Color Morph or my failure?

[Erick]

So at baymac I picked up a frag of cyphastrea it was orange on orange. After about a week in my tank it changed to pink and light blueish gray.
I'll attach pics soon.

 

[GreshamH]

Probably too much light.

 

[Erick]

Before (bad pic) it's the middle coral on the rack. Second pic: it's in the middle of the pic it is still encrusting the plug it doesn't seem to be branching though.


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[Gomer]

http://images.google.com/images?q=meteor%20shower%20cyphastrea

 

[Erick]

I was hoping it was meteor shower, but the polyps don't extend like that. Mine is closer to:

 

[Erick]

It might be too much light like Gresh says. I was just curious if it was a good morph or if it got bleached.

 

[GreshamH]

I was hoping it was meteor shower, but the polyps don't extend like that. Mine is closer to:

That's a Cyphastrea decadia, a different species then the Mine Field or Meteor Shower.

Both bleach out very easily in too much light. They are a lower light coral. Mine all live on the outskirts for the most part and ones in the higher light stay bleached, but grow very fast.

 

[Erick]

Maybe I'll leave it where it is to let it grow out some, then move it out of the light later to get it's color back.

 

[Otakuthugster]

Maybe I'll leave it where it is to let it grow out some, then move it out of the light later to get it's color back.

+1 on that. I accidentally bleached my meteor shower at half the depth in my tank. It went from blue with orange polyps to almost entirely orange to all gray. After ~4 months at the bottom of the tank, the color finally started coming back. Just give it some time. It'll perk up after a bit of recuperating.