When orange is really tan

[Gasdoc]

Am I the only sucker that keeps buying so called "orange "frog spawn and elegance corals based off internet pictures that are really tan colored .I know orange when I see it,and so far 3 attempts from 3 different online sources and i got 3 tan corals.Even at 6500k those suckers are not orange like the pictures.

 

[sexycorals]

Hahahhah.. next time I get an orange hammer or orange frog spawn.. get it from me . If it's not orange , ill give double your money back. I'll shoot you a pic before I ship. If it's not as pictured I'll do as I say. Double your money back. I'll bring back your faith in online purchasing and nice corals

 

[Grissino]

That's what I've heard!

 

[Tab28]

Feel you grief. I have a tan wall hammer that was orange when i bought it from lfs. I did not follow my own rule. Tell them to turn off blue led and turn on white. So my hammer is only orange at night when lunar lights come on.

 

[ohio reefer]

I bought a huge hammer colony that appeared to be neon green, under my halides it's almost gray.

 

[Tab28]

I bought a huge hammer colony that appeared to be neon green, under my halides it's almost gray.

That seems to be same thing with my orange. It takes a certain degree of blue to highlight the fluorescence. Under normal daylight their true color is shown. I guess if you can live with your aquarium looking like a teen ager's bedroom filled with black lights, you are ok.

 

[miyags]

I have a ton of so called yellow corals, that are just another green coral and red strips are brown??? De~sep~tion seems to be tolerated in the coral bizz. I know better now.

 

[All Delight]

Just like tan acros are called pink.

 

[All Delight]

curious tho what lighting are you using?

I bought a couple heads of the orange hammer that blue glow was selling a few weeks ago.

https://www.reef2reef.com/forums/blue-glow/155994-truly-orange-branching-hammers.html

It's not that shade of orange in my tank under t5's but it's reasonably close.

 

[Vpham]

Here's my orange hammer from blue Glo, it's faded but kinda shows a bit orange under blue light, no pic yet..

 

[Vpham]

That seems to be same thing with my orange. It takes a certain degree of blue to highlight the fluorescence. Under normal daylight their true color is shown. I guess if you can live with your aquarium looking like a teen ager's bedroom filled with black lights, you are ok.

Totally agree and laughing. ..

 

[All Delight]

Here's my orange hammer from blue Glo, it's faded but kinda shows a bit orange under blue light, no pic yet..

Not to criticize your pic, but thats a horrible representation of what it looks like. I have the same one and it's far more colorful than that.

 

[Bpain05]

Not to knock anyone but buying better lights will solve your problem.

 

[Tab28]

My wall hammer is orange under blue led. It is tan with a slight orange tinge under t5 actinic. It is tan under 20k mh. Certain colors are enhanced under blue light. But that does not make it the true color. When i now buy a coral locally. I now ask to adjust the lights to normal lighting. I like the way the coral will look like in my tank at night, now lets see what it will look like in day light.

 

[Jlobes]

Not to criticize your pic, but thats a horrible representation of what it looks like. I have the same one and it's far more colorful than that.

+1.

 

[ohio reefer]

Not to knock anyone but buying better lights will solve your problem.

the tank with my hammer in it before I sold the whole setup was running a radion G2 pro. When I blasted the blue it was a great color. But under a 50/50 mix it was gray. Same under my halide and T5.

 

[broodc2]

I'm glad I'm not the only one in search of a truly vivid orange hammer. I have the tan hammer in my tank. Those really orange ones only come from Vietnam right? The quest continues.

 

[Vpham]

Not to criticize your pic, but thats a horrible representation of what it looks like. I have the same one and it's far more colorful than that.

I know, right....I feel badly to mis rep something nice.
Pic were taken with cell phone, I need a good camera. ..

 

[reefkeeper51]

I've had the same experience with an "orange galaxea". The color looks tan now, two weeks after purchase. Tentacles from the new growth have a slight orange tinge, but a vast majority of the tentacles are tan :squigglemouth:. I run Acan LED lights.

 

[YodaHart]

I see the same thing with "gold" LPS corals. A lot of time gold means brown