Please feel free to post more examples, but installment #1 is with coralline algae.
This is Big Bird Acropora $1250 for a 1/2 frag - grown under Big-Named LEDs with our custom settings that we will give no specs on, guaranteed to be a daylight pic and to have this color in your tank... as long as you have the same exact lights, parameters, fish list, longitude and latitude and hair-do otherwise it could be different. Of course, it looks better in person (they all do, don't they):
This is the same coral under 14K lights with no photo editing and filters. This is not a sharp picture, but it is honest.
The purple coralline in either side of the frag is a dead giveaway. The daylight photo coralline is out of focus, but the color is correct. The coralline in the first photo is just ridiculous and easy to spot if you know what you are looking for.
Installment #2: eggcrate and frag discs.. Nearly everybody should know what a Bounce Mushroom looks like, but these are all of the frags that I have on eggcrate right now, so sorry... so just pretend that this is an orangeish SPS.
First photo is wanting to sell a deep orange coral. Frag plug is purple and eggcrate is too. This could come out as a new kind of Bounce called a Tropicana Orange Bounce for $2500 a pop.
Daylight photo still shows a bit of a purple frag plug since this one is not fresh, but it is nothing like the one above. Eggcrate in the side is pure white. A fresh frag plug would be pure white too.
While also might not be the best photo, at least it is honest. They stray Kenya Tree also can be a good giveaway.
Anybody have any other examples or things to look out for? What is the greasiest photo that you have ever seen of a coral? Please post.
This is Big Bird Acropora $1250 for a 1/2 frag - grown under Big-Named LEDs with our custom settings that we will give no specs on, guaranteed to be a daylight pic and to have this color in your tank... as long as you have the same exact lights, parameters, fish list, longitude and latitude and hair-do otherwise it could be different. Of course, it looks better in person (they all do, don't they):
This is the same coral under 14K lights with no photo editing and filters. This is not a sharp picture, but it is honest.
The purple coralline in either side of the frag is a dead giveaway. The daylight photo coralline is out of focus, but the color is correct. The coralline in the first photo is just ridiculous and easy to spot if you know what you are looking for.
Installment #2: eggcrate and frag discs.. Nearly everybody should know what a Bounce Mushroom looks like, but these are all of the frags that I have on eggcrate right now, so sorry... so just pretend that this is an orangeish SPS.
First photo is wanting to sell a deep orange coral. Frag plug is purple and eggcrate is too. This could come out as a new kind of Bounce called a Tropicana Orange Bounce for $2500 a pop.
Daylight photo still shows a bit of a purple frag plug since this one is not fresh, but it is nothing like the one above. Eggcrate in the side is pure white. A fresh frag plug would be pure white too.
While also might not be the best photo, at least it is honest. They stray Kenya Tree also can be a good giveaway.
Anybody have any other examples or things to look out for? What is the greasiest photo that you have ever seen of a coral? Please post.