what's going on with my live rock?

[marty7975]

This past Tuesday I got a shipment of 50lbs of fully cured fiji,with about 6lbs of just covered in nice purple coraline.When I got home from work today the purple seems to have faded a bit.Is this bad or normal does anybody know?

 

[reeffreak]

It's perfectly normal for coralline to die-off during cycling.It will come back with moderate lighting as the system matures.

 

[Smitty]

It's normal, it seems to do that when exposed to air or when exposed to different lighting. It'll come back.

 

[marty7975]

Great I was kinda worried as I'm new to this thank you

 

[sen5241b]

You only need to leave coralline out of the water for a minute or two and it will die. It will however grow back and eventually cover over the whole tank.