Maricultured SPS browning

Sdoutreefer · Jan 16, 2014

So I have a few maricultured colonies that are relatively new. Two I have had for about a month and one I have had for a week or two. All of them seem to lose all their color and brown out. My most recent Colonie still has colors on its tips, but the rest is brown. Is this normal for maricultured colonies?

Sdoutreefer · Jan 16, 2014

Oh and to add, my other SPS aren't brown, and I'm almost 100% sure they are aquacultured

Reef Pets · Jan 17, 2014

Maricultured sps are collected from the natural reef and then placed in a couple feet deep of water where they will grow for weeks or months before making their way to vendors. During this time they are exposed to extreme light in such shallow waters.
I have kept maricultured sps for many years with great success and the trick is blasting them with intense light, that's what they adapted to on the corals farms.
If I place maricultured sps in typical sps conditions they will lose color and then when placed back in intense light they color back up in no time.

Sdoutreefer · Jan 17, 2014

Reef Pets said:
Maricultured sps are collected from the natural reef and then placed in a couple feet deep of water where they will grow for weeks or months before making their way to vendors. During this time they are exposed to extreme light in such shallow waters.
I have kept maricultured sps for many years with great success and the trick is blasting them with intense light, that's what they adapted to on the corals farms.
If I place maricultured sps in typical sps conditions they will lose color and then when placed back in intense light they color back up in no time.

OK makes sense. I figured it'd be something with the lighting. I'm just very cautious about not bleaching my sps. Thank you for the input!