Yellow elegance dull in color?

[LeleganceCoral]

My yellow elegance coral has slowly been dulling in color, and its healthy?

Here are some photos, i have changed the light from a 30 to a 50 watt, some nano reef led to a RedSea reef led 50, but it has been like this ever since i got it. Now its good to mention that it was doing very poorly due to 1500 magnesium but has been fine the last 2-3 months and no coloration improvement. Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[revhtree]

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[Kristopher Conlin]

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Corals can take a long time to regain color lost during stress events. Did it primarily lose its color when your magnesium was high?

Corals also react to different spectrums and it could have been cause by the change in lights.

 

[shakacuz]

welcome aboard the r2r board. hello from PA!

what are your tank parameters? how old/new is the tank?

tank seems fairly new which could point to difficulty acclimating for the elegance. considering the lights were also changed, it could be stressed due to that.

 

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[Evil1]

 

[vetteguy53081]

 

[vetteguy53081]

My yellow elegance coral has slowly been dulling in color, and its healthy?

Here are some photos, i have changed the light from a 30 to a 50 watt, some nano reef led to a RedSea reef led 50, but it has been like this ever since i got it. Now its good to mention that it was doing very poorly due to 1500 magnesium but has been fine the last 2-3 months and no coloration improvement. Any ideas? Thanks!

I have a big boy
Assure adequate lighting as they are photosynthetic and need to produce inner algae
Medium flow and feed chopped krill and shrimp
Add aminos occasionally
Any change in lighting recently ?

 

[Jimbhoy13]

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[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

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[kevgib67]

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[Brisk]

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[LeleganceCoral]

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Corals can take a long time to regain color lost during stress events. Did it primarily lose its color when your magnesium was high?

Corals also react to different spectrums and it could have been cause by the change in lights.

It happened when to coral was starting to open up again after being constantly closed for the past couple weeks. I only noticed it after it being closed.

 

[LeleganceCoral]

I have a big boy
Assure adequate lighting as they are photosynthetic and need to produce inner algae
Medium flow and feed chopped krill and shrimp
Add aminos occasionally
Any change in lighting recently ?

Changed the light about a month ago and the coral has been dulled since it opened after recovering. i dose amino acids daily and feed the coral about half a cube of brine shrimp every 5-7 days. Has medium flow, and opens up just fine, and eats just fine too, i will see what the par is with a par checker from my lfs, but the light is a RedSea Reef LED 50 at 40 blue and 20 whites.

 

[LeleganceCoral]

welcome aboard the r2r board. hello from PA!

what are your tank parameters? how old/new is the tank?

tank seems fairly new which could point to difficulty acclimating for the elegance. considering the lights were also changed, it could be stressed due to that.

The tank is around a year old and all coral have been happy exept the elegance during high magnesium. Before that the elegance was very happy and eating well too. When i changed the light the only thing i noticed was a bit more extension and coloration but colors have not improved since.

 

[zheka757]

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[vetteguy53081]

Changed the light about a month ago and the coral has been dulled since it opened after recovering. i dose amino acids daily and feed the coral about half a cube of brine shrimp every 5-7 days. Has medium flow, and opens up just fine, and eats just fine too, i will see what the par is with a par checker from my lfs, but the light is a RedSea Reef LED 50 at 40 blue and 20 whites.

As suspected, light may be playing a role. I would look into PAR although these coral do fine in PAR as low as 80, preferably 120

 

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[Gman83]

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