Some Cherry Corals photo's

[jorjef]

No underlieing intention just a honest newbie question that is somewhat related and I always wondered...I realize most corals are harvested from the ocean but I have seen tons as everyone else has these awesome colored brains, donuts, zoas etc. corals. Is this how they look in the ocean? I realized there are aqua cultured out there but never knew if that meant man made colored or just 2nd 3rd generation etc. Now that you have wiped away the tears of laughter I look forward to the answer...

[lastlight]

Yeah good point lol. The ocean has far fewer LEDs and 20k halides than our tanks. I don't think they'd look the same. Not that many try and simulate the sun's color temp when setting up a reef. I guess it started with trying to mimic the coloration at a deeper depth and then we tried drawing every colour out.

[jorjef]

Not neccesarilly the ones in this post but the brains and scolys in the market today are so psychedelic it's hard to believe they're natural and not man made color. Either way I would much rather have the psychedlic myself...

[Lance]

Originally Posted by lastlight

Yeah good point lol. The ocean has far fewer LEDs and 20k halides than our tanks. I don't think they'd look the same. Not that many try and simulate the sun's color temp when setting up a reef. I guess it started with trying to mimic the coloration at a deeper depth and then we tried drawing every colour out.

Yup, gotta agree with you there Brett. If you turn the actinics off and had only 5000K lighting you would be closer to what the ocean's corals look like: much more drab looking. Some deeper water corals floresce quite well though under the bluer light.