Interesting Acro question

[marie]

In my recent troubles I had a very nice yellow/green acro start to bleach out

This is what it looked like a few months ago


In the last couple of weeks the coral started to regain colour but definitely not the colour it was before. You can see a white branch in the back ground so it isn't a reflection of the lights... this coral is turning purple



Has anyone ever had such a drastic colour change before?

Oh and the tissue is still there so it isn't some kind of funky algae

[Aquattro]

Yes, I've seen corals come in one color, go brown or bleach for a while, then come back in a different color. Not always a color you want, but this time you got lucky

[marie]

Well if it keeps the new colour it will be a show stopper of a coral.


Almost makes me want to force the rest of my corals to bleach

JK...maybe

[niloc16]

marie i would definitely get it out of your system right away. send it down here to me and i'll see what i can do with it, ok

[Snappy]

Hopefully the purple zoaxanthelae in that piece will continue to stay dominant for you. Acro's can often be predictabley unpredictable.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Snappy

Hopefully the purple zoaxanthelae in that piece will continue to stay dominant for you. Acro's can often be predictabley unpredictable.

Just for the record there is no purple zooanthellae. All zooanthellae are varying shades of gold/brown, it's the coral pigment itself that gives you different colours.