GSP Losing Color

My metallic Green Star Polyps has lost its color and doesnt have the long green strands anymore. It's wierd because the GSP thats right next to it (bought from a different LFS) is doing excellent. The tank seems fine, I recently tested all perameters. I've had this coral for about a year and it never really took off. Any help appreciated.

 

well, I have no idea do you target feed? perhaps it wants less light? It kind of seems droopy indicating that it's not happy about something. You might try a change in location - less light, more/less flow - it's hard to determine what its conditions are now from the pic aside from light.

 

Thanks for your relpy. I will try to move it to a darker, less turbulent area.

 

You may also want to target feed it a little bit....I'm far from an expert on GSP so hopefully others will chime in!

 

Ok so I figuired i'd make an update for educational purposes, hopefully this thread can help others.

So i moved the colony in question to the top the the tank on a sort of DIY rack. It was previously on the bottom and has started showing some green after a week at the top.




A pic of the other colony

 

it certainly looks healthier! Sorry, it appears that my advice was dead wrong

 

What is the lighting type?

 

Dual T5HO on 20 gal high

 

My GSP loves light. I had piece in a seperate rock in the back of the tank and it didn't have half the color GSP does that gets a lot of light. I moved it under the halides and now they look like there the same colony. Lots of light and mild flow seems to work for mine

 

But isn't that why we're here? Now you know and so do I!