Porites lost color

[DVal]

I have a Darth Maul Porites that bleached/faded color awhile back, so I moved it to lower light. It's been about 2 months and the color is only barely better. My parameters seem to be pretty good. Alk 9.0, nitrates 4, phos .07, calcium 470, Mag 1440, pH 8.4.

Any ideas? Should I keep it in the lower light or go ahead and gradually move it up since it's been a couple of months? Or should I keep it in lower light until the color totally returns (or will it in that lower light?). Thanks in advance.

 

[T-J]

Interesting, since porites, and the Darth Maul ones, tend to like higher PAR. Are they in heavy flow? That is favored by them as well. I haven't had porites in about 20 years, so that's about all the help I can offer.
This Tidal Gardens page has some care information and a YouTube video:
https://www.tidalgardens.com/stock-darth-maul-porites.html

 

[DVal]

It was at about 285 par and in fairly decent flow. I was slowly working it up to its final spot when this happened. The place I was going to put it has higher flow and around 300par