What You Ordered vs What You Received

[Ty Hamatake]

It occurs to me that I've never, not once, had any Acro arrive with polyps extended like this Bonsai. Is that just me?

I want to know what kind of steroids he uses in his system

 

[Liquid360]

I want to know what kind of steroids he uses in his system

Ain't that the truth! He has a secret for sure!! Check these out in my tank, under only halide! Can't wait to see how they look under blues!!

EDIT: I couldn't wait. Here's the Bonsai under blues. Looks electric!

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Ain't that the truth! He has a secret for sure!! Check these out in my tank, under only halide! Can't wait to see how they look under blues!!

Very nice! Out if curiosity, why don't you see bonsai colonies very often? Didn't you say he gave you a pretty good answer as to why?

 

[Liquid360]

Very nice! Out if curiosity, why don't you see bonsai colonies very often? Didn't you say he gave you a pretty good answer as to why?

Thanks! Yeah he said most of the higher end Acro simply aren't fast growers and there's just not much supply. I got the impression he doesn't often get asked for colonies. Most people just want the frags. I haven't the desire to pay for large colonies, but sometimes they're nice to have. This bonsai was a couple hundred, a very serious bargain as far as I'm concerned!! I'm guessing that you just need to ask, be it Adam or any other vendor.

His response such that I'm not paraphrasing
"We are extremely limited by the actual growth rates of these things and another sad truth is that larger captive grown sos just don't ship well either. However 90% of the frags I cut are still well over an inch. the garf is one that I do have a lot of though and I'd be happy cut you do a larger sized piece if you were interested."

 

[Ty Hamatake]

Thanks! Yeah he said most of the higher end Acro simply aren't fast growers and there's just not much supply. I got the impression he doesn't often get asked for colonies. Most people just want the frags. I haven't the desire to pay for large colonies, but sometimes they're nice to have. This bonsai was a couple hundred, a very serious bargain as far as I'm concerned!! I'm guessing that you just need to ask, be it Adam or any other vendor.

His response such that I'm not paraphrasing
"We are extremely limited by the actual growth rates of these things and another sad truth is that larger captive grown sos just don't ship well either. However 90% of the frags I cut are still well over an inch. the garf is one that I do have a lot of though and I'd be happy cut you do a larger sized piece if you were interested."

Lol supply and demand. Definitely a very nice piece. Thanks for the reply!

 

[smokin'reefer]

Those are super nice. You got me excited because I get mine from him tomorrow.

 

[AwildcatsZ]

I love ordering from Bobby Moon at Kush Corals! Always matches his photos.

Won this chalice frag last week in an auction. Arrived at the door today. Currently floating in the tank. Can't wait to see it when I get home from the office.

 

[Liquid360]

I'm so excited about this bonsai. I can't stop staring at it! In the spirit of this thread here's what a ordered vs what I received... I've never bought a coral that actually looked better in person.
Ps. Not WYSIWYG.

 

[BoomCorals]

That's a great specimen!

 

[smokin'reefer]

I love ordering from Bobby Moon at Kush Corals! Always matches his photos.

Won this chalice frag last week in an auction. Arrived at the door today. Currently floating in the tank. Can't wait to see it when I get home from the office.

I was on a chalice kick a few months ago and scored 3 nice rainbows. They are as striking in tank as pics show.
Here's my JKR Confetti Cake on the interweb.

And here it is live and in person.

Looks a lot like yours with the yellow and orange in the eye.

 

[Velcro]

Ordered vs received. SC OP from battlecorals:

 

[AwildcatsZ]

Bobby Moon and Kush Corals nails it again, actually it might look better in the tank than in pictures!

Auction pic

Just before tank switches to blues only.

Blues only.

 

[smokin'reefer]

Bobby Moon and Kush Corals nails it again, actually it might look better in the tank than in pictures!

Auction pic

Just before tank switches to blues only.

Blues only.

Nice, and already getting some good growth around the rim.

 

[Liquid360]

Order from ExtremeCorals Memorial Day Sale. This time ExtremeCorals was dead on! It's a BEAUTIFUL 4in Wilsoni.... I couldnt take a from above shot due to current/depth, but I'm VERY happy with my purchase!!

Here's photo I ordered vs What I received.

 

[leahfiish]

I wanted to bring this thread back up, I figured 3 months is a good time to check in.
I am giving an update on my torch. I know torches aren't really known for coloring up or anything but I still was optimistic and wanted to give it time. I would love to see other people's updates as well.
What I ordered:

What I received, after 3 months the color does resemble the picture a little bit more closely. Mostly the green, I have definitely noticed that has started to show up a little bit more but still not really any pink. Or if it does look a little bit pink sometimes under certain lighting, then the green isn't there.
This pic is probably the closest resemblance to the original photo, and it's taken from the top down with hardly any blue light, surprisingly.




I still really like it and think it's a beautiful coral but I just feel that the picture was pretty misleading.

 

[Peng]

What I ordered:

What I received:

Really not a fan when vendors do that. Sometimes you’d see their pics being somewhat pastel, with a very light grey/blue background. This is a play on white balance after auto-adjusting your cameras WB with an intensive blue background. Adam had a thread talking about how to take pictures like that. Green shows up like yellow. Yellow shows up super bright yellow. This works very well with non-Blue corals. It causes a distortion of true colors.

 

[Peng]

I wanted to bring this thread back up, I figured 3 months is a good time to check in.
I am giving an update on my torch. I know torches aren't really known for coloring up or anything but I still was optimistic and wanted to give it time. I would love to see other people's updates as well.
What I ordered:

What I received, after 3 months the color does resemble the picture a little bit more closely. Mostly the green, I have definitely noticed that has started to show up a little bit more but still not really any pink. Or if it does look a little bit pink sometimes under certain lighting, then the green isn't there.
This pic is probably the closest resemblance to the original photo, and it's taken from the top down with hardly any blue light, surprisingly.




I still really like it and think it's a beautiful coral but I just feel that the picture was pretty misleading.

I’ve bought from them several times before. The main colors of their corals are correct. On pics those colors are more intense, which I understand. But it gets on me when I see colors, especially very light fluorescent hues (usually green or pink, like that peach pink color in the center of this coral on their pic), that aren’t there when you look at them with naked eyes. These colors can be misleading. I mean, when you compare their pics with Adam’s pics you get the idea.

 

[joe2]

It's an issue anybody who's ever ordered Coral online has dealt with. What you ordered vs what you got. I understand photos are made to present pieces "under a certain light". I NEVER expect anything I order to look like it does in the pictures. There are just too many variables at play. I'd very much like to see the photo presented online and a photo of what you received. Which vendors present the most accurate images?
I'd love for this NOT to be a vendor bashing thread, only actual coral you ordered, actual experiences/photos and not hyperbole.
I quite literally just ordered this torch not 5min ago from ExtremeCorals. I'll post photos once it arrives. I'm very curious how much blue is in the actual specimen.

There are simply ZERO vendors out there that Photoshop corals to the extreme that ExtremeCorals.com does....its really astonishing the difference you will see between online pics of theirs and real life. They all do it...but Extreme corals simply takes this way too far.

 

[joe2]

I've posted in one of these threads before with what I ordered and received, I'm usually good at picking the right ones to buy from but with 1 vendor have I been the most disappointed. That vendor was extreme corals, I don't want to start a bashing thread either as this is a big enough problem with a lot of vendors already. But I'm sorry you ordered from them, a lot of people have similar stories about their pictures being horribly doctored.

Ordered

Received, through dirty glass 16,000k but you get the idea. Their pictures are heavily saturated under only actinic.

Yes...people shouldn't be bashing vendors in general. but someone needs to call out Extreme Corals on their photoshopping....way too Extreme in this regard.

 

[dvgyfresh]

Pretty similar- POTO order. Might be my last coral online order but that’s a different thread lol