HIgh End Pack + Beginner Pack

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these are clearly with post enhancement. I do edit photo from time to times so I know.
why not show us a photo of the corals taking with your phone camera.
 
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these are clearly with post enhancement. I do edit photo from time to times so I know.
why not show us a photo of the corals taking with your phone camera.

We are willing to take cell pics for anyone who requests them. Just shoot us a PM. A lot of packs end up getting a cell pic prior to shipping them out to the buyer.

As far as post enhancement goes, yes we do clean our photos up, crop them, resize them, color/white balance them. When we shoot in RAW, we use Adobe Photoshop CC built in RAW editor (the window that pops up when you open a RAW photo, to white balance.

We don't run an abundance of white lighting over our systems, so getting that "sunlight" look is a bit impossible. I suppose we could have more daylight tubes on hand, just for photos, but moving SPS corals around for a photographs is enough stress on them already (blasting them with 8 daylights wouldn't be ideal)

We've tried using the cameras built in white balance adjustments, and some of the corals just look plain weird when shifted to a warmer temperature.

Here are two more versions of the high end pack:

Verson 1, is pretty much true to the eye. You can see the black eggcrate underneath the frags reflecting the blue lighting from our t5s


Verson 2 is after the "saturation" slider has been moved all the way to the right


Version 3 is just Ebay Style ULTRA!
 

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Hi I'm new in sps I only have some montiporas and bird nest do you recommend the beginner pack or I should get some easier ones first thank u
 
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Hi I'm new in sps I only have some montiporas and bird nest do you recommend the beginner pack or I should get some easier ones first thank u

The acropora in the beginner pack are extremely forgiving, and generally known as "easier" to keep as far as acros go :)

If you montipora and birdnest corals are doing well, these beginner acros would definitely be great "testers"

We'd also be happy to send a couple freebies if you are willing to pay for shipping, so you can try a couple out. Shoot us a PM
 

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