Weird coloration?

[PicassoClown04]

I have this unknown acro (purple bonsai maybe?) and it’s being weird. I amped up my lighting a few months ago and it bleached on top a little. Now it’s showing new growth that’s very vibrantly purple but the base is losing color and the bleached sections are not recovering. The polyps still have color on the whole coral, but the skeleton color has been lost/ is fading in most areas. Any insight? Thanks y’all!

 

[bam123]

Back in the day I had a Garf bonzai about 10 inches away from a halide/vhos, it's base was tan and the coloration uptop was very purple with green polyps.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

Under good light that coral should have white branches and purple tips. That’s the natural coloration. The garf was special because it stayed solid purple throughout the coral. I personally like this coral better when it’s growing well and the white stretches down the branches. Lower light and it will just be a tan or green base with purple tips. I would let it go as long as the white areas are healthy flesh. The top picture makes me want to say the corals just starting to grow and color up normally.

 

[PicassoClown04]

Wow okay thanks!!! I was under the impression that white in corals is 99% of the time a very bad thing.

 

[Softhammer]

That looks perfect. I wouldn’t call that bleaching at all.