brown sps

Weiboy718 · #1 04/12/2007, 06:55 PM

i bought a few sps frags a couple months ago and none of them had color up yet. how long does it takes for them to color up? and how to look for pesticides?

Weiboy718 · #2 04/12/2007, 11:28 PM

anybody???

damienkee · #3 04/13/2007, 01:54 AM

depends on ur tank & ur luck.

some say few weeks, some say few months, some say few years & some say will never colour up for certent spiecies.

I say, try ur best to keep ur water parameter at tip top condition, with good flow & nice lighting... those should willing to colour up after sometime.

good luck!:P

slojmn · #4 04/13/2007, 10:19 AM

It certainly does depend on a lot of factors but if the corals are truly brown they will always be truly brown. If they are just browned out for some reason they could color up over months or a year. Hard to really know the true nature of wild corals unless you dive for them yourself

. I got a prostrata frag that was advertised as blue branches, green corallites with green polyps, it was gorgeous in the picture and I paid well for it. It was brown the day I got it, it continued to be brown for the next year, but it grew. It grew into a nice brown colony

. I almost gave it away, but then I noticed the tips starting to go blue. Now it has the green corralites, blue tips and some green hairy polyps but it still has a lot of brown to it. It is coloring up ever so slowly. I am so glad I did not give up on it. I have now had it for about 14 months. I think it will continue to slowly color up. I did buy it knowling the potential though. With brown corals that you don't know about it is always a crap shoot. Good Luck.