rogerwilco357
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I read somewhere where they would color corals using an ink?
can acros be colored by easter egg paint
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nerdslogic
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If so I would be injecting zoa's right now to make my own "LE"
Dustin1300
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Wow, I'd think acro would die if that happened. Please post more info if you've really seen this
twiggyb
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I know some rbta's and gbta's get dyed so they're very bright when they come in the store, but it fades with time, and sometimes the host doesn't do so well with being dyed. I don't know if you could do it with acros, softie and nems because they take in the water to fill their tissue up so unless if you're literally dying the skin on the outside I don't think it'll work and if you do that, you'll most likely kill the acro by covering up the zooanthelle. JMO, I don't know for sure.
GhostCon1
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James404
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I have never seen an acro dyed that is alive, I have seen skeletons of them dyed for fish only tanks etc... On the other hand I have seen soft corals that have been dyed many times, usually they will lose their color within a month or two and my not be as hardy as they normally would.
rogerwilco357
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yeah i think it was dead acros dipped in easter egg type of paint and used for color, just wondered if there was a way to do that and them still live and if that would explain the tri colored acro's that seem to brown out and come back green..
XSiVE
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easter egg paint is vinegar water and dye, the point of the vinegar is to etch the egg shell so the dye sticks.
If you got the pH to the acidic point of being able to etch the skeleton of a coral like you do for the eggshell you'd surely kill off any live tissue in a hurry, the only way it could be possible is if you used one of those dye tabs in some saltwater of the right parameters and you'd have to wait quite awhile for the tissue to absorb the color.
If you got the pH to the acidic point of being able to etch the skeleton of a coral like you do for the eggshell you'd surely kill off any live tissue in a hurry, the only way it could be possible is if you used one of those dye tabs in some saltwater of the right parameters and you'd have to wait quite awhile for the tissue to absorb the color.
dont know about easter egg paint but it was certainly not an unheard practice for shady retailers to dye corals to attractive or unatural colors and sell them as one of a kinds. no one really knew the long term effects of doing it and the color/dye would obviously eventually fade away. that practice was before acro's became such a common keep so I dont know if this was done to sps but it was done to softies and LPS. anyhow those days are long gone. they werent importing crazy colored aussie LPS, chalice and scully's, not to mention the range of sps commonly available. there's no need and people are smarter and know there is something up if you try to sell them a lavender toadstool leather for $300.
MammothReefer
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No point anymore, you can just photoshop them before you post the photos online nobody will know 
