The color is real. Here is a flashed one with some clowns as reference. This is the brightest and most colorful I have ever seen of these, thats why I am not sure what it is. Montipora are not that colorfull usually. the polyps are a little retracted right now, since it is already dark, at day it is even brighter. The second picture shows a magnification, sorry can't do it better. Bought it cheap, was laying on the botton of an tank in an LFS, so backside is all brown, hope that it will start to cover everything with care. Thanks for the help.