acro getting into trouble?

[woodstock '69]

I have had this acro (sorry not sure of the type - might be helliopora) for about 1 month. I love it! My fave I have so far. The last couple of weeks it seems to be changing? It looks like there is a growing presence of a bluish fuzz? - or something. Part of the trouble is my eyes are only so good, and these patches of blue are so small, you know maybe 5mm to 40mm x 5mm to 40mm. I just can't tell if it is a fuzz, or a weird algae, or debris, but it is clearly growing.

The cool thing is that looking from the top, the colors are unbeleivable - greens, blues, sparkles, this coral has thousands of tiny cillia growing out of the branches that wave in the current.

These pics are the best I can do. Do they help?


The first pic is the best and you can at least see that there are 2 colors. Onle kinda of blue, the other kinda brown.

Well all the stuff that is blue was the kinda brownish 2 weeks ago!! Thats the stuff I am asking about.

I loosened it and shook it a few times upside down. And put it near the front of my seio820 but the stuff doesn't move. So its more like a growth than the typical algae i'm used to.








Michael

[jer77]

Is it definately growing overtop the coral? Are you sure its not just changing color? Cause thats what it looks like from the pics, but it may just be the pics so I may be wrong. You may want to post in the sps forum.

[woodstock '69]

I can't tell if it is growing ON the coral or IN the coral. I just called my lfs and they know (explitive deleted) everything. They said that is is coloring up. I never thought of that so that seems reasonable?

Michael

[woodstock '69]

Also the lfs remembered the piece and told me it was a tricolor (perhaps a colloquialism) acropora heridata - (probably the wrong spelling), but I can't seem to find the name.