Strawberry Shortcake help

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3 months ago I bought a Strawberry Shortcake frag from a local reefer who also has a little coral business.
The mother colony is shown below and over the last few months the frag has lost all color.
I had it positioned at the top of my rock work and it has been receiving pretty much as much light as my Hydra 26's can throw at it.
I have a couple more acros in a similar position and they are doing well.
It gets plenty of flow, that is definitely not the issue.
I have now moved onto the sand bed in the hope it was getting too much light.
35ppt
Alk 7.7-8
Calcium 465
Mag 1280
Nitrate 10
Phosphate 0.15

It is definitely not starving. I am feeding Reefroids twice a week and Reef Energy A+B twice a week.
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Could have been light shock? More is not always better! It will probably go dormant and brown for a bit now, just slowly move it back up and light acclimate it some.
 
Could have been light shock? More is not always better! It will probably go dormant and brown for a bit now, just slowly move it back up and light acclimate it some.
I have recently upped the intensity of my Hydras by quite a bit after discovering my previous settings were not giving me anywhere near enough PAR. But I used acclimation mode over a 6 week period and to be honest, it wasn't exactly doing that well before the increase. A lot of my other frags have definitely benefitted from the extra light.
 

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