HELP! Scoly colour fading!

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When I first got my scoly it was bright orange with turquoise stripes. I had never, and still have never seen a scoly like it. After a while though, it's colour started to fade. It's now pink (faded orange) and slightly see through, just a little, tiny little. The point is it's beautiful colour is gone. I don't know why though! Everything else in the tank is doing great.

My water parameters are in check, it's in low light.
The only thing I think it could be is my water temperature, 83-84F
I know it should be between 76-78F but can this amount of temperature cause such a drastic loss of colour?

I need your input, please!
 

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Temp seems pretty high but if it's been that way for a while it's more than likely not the issue. How much light is the scoly getting and do you ever feed it? Also what kind of lighting do you use?
 
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I feed it lots. But it doesn't eat anymore :(
my lighting is a maxpect razor. It's not in direct light.
It lost it's colour a while back. I tried lots of ways to help it, but hasn't worked.
 

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Can you post a pic?
 
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You can see the skeleton :(
It's also stopped eating lately. It doesn't ever show tentacles.

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I'm really stressed out about this does anyone have any insight?
 

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Scoly is stressed out. I will move it to a little bit more light...fauna Marin lps pallet and lps max to get it feeling again. Keep all fish and shrimp away from it during feeling. I got one cheap that was almost all skeleton and got it back that way.
 

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Feel it 2-3 time a week. Over feeding can also do a lot of damage specially with shrimp and such.
 
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Are you running led? If so that might be it. N matter how low the light is its led tend to bleach some of my scolies also. I just out them under t5 instead.
 
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Are you running led? If so that might be it. N matter how low the light is its led tend to bleach some of my scolies also. I just out them under t5 instead.
I really hope this isn't it, because there is 0 chance I am switching from LED
 
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Scoly is stressed out. I will move it to a little bit more light...fauna Marin lps pallet and lps max to get it feeling again. Keep all fish and shrimp away from it during feeling. I got one cheap that was almost all skeleton and got it back that way.
It was sgtressed in the light even more. Everyone talks about fauna marin, I'll try it :)
Feel it 2-3 time a week. Over feeling can also do a lot of damage specially with shrimp and such.
I used to feed it like six pellets a day, yeah realized a bit too late that was a mistake T_T
 

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Lol. My scoly been under radion for over 1.5 years. I have it on the open sand bed- when I got it; it was almost dead and now it's fat and getting more color
 

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Lol...over feeding and over feeling can be bad...I need to read what I type
 
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Bump? Any more ideas? I'm gonna try fauna marin, and lowering the temp
 

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I would make sure that it is not in direct light or flow. Also only feed if the scoly is showing feeder tentacles. It may be stressed from over feeding already and trying to force feed it may make things worse. I only feed my scoly maybe once a week to as little as once a month.
 
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I would make sure that it is not in direct light or flow. Also only feed if the scoly is showing feeder tentacles. It may be stressed from over feeding already and trying to force feed it may make things worse. I only feed my scoly maybe once a week to as little as once a month.
I haven't seen it show it's tentacles for months :(
 

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