HomeWrecker under normal lighting?

Graffiti Spot · Dec 10, 2018

Can we get some updated pictures guys?
I had no intentions of ever owning a homewrecker frag but I stopped by a friends house and he had the best display of high end acropora I have EVER seen. Everything was grown without a bunch of blue light and it all looked better than the pictures I have seen online. I was there to buy a pink caddy frag and ended up buying a nice small homewrecker frag for $80! It was a nice looking coral, but it didn't really compare to most of the other corals in the tank. The polyps and coralites did have a lot more fluorescent pigments in them than your average tenuis. I would love to see everyones updates.

BoomCorals · Dec 10, 2018

Pedoconfuego said:
Can we get some updated pictures guys?
I had no intentions of ever owning a homewrecker frag but I stopped by a friends house and he had the best display of high end acropora I have EVER seen. Everything was grown without a bunch of blue light and it all looked better than the pictures I have seen online. I was there to buy a pink caddy frag and ended up buying a nice small homewrecker frag for $80! It was a nice looking coral, but it didn't really compare to most of the other corals in the tank. The polyps and coralites did have a lot more fluorescent pigments in them than your average tenuis. I would love to see everyones updates.

Can I come over?! Haha that’s an incredible deal!

I just picked up a frag. Taken under halide with Hamilton bulb.

Coronus · Dec 10, 2018

Sounds like the deal of a lifetime!

Coronus · Dec 10, 2018

Here is one of my colonies. Both are kept under T5s with supplimental blue leds.

jschultzbass · Dec 10, 2018

Price has come down to where i might pick one up soon! Anyone have the JF Jolt? That's high on my wish list as well.

Graffiti Spot · Dec 10, 2018

Coronus thats a beautiful colony, I love the pink in the branches.

Boom it was a crazy deal, he MADE me buy it at that price, it is just a little smaller than yours with just one branch. I got like 5 other high end large frags at 40 a piece, made my day.

Coronus · Dec 10, 2018

Pedoconfuego said:
Coronus thats a beautiful colony, I love the pink in the branches.

Boom it was a crazy deal, he MADE me buy it at that price, it is just a little smaller than yours with just one branch. I got like 5 other high end large frags at 40 a piece, made my day.

Thank you very much. It is my favorite acro in my collection. I love them all but that pink gets me every time.

adw · Apr 23, 2019

Updates pretty please

SeaDweller · Apr 23, 2019

Coronus said:
Here is one of my colonies. Both are kept under T5s with supplimental blue leds.

Dayyyyyyuuuuummmmmmmmmmmm!

jayala12 · Sep 10, 2019

2019 bump

AB_Reefer · Sep 13, 2019

SeaDweller · Sep 13, 2019

I feel frustrated with mine, as I’m not pulling the pinks I’m seeing others getting, even in heavy blues. Here’s a recent shot of mine in daylight.

Here’s a few weeks after I first got it, which looked so promising.

Any suggestions as to how to color it up? It grows quickly, just lost the pink. Got the blue terminal polyps though.

Rickyrooz · Sep 14, 2019

Archibald J McLauchlin · Sep 14, 2019

SeaDweller · Sep 14, 2019

Archibald J McLauchlin said:

you got a pic of that under daylight spectrum by any chance?

Guttersnipe · Sep 14, 2019

Joedubyk · Sep 14, 2019

Mine. Kessils .

Joedubyk · Sep 14, 2019

AcroNem said:
Oh boy here we go again. Yes it's simply an A. tenuis, and good luck finding an image of 12-14,000k that looks anything like the product pictures. It's essentially the new Walt Disney.

I have WD and HW colony right next to each other. They're not the same at all

smartwater101 · Sep 14, 2019

Daniel@R2R said:
So you're just making a claim that all reputable vendors use photography and photoshop to manipulate and deceive customers? Again, this sounds like an unhealthy amount of skepticism that's built on a preconceived bias. Not everyone is honest, but IME in this hobby, more people are honest than not, and that goes for vendors just as much as hobbyists.

I got to disagree with you here. Not necessarily with hobbyist being dishonest, but certainly the vendors. Aside from a small handful of vendors (Live Aquaria DD, Unique Corals) the vast majority overphotoshop their images. (Heck many sellers here on R2R do it. ) Take any picture from WWC, reduce the saturation by 50-60% (yes really) and you'll actually get a realistic representation of what you're buying and what it will actually look like in real life. (Granted WWC corals always seem to arrive very healthy, but it terms of photopshop, they're absolutely ridiculous.) And many many many vendors do this as well. Frankly, more do than don't.

I don't think pointing this out is unhealthy skepticism. If anything I think we don't spend enough time putting our foot down with practices like these. I think the small size of the hobby coupled with the fact many people treat these vendors less like a business and more like a friend, is exactly what lets companies get away with so much anti-consumer behavior.

But ultimately people buy this stuff, so I don't know how we'd convince vendors to stop. If only "vote with your wallet" actually did anything :/

Edit: I just realized I replied to a comment from 2017 lol. Didn't think I was in an old thread.