New Lobo Brain coral appears to be bleaching within 1 day of introduction.

[BigHildy53]

Purchased a Lobo Brain LPS coral from my local LFS 1 day ago. It is already showing signs of decay or bleaching; lower left side of the coral. According to my Apogee SQ-520 the PAR next to the coral is about 90. I run six Kessil 360's over a six foot 180g tank. At the time of the PAR reading the lights were 85% intensity and 35% color. This is the highest and runs from 1400 to 1900.

Ammonia 0.0
Nitrite 0.0
Nitrate 5.7
Phosphate 0.13
Alkalinity 8.6
Calcium 393
Mag 1350
Salinity 1.025

Photos are the best I can do with my phone camera. Pictures are from the top down.

What can I do?

 

[MohrReefs]

I dont know if it's worth anything, but my redsea led90 has an acclimating mode that drops the percentages to about 50% blue and 25% white. Maybe the lights are a bit much right now?

 

[ajhudson15]

I had one do this once and it was a combination of stress from the move plus getting hot hard with flow. Moved it to a lightly shaded area with gentle flow and came back. One it was back to normal I moved it back out and all was well

 

[Hemmdog]

Raise calcium to 420. Was the skeleton exposed when you bought it? The brown part looks older.