Nurture back bleached sinularia

[foxngn]

Hey guys, I gotten this piece of aussie sinularia.
But to my dissapointment, when it arrived it was somehow bleached.

To nurse it back to it's original state, what kind of care should I provide?
High flow, low light or high light & high flow together? If given much more light, would it accelerate the bleaching situation?

 

[fishguy242]

lower light ,med to high flow IMO.

 

[foxngn]

Currently I'm placing it under close to bottom with medium flow.
There's no issue with polyps extension,just semi bleached.

 

[thrillreefer]

Why do you think it’s bleached? I have a very light green Sinularia that normally just looks pretty similar to this. Could just be normal! But yeah, mid-lower light and decent flow, should color back up (if it will).

 

[foxngn]

Why do you think it’s bleached? I have a very light green Sinularia that normally just looks pretty similar to this. Could just be normal! But yeah, mid-lower light and decent flow, should color back up (if it will).

Cause when the shop send the pictures of the whole range of sinularia it was supposed to be a bright luminous green. But when i received, inside my tank even i switch the light to blue it doesn't seems to have bright green.

I guess it was either lights, or the picture had been edited. OR i just recieved a different one.

 

[WalkerLovesTheOcean]

Yeah - I agree. Gentle conditions until it colors back up, then slowly up the light or flow depending on the corals needs.

 

[Spare time]

I recommend dosing some coral food (preferably dissolved food like aminos and such) to provide it the nutrition it may be lacking from having too little zooxanthellae

 

[thrillreefer]

Coral photos are a pain. We need a way to standardize imaging! Maybe a specific clearinghouse app (+filter) that does white balancing and light metering to verify that colors will reproduce across tanks. (Or people stop trying to cheat on advertising photos.)

 

[foxngn]

I recommend dosing some coral food (preferably dissolved food like aminos and such) to provide it the nutrition it may be lacking from having too little zooxanthellae

Well, hopefully.
So far my routine for this tank is weekly dose of ab+, reefroid, and brightwell reef blizzard.