Rainbow acan question

[WhitePanther93]

So a while back I purchased a rainbow acan.
Looked like this

after a tough time with a broken tank it lost most of the awesome colors
Now looks like this:

Now I know the quality of the pics aren’t the same but you can still see that it lost a lot of the blues,and purples. Some of the green remains.

so the question remains. When this acan starts to show growth, will it look like the old colors, or the new ones?

 

[Zoa_Fanatic]

So a while back I purchased a rainbow acan.
Looked like this

after a tough time with a broken tank it lost most of the awesome colors
Now looks like this:

Now I know the quality of the pics aren’t the same but you can still see that it lost a lot of the blues,and purples. Some of the green remains.

so the question remains. When this acan starts to show growth, will it look like the old colors, or the new ones?

The old one was taken under blue lights for starters. Second I’d say they have a color filter or an orange lense. Third, most of the really colorful ones for some reason drift toward orange when they morph. The top one of mine on that first pic looked like the picture of yours when I got it. The second pic shows what it looked like the first time it morphed. Acans are super bad to morph toward green or orange.

 

[jfoahs04]

What are you running for lights, and at what settings? There are several reasons coral would turn brown (i.e. high nutrients - most common with SPS, fluctuating parameters, etc.) but one of the most common for a new coral is that it's getting less light in the new place than it was where it came from. It would be helpful to know what the seller was using for lights and what setting they had the lights set to. It would also help to know how far away from the light the coral was situated.

Most "WYSIWYG" coral online is photographed under carefully selected lights, with quality cameras, and using certain filters to make the colors pop as much as possible. So some differences should be expected. But yours is brown, and I think that's more than just a camera filter.

 

[WhitePanther93]

What are you running for lights, and at what settings? There are several reasons coral would turn brown (i.e. high nutrients - most common with SPS, fluctuating parameters, etc.) but one of the most common for a new coral is that it's getting less light in the new place than it was where it came from. It would be helpful to know what the seller was using for lights and what setting they had the lights set to. It would also help to know how far away from the light the coral was situated.

Most "WYSIWYG" coral online is photographed under carefully selected lights, with quality cameras, and using certain filters to make the colors pop as much as possible. So some differences should be expected. But yours is brown, and I think that's more than just a camera filter.

Currently running a kessil a360x
Blue/white-20
Violet-20
Red-20
Green-0
I was using a filter to try to get a better pic as well but I guess it made it look worse.
In person it looks mostly red.
I was usin this:

This was one of the lense combos recommended by the instructions that came with the kit

 

[afrokobe]

Currently running a kessil a360x
Blue/white-20
Violet-20
Red-20
Green-0
I was using a filter to try to get a better pic as well but I guess it made it look worse.
In person it looks mostly red.
I was usin this:

This was one of the lense combos recommended by the instructions that came with the kit

you don't need both 15k and 20k lens attached together. Just one or the other

 

[WhitePanther93]

you don't need both 15k and 20k lens attached together. Just one or the other

Ah okay

 

[WhitePanther93]

Better but still pretty washed out looking.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

What are you running for lights, and at what settings? There are several reasons coral would turn brown (i.e. high nutrients - most common with SPS, fluctuating parameters, etc.) but one of the most common for a new coral is that it's getting less light in the new place than it was where it came from. It would be helpful to know what the seller was using for lights and what setting they had the lights set to. It would also help to know how far away from the light the coral was situated.

Most "WYSIWYG" coral online is photographed under carefully selected lights, with quality cameras, and using certain filters to make the colors pop as much as possible. So some differences should be expected. But yours is brown, and I think that's more than just a camera filter.

Thats right! Also why if its a little brown on wysiwyg ebay its gunna be brown in your d.t, they pile on the filters and photo magic

 

[afrokobe]

Better but still pretty washed out looking.

yea that looks better. Typically if you have pretty white lights, I use the yellow filter. If the blues are on, ill try to use the orange filter. Vendors are usually taking pictures in very heavy blues with an orange filter, which causes the colors to really pop