Fox Flame brown. Too little light or just unhappy?

[OnPointCorals]

Lower light for sure. Mine was totally brown for the first six months. Took some time and eventually moved it to med / low light. In the last 2 months it went from sad and brown to much closer to as it should look.

Taken last week:

 

[madweazl]

What is being considered, "low" light?

 

[jda]

These always have to get a bit of size before they get colored very well for me... like 6 or 8 mini branches or about the same size as in post #21.

I keep mine at 350-375 PAR under 14K Phoenix, but that is lower light in my tank.

 

[OnPointCorals]

Mine that I posted in post #21 is under about 185 par in the bottom 1/4 of my tank.

 

[cFloor]

I had mine in the middle of my last tank and it was colored up well. When I upgraded tanks, it completely browned out. Had it down on the bottom in my new tank and it slowly colored back up. I then moved it up high, directly under T5s and it has kept its wonderful color. I also have some frags getting blasted by Radion G4s in my frag Tank and they have excellent color as well. I feel this coral just takes a little time to get happy

 

[erky]

thanks for all the posts here, I just picked up a frag from Jason this weekend at a frag swap. He told me directly to get it in lower light but not dark. I imagine mine is at about 300-400 par, i have not used my clubs meter in a long while, but might soon. If more people care I would be happy to post progress pics to see if it does pale out.

 

[JOKER]

Thanks for the replies. I am being patient. Moved to lower light, and will slowly find its spot.

 

[Evaaron]

Bringing this thread back, I have a mini colony that has great yellow but the red is way lighter than I have seen from some other tanks.
I tried moving mine from 475 par to about 280 and itmay have darkened a little but still not great.
This started out as a one inch brown frag with no color in March.

 

[Evaaron]

a picture from today

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Any update joker? I agree with others that it takes some time in higher light to color fully and browns easily when cut. Mine is right under a 400w 14k ushio But I haven’t taken a good pic of it in a while.

 

[rusgum]

Hello. Unpretentious acre. Growing like crazy on the top floor of the reef. In case of problems, it would be the very last to lose color. Growing so fast that it lost its value in our country

 

[Perry]

Mine continues to color up, sits 20" below 6t5 and sb reefbar. Using 2c+ 6 hours, 3b+ and 1 actinic + at 8 hours per day. Reefbar 12 hours per day 100%.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Here is mine under a lot of light. It did just acclimate to the new bulbs and stopped growing for a bit, you can see the green tips are small right now. Hopefully it picks up growth and gets more green in the tips but I like the base color with the deeper pink that it is now. Others I have seen look more purple in lower light.

 

[rusgum]

Quick photo

 

[rusgum]

Quick photo

An interesting point. Not visible in the photo. Where it merged with Florida, it changed its color to purple.

 

[JOKER]

Mine still hasn't really colored up. I will grab a photo when I can.

 

[SeaDweller]

Mine still hasn't really colored up. I will grab a photo when I can.

It took a fair amount of months in my tank for it to color up from faint brown to where it is today, and even longer for it to start growing like crazy. I’ll take a pic tomorrow. My original frag came from an ULNS so very muted color initially.

 

[rowdyreefing]

Brining this thread back! My JF fox flame is the only acro not growing. It has browned out and grown algae over the tips. I have 2 pieces, one in middle of the tank and other on sand bed
8.3.-8.6dkh
Phos 0.02
Nitrate - 8-12
Everything is stable and all
Other corals are thriving

 

[bleuchzsteve]

Brining this thread back! My JF fox flame is the only acro not growing. It has browned out and grown algae over the tips. I have 2 pieces, one in middle of the tank and other on sand bed
8.3.-8.6dkh
Phos 0.02
Nitrate - 8-12
Everything is stable and all
Other corals are thriving

Mine is white in color and came brownish, here are a couple pictures…I think I bleached it with too much light cause my parameters are good… is there any hope for it? The whiter picture is what it looks like now

 

[bleuchzsteve]

Mine is white in color and came brownish, here are a couple pictures…I think I bleached it with too much light cause my parameters are good… is there any hope for it? The whiter picture is what it looks like now