Guys I've seen the Trops Acid trip mother colony with my own eyes and believe it or not, it looked that good before they chopped it up. But this comes from someone who just sold a frag of it, so take it FWIW lol.
There is a reason that this piece isn't sold as a WYSIWYG under regular light. Because it is brown and red.
This is what it is being sold under because its the only way they could get $400 a frag.
I have the melting pot, and it is pretty much the same thing. Brown and red, but cool under actinics.
I have been burned on quite a few pieces, which is no big deal, just part of the game I guess. Although I have learned my lesson - albeit the hard way. :choler:
When and if I sell frags of anything, they all are under full lighting with no adjustment at all. There is no reason to doctor up anything or do actinics shots. If someone wants a piece of something, they should have the full information given to them, and in this case it is true pictures of what it will look like in their tank and in my tank under normal conditions. If normal conditions for them is actinics and powerbrights, by all means they can refer to that picture to see what it looks like, but they will have both pictures to choose from.
I paid a ton of money for some of this stuff, but I am not going to mislead someone the same way I did, so I can get the same money out of it as I paid. If the person likes it, they'll pay, if not oh well. I'm not going to sell them a piece though, and then have them open the box and be as ticked as I was when I first got it. Thats just not going to happen regardless of the money involved. If anything they know I am honest and will know exactly what the piece will look like right out of the box.
Thats my .02 on the whole photo vs. actual piece thing.
- so I am forced to cut them 
So my money will be were my mouth is.
