Any ideas???

[rgun2515]

This Acan has been like this for a few months now. Did fine for about a year. Other than the color, it's doing well. Eating and the heads have grown. Any way to get the color back? Everything else in the tank is fine. All water tests are good. Lost color when it up a few inches higher to a brighter spot in the tank.

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[jackson6745]

I think it looks great the way it is. If you can get the color to stay like that long term you would truly have something different. You can give it a stupid name like passion plasma and sell it for $100 per head

 

[rgun2515]

Yea.. My wife likes it because it's almost all pink...

 

[House of Laughter]

Rudy,

I would say not enough light - when is the last time you changed your bulbs and where is it in reference to your bulbs (in inches??)

Jim

 

[Avi]

From what I can tell, that's a bleached coral from having been exposed to lighting that was too intense for it. I've had corals do that. In some cases they recover their coloration fairly quickly, but in other cases it took as much as a year. That one didn't bleach completely so I doubt that it would take that long for it to recover.

 

[rgun2515]

Right now it's about 10-12" from a 250 MH. Bulbs are about 9 months old. I am thinking of moving it to a shady spot again as it was for 7 months and was doing well.

 

[Avi]

About 15-inches below my 250-watt MHs is where I have my acans (lords and subechinata) and they're doing well at that distance.

 

[rgun2515]

OK. It's been in a darker area of the tank for about 4 months, and it's all better. Got all it's color back. I guess acans of this type don't like direct light...