SPS Bright Green under regular light but brown when lights off and using flash light

[SomeHappyFish]

My Green Branching Psammocora is bright green under the regular hours but when the lights are off and I look into the tank its brown/orange. It seems to be growing at the base before branching out.

Latest picture

 

[ryanjohn1]

Many sps start growth by first encrusting the plug or base it’s on. 2nd most coral will not look all that great without the spectrum our lights put on them.

 

[Nburg's Reef]

some coral only look good under florescent lighting. Most corals in nature look some color between yellowish brown and greenish brown while very few (in nature) actually look nice in white light.

Are you concerned or just pointing it out?

 

[twentyleagues]

Someone years ago from "the reefing community" made blue led flashlights to give to people diving for corals to see the colors that they would be in our tanks once collected. In a more natural or warm light spectrum they usually look brown, tan, or yellow. Its completely normal.

 

[Reefering1]

The dirty secret nobody wants you to know.. the most expensive" fancy" sps are ugly brown sticks that happen to glow "cool" trick colors if you shine the deep blue light on them. The cheap "old school" corals have actual true color that you can see with your eyes under any lighting. But that doesn't sell thousand dollar light fixture or get you a bunch of followers on the interwebs

 

[SomeHappyFish]

some coral only look good under florescent lighting. Most corals in nature look some color between yellowish brown and greenish brown while very few (in nature) actually look nice in white light.

Are you concerned or just pointing it out?

Concerned, thanks for the help!

 

[SomeHappyFish]

The dirty secret nobody wants you to know.. the most expensive" fancy" sps are ugly brown sticks that happen to glow "cool" trick colors if you shine the deep blue light on them. The cheap "old school" corals have actual true color that you can see with your eyes under any lighting. But that doesn't sell thousand dollar light fixture or get you a bunch of followers on the interwebs

Hoo cool thanks! It's my first sps and its the only one "changing" color at night.

 

[twentyleagues]

Hoo cool thanks! It's my first sps and its the only one "changing" color at night.

True blue wave length light excites fluorescent pigments in the coral causing it to fluoresce.

 

[Reefering1]

Hoo cool thanks! It's my first sps and its the only one "changing" color at night.

It does look healthy though !!