Green Monti Cap turning almost white - too much or too little light?

[alex1977]

Hi All -

Wondering if I could get some advise. I have a recently purchased frag of green monti cap that was a really nice bright green when I got it. In less than a month, it has turned really pale - almost white. It's about mid-way through the water column in a 90 gallon with 2 Ecotech Radions as lights. Is it getting too much or too little light? Any thought on where I should move it? Everything else in the tank is looking great both color and growth-wise...

Thanks!

--Alex

 

[stingythingy45]

Lighting is only one issue that could be causing this.
Are there any other SPS in your tank?

 

[alex1977]

Yes - the whole tank is mostly sps, and they all do great. I have blue acros, green acros, red monti caps, blue monti digitata, purple pocillopora, yellow pocillopora, pink stylophora... all have great color and growth, which is why I *think* it's a light issue. But who knows!!!

 

[Turbosnail]

How are you water parameters?

 

[Owen386]

Could be a Million things as stated above. But one guess would be Bleaching, under what light was the coral grown under previously?

-Owen

 

[alex1977]

Don't know, it's a Captive Bred from LiveAquaria. It doesn't look completely bleached, it's still greenish, just very light. The polyps are a little more green, but generally, nothing like it used to be. I haven't checked water parameters in a while, they're generally quite stable, and as I said, everything else is looking great, just this one specimen.