colony pack
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pecan2phat
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Gangous,
My blueberry shortcake is inbetween grey and hawkin's blue after 3 months, slow growth and so far just average to me. I hope it turns out like yours.
The Tyree blue lightning also looks nada like website, it is grey with whitish polyps :headwalls:
My 3rd replacement shipment of two $80 millis went to an established buddy reefer cause I was not going to pay them $50 to ship replacements and they came in with these results: bone white the next day on one and RTN a week later on the second so my ordering days are over with them unfortunately.
Thanx Btl.... hopefully they will be colonies soon. All my WT frags are lookin good. Gonna do a second order with tierra and poison ivy soon.
Have a bunch of really nice colonies left. started trimming back the display so i'm loaded with frags too. Will be around this weekend for anyone intrested. One piece i would love to move is a huge colony of Tyree Flower petal. It's the size of a cantelope. I am gonna bring it to PW for trade if it doesn't go.l $50 will take it. Shoot me a pm if you have questions. mike
Have a bunch of really nice colonies left. started trimming back the display so i'm loaded with frags too. Will be around this weekend for anyone intrested. One piece i would love to move is a huge colony of Tyree Flower petal. It's the size of a cantelope. I am gonna bring it to PW for trade if it doesn't go.l $50 will take it. Shoot me a pm if you have questions. mike
diverrad
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So after your good luck with them Mike i decited to place an order with them just to see if thery got any better. I ordered 7 acros all in the $100 range and used the 30% off discount code so i spent around 500. got the frags a few hours ago and placed them in my tank after aclimation and dipping. Now before i dipped them i floated them in my tank with full lights on to look at them and guess what? SAME STORY as before NOTHING like the vibrant pics they posted these guys are photoshop EXPERTS!!! what i for was NOTHING like their photos. I was really looking forward the the double doosie princess acro and burple and yellow horrida what i got was 3 plae frags that could be anything except what was in their picture... never again they really are overpriced scam artists.
diverrad
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So Mike as you know i own a video production company and because of that i have well over 100k in video and photo edititing equipment and software I also am very lucky to have a true digital forensics expert that works for me and moonlights for the fbi and other law enforcemnt agencies as a digital forensics expert, she is rather bored today so i am having her go through some of the photos on WT web site to see if and how they where digitally manipulated. I will also take photos of what they sold me and what i got later today
diverrad
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Ok so A few notes first:
The good points -- all the frags i got are large, most multibranching and those that are not are about 2" tall, i'm very happy about that, all the frags opened up their polyps right away and all where alive will they remain tha way i can only hope.
My problem is the color so here are a few shots of WT pictures and what i actually got
All of my pics where take under T5 2 ati aquablue special 2 ati blue plus 1 kz coral light 1 kz fiji purple and the camera was white balanced to the lighting and visually is a true representation of what is in the tank
you be the judge
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The good points -- all the frags i got are large, most multibranching and those that are not are about 2" tall, i'm very happy about that, all the frags opened up their polyps right away and all where alive will they remain tha way i can only hope.
My problem is the color so here are a few shots of WT pictures and what i actually got
All of my pics where take under T5 2 ati aquablue special 2 ati blue plus 1 kz coral light 1 kz fiji purple and the camera was white balanced to the lighting and visually is a true representation of what is in the tank
you be the judge
what they sold
what i got
what they sold
what i got
what they sold
what i got
Jcohen9999
Overkill Reefer
Heck...they are Photoshop Ninjas!
Maybe their photographer worked at Disney in a prior life.
Maybe their photographer worked at Disney in a prior life.
Jcohen9999
Overkill Reefer
you're not going to share their secrets?
diverrad
Active member
here is the exact email i edited out the name of the program because it's propriatary software and the logs i got where massive amounts of numbers lol
"Without taking the time for a more detailed analysis, I ran the images through a basic program called ******* and all three images on scan encounted markers of YCC Clipped that showed color and/or brightness was outside a normal range.
example:
*** NOTE: YCC Clipped. MCU=( 15, 2) YCC=( 257, 131, 125) Y Overflow @ Offset 0x0003B72E.1
YCC clipping in DC - Each MCU adds or subtracts from the DC (average) value in the previous MCU. These should all stay within an 8-bit range, but corruption in the DC coefficient may cause this value to wander out of range. This type of error will cause sudden large-scale changes in color or brightness in your image. As this type of error generally won't recover, ****** will only report the first 10 of these in the log file.
Logs of the scans attached"
in other words doctored.
"Without taking the time for a more detailed analysis, I ran the images through a basic program called ******* and all three images on scan encounted markers of YCC Clipped that showed color and/or brightness was outside a normal range.
example:
*** NOTE: YCC Clipped. MCU=( 15, 2) YCC=( 257, 131, 125) Y Overflow @ Offset 0x0003B72E.1
YCC clipping in DC - Each MCU adds or subtracts from the DC (average) value in the previous MCU. These should all stay within an 8-bit range, but corruption in the DC coefficient may cause this value to wander out of range. This type of error will cause sudden large-scale changes in color or brightness in your image. As this type of error generally won't recover, ****** will only report the first 10 of these in the log file.
Logs of the scans attached"
in other words doctored.
Jcohen9999
Overkill Reefer
Back on topic: I stopped by Mike's place and his tank is the bomb and while was there I picked up some frags off of his beautiful colonies that have already started growing new tips.
Jeff
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