Rainbow Acan with LED lighting? Advice please?

[Darryn Lyon]

I have a 32-gallon Biocube with the LED lighting. I was going to pick up a rainbow acan from a fairly local coral place, they have a 2-headed frag for about 50 bucks, and she just warned me that these guys can lose some of their spectacular color under LED lighting, and turn more orange, and to try to use T5 lighting if possible. She said it may happen, it may not.

I'm just wondering what the likelihood of this happening might be based on what you guys may have seen or read, and if it's a good idea to grab this acan?

 

[Reefing Madness]

 

[Darryn Lyon]

Thanks! Ended up getting this little 3-headed guy anyway. Apparently the chances of color fading are pretty slim. http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/580a2b255df95/20161020_185400.jpg?
http://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/580a2b4e729d4/20161019_203239.jpg?

 

[HiddenUser]

I've found that some of the really awesome rainbow acans I have purchased have lost a lot of their awesomeness when I put them under my Radions.

 

[ahiggins]

Ive heard from random people that they can loose colors and all fade to a red/orange. BUT I have had 3 rainbows in my tanks-all LED-and they havent lost any color. Probably had them for 5 months.

 

[Rpujol85]

Color fading has happened to me. At first I thought it was LED, but the more research I do the more it seems to be a water chemistry thing.