should be pretty low like in the 50 to 100 range. They can survive more light, but need to be slowly acclimated to the higher light.
 
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It does look bleached.

Bleaching is typically from too much light in our tanks. Any idea what the par is down there? Should be pretty low like in the 50 to 100 range. They can survive more light, but need to be slowly acclimated to the higher light.
Don’t know exactly, but I’m running 40% on my XR30s so I don’t think it’s that high. Probably not 50 but closer to 100-150 I’d say. I’ll lower the lighting and see if that helps. Thanks!
 
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