And more photos of something you've all seen before...

Quinn · #1 03-03-2004, 04:27 AM

Even with the camera set to "fluorescent", I still had to tweak these in Photoshop.

But this colour is spot on. Jon is kicking himself hard now I think, "here, you can have this acro, it hasn't done anything in my tank and it's just brown". Wish I had progress shots of both of these, particularly the larger one... Tell me when you get bored of looking at these ones, because I could take pics of them forever.

eposer · #2 03-03-2004, 04:46 AM

Mmmmmmmmm...

Nice pics

smokinreefer · #3 03-03-2004, 04:51 AM

nice score quinn!
they look awesome!

Canadian Man · #4 03-03-2004, 05:22 AM

That's funny Quinn.

That's A piece I got from Tony,
You should bring me back a piece and see what it does in my tank.

AJ_77 · #5 03-03-2004, 05:27 AM

HOW much Photoshop?? Even the clownfish is purple!

EmilyB · #6 03-03-2004, 05:30 AM

Now if you could just squeeze those things together tightly you'd have some really cool zoos...

Quinn · #7 03-03-2004, 05:56 AM

Jon, the top one is the one I am bringing you the piece of. Apparently the second one is also from Tony. I am about to ask E. Bornemann if it is likely to have this much of a difference between two frags from the same mother colony.

Not too much Alan, but you're right, it seems to have worn off on the clown. But I swear, the corals really look this good, I'm not just doing this to trick you all!

Delphinus · #8 03-03-2004, 05:23 PM

This piece seems to be fairly reactive (more so than other acros) in my experience.

Under 10k's it's really nice. Under 6500k's (my current setup) it's more "so-so" and people don't seem to be all that impressed by it (whereas people were like "Holy crap WOW" when I had it under 10k's).

I can only guess what it'd look like under 20k's. When I sent some pieces to Jayson he told me that the tips were brillitantly purple, but more green came out underneath the tips. Sounds keen. I will eventually be switching over to more 10k's/20k's but alas, only "in due course."

Quinn · #9 03-03-2004, 05:26 PM

I asked Bornemann and so far the only response is from some other wiseguy who said "read the FAQs". I want Bornemann to express his opinion on whether the two corals are from the same mother colony (which they obviously very likely are) and why the discrepancy. We'll see what he says.

What would be interesting is if both you (Tony) and I brought Jon a piece on the same day. I wonder what would happen to the coloration then. Tony can you get an overhead shot of yours? Which of my two is it more similar to?

Delphinus · #10 03-03-2004, 05:43 PM

I'll try to get some shots in later. Unfortunately, it has elements of both your pictures and elements of neither. The tips are starting to be obviously purple, but the lower branches is like chocolate kind of brown. The pieces I put in my 72g which has 10000K turned a REALLY nice purple, unfortunately though they are being smothered to death by about a zillion mushrooms. I honestly ought to get what's left of them out of harms way. How about a piece of those, plus a piece of the big colony (since again two divergent paths) and we can really have some fun with this?