Rainbow monti

[Reefkeeper14]

So recently my local reef club had a frag swap and i bought a rainbow monti all the polyps on the monti are the same color so i wanted to know will they eventually change colors and how and why would they change colors. The frag has grown pretty fast and i haven't seen any new color all the polyps are a yellow orange color.
Thanks
Cole

 

[dsmhero]

What lighting are you running? I have just a plain jane monti that turned into a rainbow after a few months under my AI's

 

[CJO]

Mine gets yellow under bright light and more of an orange to red under less light.

CJ

 

[jstlsn]

My rainbow has yellow in the middle followed by orange and red at the edge. As it grows they seems to change to yellow where the new polys are red.

 

[purplereef]

Your Rainbow Montipora will develope green polyps as they age. All of the new polyps will be either orange or yellow.

 

[Reefkeeper14]

Im running leds for those of yoy thatnask... Purple reef do yu have any idea as to why they change color as they age... Is there anyreason behind it or does it just happen.

 

[darryl_v]

NO one is going to be able to tell you why with any certainty. It happens with the new growth....along the edges.

 

[Rockadile]

My rainbows always seem to turn all red.

 

[CJO]

Your Rainbow Montipora will develope green polyps as they age. All of the new polyps will be either orange or yellow.

Mine hasn't- I've had it for several years and it's about 12" in diameter.

CJ