Added a Miami Hurricane to the tank (3 eyes) about 1 month ago. Looked good when it arrived but a little pale. Placed it very near the bottom of the tank and over next 2 weeks it colored up well and looked like it was thriving. That has now reversed and over the last couple of weeks it's started fading and probably about three quarters of it is a pale creamy color. Last week I moved it to an area that's slightly shaded and I've been feeding daily with small amount of Rod's food. Coloring might be coming back a little but that might be wishfull thinking too. No apparent issues with anything else in the tank. Any suggestions appreciated.

Tank is BioCube 14 gallon with 72w of PC lighting. Parameters tested regularly and all within normal paramters with no major swings. Have a media rack for small fuge and chemi-pure in second chamber.

Salinity 1.026 (using refractometer)
Temp 79.5 to 80.5 (may creep to 81 occasionally)
PH 8.2
Alk 8dkh
Calcium 440
Magnesium 1350
Nitrates 0

Keep it in the shade and continue to feed it. These are actually pretty hardy animals and will recover over time. Had this happen to me as well on a much larger colony due to light shock going from MH to T5. Also check for phosphates.

When I was keeping my chalices in my BC14, they lost color sitting on the bottom. As a matter of fact, I had a Tyree Red Watermelon, MH, ME and some acan colonies bleach out on the bottom of that BC14, I had a retro'ed hood with three PC bulbs in it.

I moved them to my 110G with T5's and they colored up. IME bleached chalices can take a long time to color back up.

That's what I was looking for, first hand experience and it goes against everything I was thinking. I thought bleaching occured only because of too much light. Wondered how I had accomplished that with 72W of PC. Daily feeding seems to be helping it some but I think I'll try moving it up some and see if that helps too. Assume that needs to be done slowly? It's sitting in the sand bed right now so maybe mid-tank and then on a top ledge a few weeks from now? Still open to suggestions.

Thanks!

i have my chalices under 150w mh in a 10g and they seem to be doing great! strange....

I would move it up, and let it sit there for more than two weeks, then move it to the top, IMO, PC bulbs are fine, and I really thought they would actually be better than having my LPS under my big tank's light.
But it became apparent that after a month or two, that they definitely preferred the higher light. You may only need it half way up. Remember that lack of light will also bleach out your corals, I had a bunch of Ricordea overgrow this section of my tank. When I removed them, I found many pushed under some rock, and all of them were bleached white. Good luck, and remember patience...Chalice can take a while to color up after a bleaching incident.

I've noticed when I search through old posts that I see a lot of great responses when people ask for suggestions on how to.... but most of the time the OP doesn't ever posts their results. Thought I would bump this back up with how things worked out for me.

Based on fishez4alivin input I moved the Chalice up to mid tank and started feeding mysis ever other day. Happy to report that it's colored back up and even growing a little bit too. Thanks for the responses. If I hadn't asked for input I would have probably kept it in the bottom of the tank and even tried to shade it more.