Wayne that cracks me up. I do remember you asking me that "glass in the
tank" question months ago but I never got back to you.
I had two decorative Kahlua bottles that I was using for decoration. They
have long since been removed as I needed the space for live rock and
livestock.

Fungia coral doing well, zoos look good and are multiplying well, trumpets
multiply too fast it seems. -They split before they are finished with the
previous split and the stalks aren't growing fast enough to give them room
between each other. Red Lobo brain didn't make it. Right from the start it
also turned to pink and was bony for months. One day I just gave up on
it... or it gave up on me I should say. I just cut a ton of growth off my
star polyps and gave some to the LFS. Getting an aiptasia problem. Inject
one and two pop up. I'll probably "rent" a Berghia to help here.
Everything seems to be fine or 'normal'. I'm getting tired of cleaning the
green algae off the glass though. haha. I have trace phosphates and very
little, indirect sunlight hitting the tank, definitely not over feeding.
The halides are feeding the algae and I can't do much about it.

Getting an aiptasia problem. Inject one and two pop up. I'll probably
"rent" a Berghia to help here.

B


"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
link.net...
You still have other corals besides the montipora. And star polyps are
still in the Anthozoa class. Yea I can see the montipora in the picture.

I don't see anything in there that would cause a problem.
What's the reason again that you have that bottle in there?

How are your other corals doing? Or maybe I should ask, how are you other
Anthozoa doing?

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:43 PM:
Thanks Wayne,

My lighting equipment is the same as the store however the store's
lighting is probably about 4+ inchies higher off the water and his corals
are a couple of inches deeper in the tank.

This is my first coral. I have other items like a torch, star polpys,
etc at the bottom of the tank but no corals like the digitata.

All water tests seem fine except I do fight to keep my water hardness up.
I do the typical ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, kh, calcium and phosphate
tests. Can you think of one I might check into to further examine this
problem, if it is one?

http://www.geocities.com/bryg30/83106-fulltank.jpg -you can barely see
the red/orange digitata in the upper right (under one of the blue-green
damsels) back when it was its original color.

-Bryan




"Wayne Sallee" wrote in message
ink.net...
Do you have other corals? If so what other corals do you have? Is the
lighting brighter in your tank than the store's tank? Going to a
brighter tank, can cause them to lighten their colors, and it can also
cause them to darken their colors. Also different nutrient levels in the
water can also make a change in lightness and darkness of corals. And
other factors of water conditions can cause a change.

Wayne Sallee
Wayne's Pets


*Mr No name* B wrote on 3/12/2007 1:55 AM:
I bought a orangish red digitata frag several months ago and it looked
great and grew fast for a long while. Over a month ago it started
turning pink and now it's very pink, I'm afraid to say almost white
pink. I've been reading about coral bleaching but nothing really
matches my situation. These have been pink for over a month, maybe even
a couple of months. The store I bought it from has his "parent" frags
growing great.

Any idea why this happens and what I can do? It's getting plenty of
light from my halides and actinics.

Thanks for the advice.

B