When orange is really tan

[Gasdoc]

Just like tan acros are called pink.

And the famous "yellow" acros that are green.We are suckers for buying brown and green corals just because someone else calls them yellow and orange.I have Kessil 360 LEDs and can't replicate the colors in the photos in my tank at any spectrum.

 

[All Delight]

You guys are making me want to take a pic of my "orange" hammer and post it here. So I can get an opinion of what color you call it.

 

[Vpham]

Please make me jealous. ..

 

[jedimasterben]

And the famous "yellow" acros that are green.We are suckers for buying brown and green corals just because someone else calls them yellow and orange.I have Kessil 360 LEDs and can't replicate the colors in the photos in my tank at any spectrum.

That's because you're missing the key element in taking pictures of corals - the saturation slider in Photoshop. Sad, but true.

 

[Gasdoc]

That's because you're missing the key element in taking pictures of corals - the saturation slider in Photoshop. Sad, but true.

Photoshop or real?What do you think?

 

[jedimasterben]

Photoshop or real?What do you think?

Look behind the coral. Typically you'll also find that vendors using black frag racks are, uh, less honest about their pictures.

 

[Gasdoc]

Can this be real?It sold for $450 from an on line vendor?Now that's serious orange if it's real.

 

[Afishionado]

You always have to put other things near it to show color comparison and that it's not really altered/exaggerated.

Here is my pic of orange hammer.

White is there as plain as day. (Frag dish as well as some skeleton frkn the hammer itaelf.) Black egg crate is shown with hints of purple coralline algae.

Pretty much on the dot and not exaggerated in colors.

 

[Mr. Microscope]

My gold torch was mostly tannish, but it suddenly got very gold/yellow. I'd give them a chance. Most people have lights on the bluer end anyway.

 

[mylittlejade]

Take a picture Darrell!!!

 

[ingtar_shinowa]

there is something to be said about tank parameters too. Alot of corals fade in captivity due to nutrient issues and feeding regimen. I have a true orange wall hammer. It looked better when I got it in the mail, and its taken time to adjust to my aquarium's parameters. Its always been orange though. I have a paraancora and a paradivisa coming from blue glow as well. I got a yellow hammer from Mike and it was always very yellow, another one i got was more gold, but its purple underneath so I'm fostering that 'lakers' combo in lower light. Where you place a coral makes a big difference too. I've had two corals from the same colony look incredibly different due to location.

 

[Collinslice]

there is something to be said about tank parameters too. Alot of corals fade in captivity due to nutrient issues and feeding regimen. I have a true orange wall hammer. It looked better when I got it in the mail, and its taken time to adjust to my aquarium's parameters. Its always been orange though. I have a paraancora and a paradivisa coming from blue glow as well. I got a yellow hammer from Mike and it was always very yellow, another one i got was more gold, but its purple underneath so I'm fostering that 'lakers' combo in lower light. Where you place a coral makes a big difference too. I've had two corals from the same colony look incredibly different due to location.

+1 to all of this. I find that my golds/yellows come out a LOT more in higher light where my bright blues come from low in the tank. Can take a good month or two to start showing really nice color. Always helps to feed if it will accept it

 

[rogersb]

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've been waiting for your pics. I also have the same orange hammer from them and that pic that was posted it actually not that far off from how mine looks. I thought maybe I got a couple heads from the bottom and I've been waiting for them to color up but now I'm thinking I bought a super saturated with photoshop piece. I have leds and vho super actinics so I get some serious color out of pieces. This one just doesn't have it to give.

 

[markalot]

I bought a gold torch from a nearby LFS. It was gold in the store, turned brownish after adding it to my tank, but colored back up after a few months. It's a nice yellow under whites and a sharp gold under blues. This was from a 20 minute ride home so I imagine any shipping would be worse for color loss.

 

[davidwinn101]

Yeah Ive had this issue/success myself. I have purchased multiple "yellow", "orange", "blue". Im firm believer in if it is legit, your parameters have to be identical to the host. Ive had some change, others remain.

 

[cdavis]

I just got about 20 heads of orange octospawn in yesterday. This is what it looks like under normal white light.

 

[Vpham]

I've been waiting for your pics. I also have the same orange hammer from them and that pic that was posted it actually not that far off from how mine looks. I thought maybe I got a couple heads from the bottom and I've been waiting for them to color up but now I'm thinking I bought a super saturated with photoshop piece. I have leds and vho super actinics so I get some serious color out of pieces. This one just doesn't have it to give.

+1. And my picture was taken under daylight DIY LEDs, cell phone...let's see urs in the same criteria, all delightop2:

 

[akitareefer]

When orange is really orange 14k radions. Been seeing them all over the place now