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Old July 3rd 06, 03:30 AM
2ManyFish 2ManyFish is offline
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Question

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Originally Posted by hobbes
I have a small brain coral (green middle, red outside edge). It seems
to be thriving (very fleshy) but over the past 2 months the intensity
of the red coloration has dissapeared to almost none. The green is
still strong flouresent, but the red has changed to an almost
translucent white.

Anybody ever expereince this or have any suggestions?
I purchased one about 5 weeks ago and I am seeing the same thing. It was a nice red and green color and opened up at nite. Now it is loosing its color and i rarely see it open. I have a 24 gal Aquapod with compact fluorescent system. I do the iodine feeding weekly and cycle 2gal of water every two weeks. I get good test strip readings every other week when i test. I talked to two local pet store fish experts today. One was not sure and the other was sure I had my lights on to long, I was running then about 12 hours and he told me to cut back to 8 hrs. He told me to try that first. If needed the next step would be to move it to a spot in the tank where there was less light. I will keep you posted.