Red Buttons turning Green and behaving wierd

Below is a pic of one of my button polyps. This colony came on a piece of live rock that was the original in my tank. This colony hsa exploded from a 6-10 polyps or so to vertiable forest over the past 5 months. Now they are acting wierd.

The pic doesn't show it but instead of a dull rust red they are turning red/ BRIGHT NEON green striped.

The disk's are starting to curve as well, so they come up away from the mouth and then curve back down to the ends where the polyps come out and curve up again like some freakish mushroom cap.

I imagine that the color change is because they had lost color somewhere along the line before I got the rock, and now adequete lighting is rebuilding their photosythetic stuff population.

But why the wierd shape?

 

Yeah, the color is probably due to change in lighting. The shape is hard to say, likely it is responding to flow. Perhaps, for whatever reason, it finds that shape better suited to the flow in that area of your tank.

 

I don't know why they take on that shape with their disk but it's normal. Here's a pic of mine that began as cinnamon/yellow ugly things and ended up looking like this.

 

nice looking frags, good luck!!

 

Light is a Magical thing, I have some polyps that are from the same person that are in two different areas of my tank and now look completely different. I did more research on this and found that this is a great factor. I was amazed at how much this can affect color, patterns and over all shape and size.