No you don't need to reduce your lighting time frame, and
no you don't need to reduce the light intensity. I keep
brain corals under 400w mh lighting 12 plus hours a day.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets



2ManyFish wrote on 7/2/2006 10:30 PM:
hobbes Wrote:
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.