Do you color situate your SPS?

[spspirate]

Do you color coordinate or situate your SPS? I know I do. For some reason I can't have two blues side by side or two reds. For example I wouldn't put a Red Planet and a Tierra del Fuego side by side, or a blue millepora and a blue tenuis in very close proximity to each other. I know sounds petty but I think a lot of reefers are like this. Normally I would do a orange, blue, green together with a tri-colored type all in one are but sometimes you collect so much coral your run out of space..Ha!! Heres a similar example from an older reef of mine. Trying not to blend but have each colony contrast the ones around it.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

Looks good. I read a while back the best way to get a striking contrast is to look at a color wheel. Place corals directly across from the color wheel next to each other and they will stand out the most.

 

[ReeferMaddness843]

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Do you color coordinate or situate your SPS? I know I do. For some reason I can't have two blues side by side or two reds. For example I wouldn't put a Red Planet and a Tierra del Fuego side by side, or a blue millepora and a blue tenuis in very close proximity to each other. I know sounds petty but I think a lot of reefers are like this. Normally I would do a orange, blue, green together with a tri-colored type all in one are but sometimes you collect so much coral your run out of space..Ha!! Heres a similar example from an older reef of mine. Trying not to blend but have each colony contrast the ones around it.

I really like to do this. Looks good!

 

[BigJim]

I couldn’t help but notice a few purples close together on the left there. :) It seems funny to meticulously plan randomness, but I do the same thing. I think you are better than I am though. It really looks nice.

 

[themcnertney]

I like where you are going with this, but I think some of those coral will out grow others and you will lose some. I would do this when the coral a bit bigger. My profile pic is a great example.

 

[spspirate]

The thought plan is always the trick. You also have to consider light flow depth and the type of coral that your adding. It's not easy but that's what's strived. A trick that I use if two corals do not play nice together is using a syringe of vinager and hitting the outside base of the coral which knocks it back a bit.

 

[spspirate]

I like where you are going with this, but I think some of those coral will out grow others and you will lose some. I would do this when the coral a bit bigger. My profile pic is a great example.

Your profile pic is great! Yes you do loose some but even a home reef is constantly evolving.

 

[spspirate]

I couldn’t help but notice a few purples close together on the left there. :) It seems funny to meticulously plan randomness, but I do the same thing. I think you are better than I am though. It really looks nice.

Thanks ;) Yea I need a red in there to separate the two.

 

[jlanger]

After taking lighting and flow requirements into consideration, color theory is next in importance where I place my corals.
When I was a design student, I took a color theory class and thought it was a useless class. Little did I know that years later, it's probably the most useful class I took in school. I use color theory all the time!

Here's some pictures I took for a posting I made about using color theory with coral placement.

Here's a picture showing what is achieved by complementing the red/orange of a setosa frag against the green/purple of some Emerald Eye zoanthids.


And sometimes, a single coral will complement the colors themselves.
Lobophyllia hemprichii brain coral.


And there's times when two adjacent secondary colors work well with each other; purple and green.
Bicolor hammer coral.

 

[ritter6788]

I always kept my colors separated. I went to great lengths to keep similar color corals apart.

Drove me nuts to have 2 of the same color coral in an area. Even if they grew that way on their own I would relocate if possible.

 

[Graffiti Spot]

I bought all my acros as "rainbows" so I don't have to color coordinate...o_O

 

[DaveRaz]

I used to do the same. Now that's im out of real estate corals get squeezed in where ever possible.

 

[PeterErc]

No, I coordinate them by space and I try to keep like with like so less stinging happens. Like I have my millepora somewhat grouped together.