Anyone ever notice this? I haven't seen it personally, but I think that I remember reading about it. Not sure why this one color is doing it, but I believe that it has to do with it being a wild caught mini colony.
A little background, I bought this coral from Austin Aqua Farms back in early March. It was bright green with nice green polyps. It stayed that way until recently when I noticed on the growth tips that the polyps were starting to become bluer. I took some pictures of it and I will show the original picture, and then the progression. I have thought about fragging the tip that has the blue polyps to see if it will grow in a similar fashion.
Here is the coral around the time when I bought it.
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And here it is today. These pictures were taking under natural light with a flash with my macro lens. As you can see, the proximal polyps are bluish. This is even more evident under T5s.
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Currently I have it about 12" below my 8x24w T5 setup. It gets plenty of flow from my return and one of my tunze 6055s on pulse mode. I have a build log if you would like to see more about my tank. Currently, I am running my params at 8-10 dKH, 450-500 ppm Ca and 1500+ Mg.
I will take some more pictures as my lights turn on.
Chris
A little background, I bought this coral from Austin Aqua Farms back in early March. It was bright green with nice green polyps. It stayed that way until recently when I noticed on the growth tips that the polyps were starting to become bluer. I took some pictures of it and I will show the original picture, and then the progression. I have thought about fragging the tip that has the blue polyps to see if it will grow in a similar fashion.
Here is the coral around the time when I bought it.

And here it is today. These pictures were taking under natural light with a flash with my macro lens. As you can see, the proximal polyps are bluish. This is even more evident under T5s.



Currently I have it about 12" below my 8x24w T5 setup. It gets plenty of flow from my return and one of my tunze 6055s on pulse mode. I have a build log if you would like to see more about my tank. Currently, I am running my params at 8-10 dKH, 450-500 ppm Ca and 1500+ Mg.
I will take some more pictures as my lights turn on.
Chris