Anyones slimer ever turn lavender? [Archive] - Reef Central Online Community

FindingSalt

04/04/2006, 02:32 PM

I went on vacation for a week and left my brother in charge of my tank. When i get back my bright green slimer is now lavender with green polyps. My lighting hasnt change and everything else in my tank is fine. Any ideas on how this happened? The coral looks fine just a huge color change.

mr. pluto

04/04/2006, 06:29 PM

package your brother & make a fortune!

Jay4Robin

04/04/2006, 06:39 PM

did he over feed??

reptoreef

04/04/2006, 06:45 PM

Mine did... there happened to be a raise in phospate and the halides were ready for a change so hard to say which one made the diff, but after a bulb change and a 25% water change, slimer is back to green.

Johnsteph10

04/04/2006, 07:22 PM

That fast?????

jackson6745

04/04/2006, 10:05 PM

PICS!!!!!!

Wiskey

04/04/2006, 10:39 PM

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7113477#post7113477 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jackson6745
PICS!!!!!!

I want to see pics too!

Whiskey

FindingSalt

04/05/2006, 05:16 AM

Ill take them today.

Wiskey

04/05/2006, 12:42 PM

I be waiting :D

Whiskey

amuruges

04/05/2006, 12:44 PM

Put it on ebay....

MIKE NY

04/05/2006, 02:41 PM

http://www.tetongravity.com/usergalleries/albums/userpics/thumb_this%20thread%20is%20worthless%20without%20pics.gif :D

drake66

04/05/2006, 02:47 PM

:lol: i coudlnt agree more with mike's post :D

FindingSalt

04/05/2006, 03:01 PM

Well here she goes. My slimer was bright green before i went on vacation and when i got back this is what she turned into. The coral is not bleaching because its been almost a month since ive been back and no change. Also everything else in the tank has retained color. Theres a little die off in the bottom left of the coral but thats been like that for about six months and it hasnt spread since.http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/74562new.jpg

04/05/2006, 08:09 PM

funkay

gregm5

04/05/2006, 10:47 PM

that coral has become completely worthless and you should send it to me immediately

rkl303

04/05/2006, 11:15 PM

You sure that is a slimer? Doesn't remind me of my old slimer at all.

Wiskey

04/05/2006, 11:17 PM

Crazy cool, you now have a purple slimer with green pylops!! You might beable to get some serious money for that, tell it to grow faster :D

Whiskey

143gadgets

04/05/2006, 11:50 PM

It's weird... Mine is doing that too, butits a little darker in color. I don't understand why cause nothing else in the tank has changed. I bought it a few weeks ago and it is turning color.

FindingSalt

04/06/2006, 05:01 AM

I absolutely positive its a slimer. Thanks gregm its in the mail lol.

SunnyX

04/06/2006, 06:27 AM

If it is a slimer it doesnt look or grow like anyone I have ever seen.

I'm not too sure that it is a slimer, do you have a clearer pic?

Or maybe if you could take in a zoomed in pic on the corallite structure.

NaH2Ofreak

04/06/2006, 09:16 AM

Same thing happend to mine. There was very little polyp extension in the areas that turned purple.

Dennis

castorpollux

04/06/2006, 01:13 PM

i have 3 small colonies and the 1 directly under the halide has recently done that from a bulb replacement because of the increased par i believe. its cool i was excited and kind of scared because i though for sure it was going to die but its been that way for a month now and the other pieces didn't do it. it was recently fragged prior to this and its encrusting as we speak... purple and all. mine is a much deeper purple though with the same green corallites

JDS

04/06/2006, 03:47 PM

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7122341#post7122341 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SunnyX
If it is a slimer it doesnt look or grow like anyone I have ever seen.

I'm not too sure that it is a slimer, do you have a clearer pic?

Or maybe if you could take in a zoomed in pic on the corallite structure. I tend to agree

04/06/2006, 04:28 PM

The growth pattern actually reminds me of a purple SPS I used to have.

jay24k

04/06/2006, 05:07 PM

Doesn't appear to be a slimer to me either.
You do know that many corals will color up in the following depending on what stage it is in.

Bleached ---> Brown ---> Green or the true color ----> True Color.

Now, the shape of that coral does not look like a slimer to me. Also I've never seen a slimer have a encrusting base like that. Nice piece regardless.

thebicyclecafe

04/06/2006, 05:16 PM

That doesn't look like a slimer (A. yongei) to me... the brown thing in the right background looks the most like a slimer in that picture. Could be some tricolor type. Then how do you explain the bright green it was before.. that's just weird. Nice coral though.

bagedtaco

04/06/2006, 05:18 PM

doesn't look like my slimmer either

here's mine.

http://www.dubspeedracing.com/photopost/data/500/slimerclam.jpg