So I know it's pretty common for some corals (particularly acans) to change color under different lighting conditions, sometimes for the better and sometimes worse. I thought it might be interesting to see some specific examples from everyone's tanks. Below is one of the more drastic examples from my tank.
Acan Echinata - The first picture is the coral as shown on Unique Corals' website when I purchased it from a live sale a few months ago. The second picture is the coral when I first got it in my tank and the last two are recent photos of the coral after it finally colored up. (The very last photo has the polyp lab filter on.) When I first got this one, I was rather disappointed as it didn't look much like the first picture. It stayed rather bland for quite some time but once I found a spot where it was happy the orange colors really started to come out and now it's one of my favorite corals.
I know this example isn't exactly comparing apples to apples as my lighting is much bluer than the vendor photo, but I was really surprised to see so much of the orange come out under the LED (Kessil A360WE). I'm guessing Unique was using T5's which brought out more of the purples and greens, but I really have no idea and don't have much experience on this front. I'm actually pleasantly surprised though and feel this is a change for the better.
Anyone have similar experiences to share?
Acan Echinata - The first picture is the coral as shown on Unique Corals' website when I purchased it from a live sale a few months ago. The second picture is the coral when I first got it in my tank and the last two are recent photos of the coral after it finally colored up. (The very last photo has the polyp lab filter on.) When I first got this one, I was rather disappointed as it didn't look much like the first picture. It stayed rather bland for quite some time but once I found a spot where it was happy the orange colors really started to come out and now it's one of my favorite corals.
I know this example isn't exactly comparing apples to apples as my lighting is much bluer than the vendor photo, but I was really surprised to see so much of the orange come out under the LED (Kessil A360WE). I'm guessing Unique was using T5's which brought out more of the purples and greens, but I really have no idea and don't have much experience on this front. I'm actually pleasantly surprised though and feel this is a change for the better.
Anyone have similar experiences to share?