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[darkreef]

Its also a Walt's coral so it was grown and breed in a tank . So it should adjust a little more quickly

[kien]

Originally Posted by darkreef

Its also a Walt's coral so it was grown and breed in a tank . So it should adjust a little more quickly

That could be true, but should not necessarily be assumed to be true. Walt Smith maricultures a lot of corals in the ocean. They eventually do end up in holding tanks but even those holding tanks at their facilities are fed by ocean water which is quite a lot different than synthetic tank water.

[darkreef]

That's good to know... Il just buy frags now off people

[tang daddy]

I will wage a friendly bet that greenish base stylo will eventually turn pink.

When corals are shipped they are stressed and tend to drop some zooanthelia making them look bleached and more vibrant in colour. I've seen many shipments with super intense colour, as they settle in they start to get abit darker more normal looking.

[darkreef]

Well they had two kinds there green and pink ! But I found pink sps hard to keep for some reason

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

I will wage a friendly bet that greenish base stylo will eventually turn pink.

When corals are shipped they are stressed and tend to drop some zooanthelia making them look bleached and more vibrant in colour. I've seen many shipments with super intense colour, as they settle in they start to get abit darker more normal looking.

A popular technique is to grow or harvest corals from deeper water, let them settle in shallow water to bleach a bit, making them very vibrant, then ship. They will usually revert back to their darker color once in a tank.

[TimT]

To maintain the pink it requires a lot of light. I have vibrant pink Birdsnest here that I have had culturing in tank for well over 3 yrs and in lower light it starts to go green.

I have seen coral farms from 2 meters deep to 5 - 8 meters deep. The reason for deeper farms is to prevent damage from storm surge and cyclones.

If you want to check out Walt's Coral farm here is a link to his website. Lots of cool pics!!!

http://www.waltsmith.com/Aquaculture/CoralFarming.htm

Cheers,
Tim

[tang daddy]

Originally Posted by Aquattro

A popular technique is to grow or harvest corals from deeper water, let them settle in shallow water to bleach a bit, making them very vibrant, then ship. They will usually revert back to their darker color once in a tank.

Is it called the shake and bake technique?

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by tang daddy

Is it called the shake and bake technique?

Perhaps

[asylumdown]

Originally Posted by kien

That could be true, but should not necessarily be assumed to be true. Walt Smith maricultures a lot of corals in the ocean. They eventually do end up in holding tanks but even those holding tanks at their facilities are fed by ocean water which is quite a lot different than synthetic tank water.

+1. I've got maybe 6 Walt Smith corals. While no coral stays the same colour it was when I got it in my tank, the Walt Smith ones have all morphed the most, and have taken the longest time to do it. One of my very first corals in this tank was a Walt Smith pink mini colony of some unknown acropora, it plated a bit, then went in to suspended animation from a growth perspective for over a year. In that time it turned dark green, then a really gross grey, then the grey faded to a metallic green that fluoresced under the royal blue LEDs, then the fluorescence went away and it was just grey-green, and now finally, 13 month later, it's starting to get rose pink growth tips and the body is a gunmetal green.

The rest of the Walt Smith corals have all grown incredibly slowly, and have all changed colours at least twice. Not sure if that's other people's experience, but it's made me shy away from buying them.