Honest SPS pictures

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A couple of acros under 10K lighting

Wild echinata

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The elusive Pink Panther ( not the WWC but DFS or Battlecorals )

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I’ve seen that many people seem to have great coloration with lower alk and almost 0 nutrients.
What I tried to do is just keep as stable as sea water parameters.
And it seems like my acros like what I keep.
 
I have only dived in the Pacific, mainly Hawaii and the South Pacific, but there, 99%+ of the corals are in shallow water, ie less than 5 meters deep with very bright "yellow" light. Yes, there are a few corals deeper in blue spectrum but they rare and they seem more muted in color. And the blue light down there doesn't look like the blue you see with LEDs, at least not to my old eyes.

In the Bahamas 130 feet down, I was shocked how much the light looked like our 20k led tanks and how bright glowing green some of the corals looked, although they weren't Acropora.
 

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