Red Planet?

[Zero Nitrates]

Anyone have Red Planet change colors like this?

 

[Robink]

Depends on placement in tank. How high or low do you have it?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I actually just checked the PAR in the tank yesterday.
It's at 250

 

[Robink]

I would move it higher. I have one on the sandbed under radions and it's red and green with pink new growth. Higher light more red, lower light more green.
What kind of lighting do you have?

 

[Zero Nitrates]

I really like the red, green and pink.

250w metal halide
T5 actinics
Reefbrite blue led

 

[Robink]

Me too...;)

 

[Robink]

cell pic, red planet upper left

 

[luke33]

I think red planet has great colors but it's a combo of alk and light intensity. Mine get 300-500 par with alk around 7-8 and all look like this. Usually though, higher light you get red/pink/white with very little green. Lower lightyou get more green and red generally.

 

[Robink]

I keep my alk between 8 and 9.

 

[DaveRaz]

Mine was more green at 250par, moved it to 400 and it has turned more red. It also getting a lot of flow here. One of my favorite corals in the tank.

 

[kevlow]

Mine was more green at 250par, moved it to 400 and it has turned more red. It also getting a lot of flow here. One of my favorite corals in the tank.

That is also a beautiful Red Dragon and I think a Pink Lemonade. Well truthfully, every coral in the pic is awesome.

 

[billrob71]

I have three different ones in my tank in 3 different locations ( high , middle and low )
All of them are the same and seems the one lower too the bottom turns a much prettier shade of red pink and green
I think the water chemistry has more to do with it then the light factor.
I only run 3 250 w mh and VHOs for lighting on a 300 double deep tank . Been a while since I ran a par meter on the tank but it was only about 200 towards the bottom maybe lower

 

[reefwiser]

Sweet Red Planet they do love high par. Like many of the real nice corals to more par the better. But then they also need Full spectrum and don't like points of light spectrum.

 

[Silkyslim]

Here's mine mid height under 250w mh

 

[Silkyslim]

 

[Recklessryan904]

Mine was more green at 250par, moved it to 400 and it has turned more red. It also getting a lot of flow here. One of my favorite corals in the tank.

What kind of lighting ?