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I'm sorry - wasn't very clear was it? Underskimming or not skimming will likely result in an at least temporary deepening of color. Not sure how to quantify overskimming but anything that reduces dissolved nitrogenwill likely result in the same or reduced zoox levels and cause the coral to become paler. Whether or not colors become brighter won;t have much to do with aything but the masking effects of the brown zoox, because the colored pigments in zooxanthellate corals are fluorescin pigments and seem to be primarily a factor of light irradiance.
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Eric Borneman
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