So I picked up a browned out lantana montipora. supposed to look like so:


I have the nice purple polyps extending from the base, but it started out with a brown base. Now I am seeing that deep brown go away and yielding to yellow (I hope). But im not sure if this is the case or if it is just bleaching out. I got the coral a week and a half ago. How quickly would it start to go back to its proper color? or is there such a thing as slow bleaching?

I put the coral mid way up (BC 29 is powered by 24x 3w LEDs) and in fairly good flow right near the output of my MP10. When I tested on Sunday my nitrates were .5ppm (red sea coral pro test) and calcium was 435. I use only brightwells products/salt. only thing I currently add is microbacter7 and regular water changes. I have a caribbean pygmy angel and some peppermint shrimps and 1 hermit crab that is like 4 yrs old.

I will try to take a pic of it with accurate color rendition but doubtful that will happen w/ a camera phone.