plutonium

[emmanuel]

anyone ever see this before a friend just brought it in from California @ $350 for a 1.5 inch frag

 

[dherrera83]

take another pic without so much blue.

 

[thirty5]

Damn will that run the Delorian?? Get me some 1.21 gigawatts!

 

[albano]

a friend just brought it in from California @ $350 for a 1.5 inch frag

:scratch: OH SURE...a friend bought it!

any pics of mother colony? What will it look like?

 

[emmanuel]

:scratch: OH SURE...a friend bought it!

any pics of mother colony? What will it look like?

I wouldnt pay that I'll just wait for a frag It is a stunning piece but come on somebody in a third world country collected it for pennies someone exported it for dollars and then someone put a name to it and sells it for hundreds

 

[emmanuel]

take another pic without so much blue.

this is the closest I can get to actual color I took about 20 pics I have a nice lens nikor 105 and d60 camera but lack the skills . It is shot under leds that would be between a 14k and 20 k color

 

[Dre]

I wouldnt pay that I'll just wait for a frag It is a stunning piece but come on somebody in a third world country collected it for pennies someone exported it for dollars and then someone put a name to it and sells it for hundreds

For some reason i believe that.

 

[duke62]

AMAZING not how pretty it is but someone spent 350 dollars on a 1" piece of coral LOL..

 

[Mattl22]

Looks pretty nice would have too see in person ! I bought a frag of joes rainbow for $240 and it's pretty weak : (

 

[emmanuel]

looks great under led's not so good on 14k mh

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

350 buys an awfull lot of alot of stuff but really!!!!

 

[jackson6745]

You need a pic of it not under actinics. Several different acros can look like this under actinics. To get $350 an inch it would have to be something truly special, not just cool photography. The LED clearly give an actinic effect to bring out the fluorescent pigments

 

[saltwaterinbrooklyn]

Is that why sometimes you buy a really amazing frag but when u get home the colors look washed out or just dull and brown??

 

[duke62]

is that why sometimes you buy a really amazing frag but when u get home the colors look washed out or just dull and brown??

thats because the pic from a store or a distributer is either photoshopped or they run a 0 nitrate and phosphate system with no fish and no feeding which brings the colors out.in most of our systems we can not do this

 

[rbtwo4]

+1 on photoshop u can tell just looking at the rocks in the picture its so saturated

 

[emmanuel]

not photoshoped But even after setting the white balance with something white different areas of the tank will look like white balance was not set. I guess the white balance has to be set for each individual location ?
I tried to get a picture with auto white balance and flash the rocks look almost normal a little yellow but the coral looks nothing like itself

 

[Tonyscoots84]

You need a pic of it not under actinics. Several different acros can look like this under actinics. To get $350 an inch it would have to be something truly special, not just cool photography. The LED clearly give an actinic effect to bring out the fluorescent pigments

:party: rich is back :pimp:

 

[henrystyle]

guaranteed that acro will change color in whatever tank its in.
$350?? Thats nuts...
These wholesalers and shippers blast these corals with intense light to change the color. Color sells.
Don't get caught up in the hype.

I paid $350 for my old 91 honda civic wagon. lol (excellent car. wish I didnt sell it)

 

[House of Laughter]

:party: rich is back :pimp:

Who you kidding, he never left - he lurks like the best of em

House

 

[emmanuel]

guaranteed that acro will change color in whatever tank its in.
$350?? Thats nuts...
These wholesalers and shippers blast these corals with intense light to change the color. Color sells.
Don't get caught up in the hype.

I paid $350 for my old 91 honda civic wagon. lol (excellent car. wish I didnt sell it)

In my experience you blast a coral with too much light it bleaches .
I have gotten acans with the craziest colors from a big vendor at the swap only to have them die and leave a pink skeleton that from what I've read is a sign of dye like food coloring .I wonder if the same thing can be done to sps to get these crazy colors.