Acro from J&L
 

Interesting how a piece of coral can change so much in a day of shipping?
Here is the picture from J&L's website of the blue acro.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...1481acro-1.jpg

Here is how it looked when I got it and still does.
http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...om_J_L-med.jpg

My feeling is this coral was misrepresented but the more important question is how can I get it to look like their picture?

With incredibly intense actinic lighting and by somehow installing Adobe Photoshop onto the front glass of your tank.....

I actually saw that acro when I was in JL's. It looked exactly as pictured. My guess is that the stress of shipping browned out the coral.

Ya I saw it too. Give it some time

J

Well I'm glad to hear that it did look that once. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I have had other stuff come to me by air before and it was always ok when I got it. Maybe they need to look at another courier.
Thanks,

It is not uncommon at all for an acro to lose a lot of its colour during shipping.. I'm sure under the right conditions, it'll be back in a couple weeks.. Nice piece!

This time of year, shipping corals is very hard on them. If they dont show up in a block of Ice, I'd say your lucky :biggrin:

couple of months
 

i think thats gonna take a couple of months for it to color back up. they can deteoriate as much in 24 hours but 2-4 months for them to recover.

Harvey... this piece was sweet. Ya should have picked this one up cuz it would be looking sweet in my sump :biggrin: (sorry all .. inside joke)

Im sure it would..... :lol:

If it didn't cost me so much that's where I would put it. :evil: