Browning Acros

[blue_eyes53813]

Do you have any pictures Jorgens? I would love to see the acros... I just reread my post and I was thinking oh gees I jumped on that one wrong... A couple months ago I tried to save an acro that was at the lfs behind some rocks , it had great color but was starting to turn brown.. It was already to far gone. I was thinking of that coral when I posted the post up above. Acros are very sensitive and hopefully they do good for you.

[prow]

most of my acro's changed colors when first added. usually brown/tan most have come back. but like mps9506 said i have some that grew fast with good polyp extentions and everything but never got there there colors back. i still have one that has not colored up, but it is growing like crazy and has been forever just no color. all others colour up but just this one doesnt. i even have another coral of the same genus that colored up but not this one go figure. maybe its just depressed and needs a psychiatrist instead of a chemist or biologist

[mps9506]

Originally Posted by prow

most of my acro's changed colors when first added. usually brown/tan most have come back. but like mps9506 said i have some that grew fast with good polyp extentions and everything but never got there there colors back. i still have one that has not colored up, but it is growing like crazy and has been forever just no color. all others colour up but just this one doesnt. i even have another coral of the same genus that colored up but not this one go figure. maybe its just depressed and needs a psychiatrist instead of a chemist or biologist

And on the same note I've had some that I fraged out that got wonderful coloration once I fragged them out and they got into friends tanks. Different conditions bring out different colors.

And one note on the red bugs, some of my acros got those really bad a few years ago. The result was bleaching and STN on the infected colonies. But do keep an eye out for em.

[Jorgens]

that was the first thing i looked for as I saw Bily's post about them. I still don't have a QT set-up. I don't seem to have the room so I do invite my own deamons l will admit that. I scraped the closed loop for awhile and just put a more powerful pump in the return. I'm still going to ues the extra 4 inlets with some valves to help flow direction. I should get about 3000gph turn-over and enough velocity for them. the fish we're havin a hard time swimming when I went balls out.as for pic...i sure do have some with actinics only tho....







for some reason my camera will not pick up flourscent greens. or flourescents of any color really. Or they just do not photograph well for me....

[SueT]

those are some nice frags.. I bet you'll have no problem with them coloring back up for you. Care to mention where they came from?? They are very nice..

[aquaman3680]

Being that they are on the sand they arent recieving that much light. I would start moving them up into higher lighting!

Matt

[Jorgens]

Originally Posted by SueT

those are some nice frags.. I bet you'll have no problem with them coloring back up for you. Care to mention where they came from?? They are very nice..

your gonna love this one.....E-bay. 9 for $99. I didn't want anything too expensive or rare for my first bat at SPS. Painfully for all my captives I learn better from mistakes. hopefully that has come to an end as everything I've kept so far stays in rather good health. I did loose 1 blue tang but I think it was a bad speciman to begin with. I'm still learning how to tell from the stores. My LFS is not the best with critters.

And thank you. I put them up closer to the light last night.

[SueT]

hey, doesn't matter where they came from they look great. I think they'll do fine for you.

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by SueT

I wouldn't worry about acropora turning brown. They usually do this acclimating to a new system. I have had frags that brown out on me but they always turn back to the original color or morph into a nicer color than they were. I would definitely get the trates down though. 10k is a perfect kelvin for keeping acropora under. Especially if their reeflux. LOL.. Now that'll show you some colors.

What she said.

I'm sure they will bounce back in no time. I have had the odd frag I just cut turn brown just from being out of the water long enough to cut & glue, especially with encrusting monti's,(sorry off topic- not an acro), but they do come back. I wouldn't worry too much, but yeah keep the nitrates as low as you can.
How long were they sitting in the sand?

[Jorgens]

I let them acclimate for 2 weeks to my 10 light. they were in 20k. 1 week with eggcrate on top. the 2nd week without and then I put them inplace. Full polyp extension on all of them so I'm hoping for the best.