Pale brown acro

[copperkills]

I was just curious if frags in this condition can be brought back.  This is a pale browned out Leprachauns beard.  It still has polyp expansion but its overall condition is quite poor.  Anyone have experience bringing colours back once they have browned out?

 

[unibob]

If it isn't dead it will come back if in good water conditions. Can take awhile sometimes from what I have seen. Definitely a lot easier to lose colours then to get back

 

[spyd]

I would move it as high up in your tank as you can. Browning usually means either there is PO4 or nitrates present, or just not enough light.

 

[Salty Cracker]

I have a piece of that, and it was brown for almost a year.  The recent change of lighting has it pure white, but still good polyp extention.  It's supposed to have green in it but I have had brown with white polyps and now white with white polyps.  I'm definitely hoping to see the green come out now.

Bu short answer, it's a fairly hardy sps, and yeah it's probably PO4 or low light. 

 

[ricklalonde]

Heres a picture of the actual colony.

 

[Duke]

Heres a picture of the actual colony.

where do I sign up for a frag of this one?

 

[Darryl_V]

Your making me miss that hairy polyp goodness.

 

[Duke]

Your making me miss that hairy polyp goodness.

ya it cool looking, do you know its name? or anything about it?

 

[davesolo29]

i miss mine too.  was one of my best growers

 

[copperkills]

Well its three inches below WL under my new LEDS, should colour up nice then

 

[Darryl_V]

[quote author=Darryl_V link=topic=3809.msg33686#msg33686 date=1355877732]
Your making me miss that hairy polyp goodness.

ya it cool looking, do you know its name? or anything about it?
[/quote]I got it years ago as a frag from Dave Jelly http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-05/totm/index.php .  I sold the colony to Rick. 

As far as the name....well Dr.Sanjay Joshi (reef lighting guy) had and starting selling a coral that looked very similar and he called it the Leprechaun beard acro https://www.google.ca/search?q=leprechaun+beard+acro&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Dy3RUN7sGMjsrQHY2oFo&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1467&bih=853#  .....they dont come from the same source but I started calling mine my leprechaun beard acro.

 

[Duke]

[quote author=Duke link=topic=3809.msg33688#msg33688 date=1355878069]
[quote author=Darryl_V link=topic=3809.msg33686#msg33686 date=1355877732]
Your making me miss that hairy polyp goodness.

ya it cool looking, do you know its name? or anything about it?
[/quote]I got it years ago as a frag from Dave Jelly http://www.reefkeeping.com/issues/2007-05/totm/index.php .  I sold the colony to Rick. 

As far as the name....well Dr.Sanjay Joshi (reef lighting guy) had and starting selling a coral that looked very similar and he called it the Leprechaun beard acro https://www.google.ca/search?q=leprechaun+beard+acro&hl=en&tbo=d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Dy3RUN7sGMjsrQHY2oFo&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&biw=1467&bih=853#  .....they dont come from the same source but I started calling mine my leprechaun beard acro.
[/quote]

thanks for the info, I think I've passed it up a few times at ricks to tell u the truth now that you mention the name.. ill have to see if I can grab a frag from rick one of these days, I really like the green and the shagginess

 

[AdInfinitum]

A while back I picked up a browned out colony from SUM for $10 (I didn't know if an SPS would survive in my system, so it was a small gamble).

After about 4 weeks it went from a uniform dirty brown to this..

and my tank isn't really geared towards SPS (...read "dirty"  : )

 

[teebone110]

I have a frag of the lep beard and it is a must have, for anyone who is a milli collector.
Some nice shag action

 

[Darryl_V]

Sure T but its not a millepora....not sure of the species but definitely not a mille.

 

[teebone110]

Sure T but its not a millepora....not sure of the species but definitely not a mille.

The lep beard is truly unique, I thought it would be considered a milli because of the long polyp extention.

How can you qualify a miil species from other acros? Just curious...

 

[Darryl_V]

Millepora is just a type of acropora.  They way you identify is the same as identifying any species.  To me the lep beard is significantly different in corallite structure than a mille....

 

[copperkills]

So my acro appears to be colouring up now.  I can definately see it is getting darker with a hint of purple.  It has also started a "shedding reaction?" when i feed.  It becomes engrossed in long white stringy material tht doesnt appear to come from the polyp but from the actual skeleton.  I remember seeing this covered on here before but can someone remind me if this is indeed just a feeding response or a response to something foreign!