Brown or pale?

[Acroporaaddict]

Would you consider this tenuis to be browned out or pale from starvation?

Photo taken with Galaxy s8, pro mode, w/b set to 10k. Picture has post editing to make coloration as real as possible

 

[RobZilla04]

Best to take a pic under whiter light with the blues turned down. Cant tell much color from that picture.

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Pro mode? I have never seen that on my S8. I just take pics with the normal auto setting and adjust the color with the photo editor, Forest and Blossom work well for me, pic posted as example taken under 20k and blue led light bar no filters. But yeah your pic is way too blue to tell anything.

 

[Acroporaaddict]

Maybe this is better? T5s off with radions set to 6500k. You can see the color of the chromis is fairly accurate. Imo the frag looks grey

 

[Blackice615]

What are your nutrient levels? Could be a combination of the two

 

[RobZilla04]

Thx for the second (better) pic. IMO that frag looks faded in color but I don't see tissue loss. Did you acclimate it to the light? How much flow is it getting? As above get some nutrient readings. Fragged corals, especially SPS, take some time to adjust when moved from the LFS system to our own.

 

[Charlie’s Frags]

Too hard to tell from the pics. Take a normal pic, with your preferred lighting color and hold some brown sunglasses in front of the camera lens.

 

[Aaron-A2]

If you are on Android, download the app "AZ Camera". It allows you to manually set white balance to 10,000 which is much closer to "normal". If you aren't on Android, try and find an app similar.

 

[Acroporaaddict]

Parameters are:
Salinity 1.026
Temp 77.8 - 78.2
pH 8.0 - 8.2
Alkalinity 8.5 dkh
Calcium 420 ppm
Magnesium 1400 ppm
Potassium 420 ppm
Nitrate 10 ppm
Phosphate .10 ppm

Tank is 50g with 3 MP40WQD, lighting is XR30 gen 4 with 3 ATI Blue+ and 1 ATI Actinic, 24" Reefbrite XHO. Par measures max out at 290 with Apogee 510. I'm just confused because there are measurable nutrients so it shouldn't be pale and the light levels are at an acceptable range. Any other ideas?

 

[Acroporaaddict]

I got icp test back and Bromine was 7x nsw values at 350ppm. I performed a series of four 30% water changes. Ill be sending out another Icp test to make sure my levels are acceptable. I have a feeling high bromine was the culprit for poor coloration. I added a new acro frag after the water changes were completed and will see If it maintains color in the new water or if it changes to a greyish color like the others did previously.