I learned a big lesson today!!

jordan3548 · Feb 1, 2011

Never buy corals you only see under LED's I bought some polyps that looked like 24k old nuggets lol I get them home and theyre really green and brown.

jonzee2006 · Feb 1, 2011

yea that sucks bro you can always through some T5's on them and you will have gold fever once again lol

nixer · Feb 1, 2011

well get some leds then!
when i first got mine i was like wow my stuff is really nice now. then i realized those were tiny aptasia glowing in the blue

aquafrags · Feb 1, 2011

that is all you see now days actinic and blue led blasted pics

Michael7979 · Feb 1, 2011

Yeah pictures are always a hard sell. Sometimes they look the same and sometimes there is a difference that only the live eye can see.

Hopefully they turn into those nuggets of gold for ya!

m and m · Feb 1, 2011

Where did you buy them from some places are natorious for this other people show daylight, i personaly run super blue T5'S with LEDs and love it.

DrTrey · Feb 1, 2011

jordan3548 said:
Never buy corals you only see under LED's I bought some polyps that looked like 24k old nuggets lol I get them home and theyre really green and brown.

Where did you buy from? I didn't think too many places around here played those kinds of tricks

btkrausen · Feb 1, 2011

Yeah, buying online is always hard to do, because they never look the same in your tank.

I go to a lot of frag swaps and see everyone running super blue LEDs to sell their stuff. I always ask them to turn on the whites so I can see what it REALLY looks like.

Captain Nemo · Feb 1, 2011

Sorry to hear that bro , sounds like you need some LEDs that way next time they will all be the same.

droblack · Feb 1, 2011

We are all so spoiled and used to glowingly fantastic corals. In nature, they all look pretty drab comparatively. Yet, I've never popped up after a dive and said, "Those were some ugly and drab corals down there!"