Is this a dyed coral????

[KorbinDallas]

I bought this coral under the assumption that it was NOT dyed, but now I'm having second thoughts. I'm having trouble finding information on any coral like this. I want to call it a finger leather, but it looks a bit like a colt. Except that it's blue.

 

[Nishant3789]

sorry to say but sure looks like it imo
nishant

 

[coralsandbar]

That looks like a Bali Colt to me (usually very dark almost purple compared to Fiji Colts).

Thx.

Rob

 

[KorbinDallas]

Wow, I'm amazed that someone finally responded again. That coral has since withered and died. No blue came from it after death. And I have seen a couple others like it. No idea why it died either. Are they particularly hard to take care of?

 

[coralsandbar]

As far as I know, it still looks like a bali colt to me. Was it actually blue or just a dark brown almost purple color?

I imagine if it was indeed blue that It may have been dyed. It's hard to tell from your picture.

Did you happen to take other pictures of it? (when you had it).

Thank you,

Rob

 

[KorbinDallas]

I have other pics. It will take a miracle for me to get around to posting them. The coral was a purple/blue when fully expanded. The color is comparable to the common blue mushrooms. Under the metal halide in the store, it had kind of the same metallic look as the mushrooms too. When fully contracted, it is actually a light, grey/blue. The stalk was grey.

 

[coralsandbar]

Very interesting.... Sometimes there are some unique and interesting corals out there. I have seen some bali colts that are so dark they look purple.

It kind of throws you off a little from the average colt, etc.

You never know....you might have come across a new coral for all we know.

I came across 2 new corals about 3 years ago that I have never seen anywhere else or i've ever seen since then. (They were out of Phillipines, I guess the phillipines has recently started exporting coral, etc.). One was a leather that formed a shelf with yellow polyps all over it, the other were pink neptheas, and lemnalia.

The lemnalia's seem to be more common now.


I've heard of some wholesalers selling dyed corals. They usually tell the vendors and retail stores if they are dyed.

I've always stayed away from dyed corals. They never seem to live very long, maybe a few months up to 6.

I think what you might have had was a Bali colt coral. And for some reason or another something got to him or he didn't like something thus resulting in death.

Rob

 

[KorbinDallas]

Yeah, that really sucks. I bought it because I had never seen anything like it. Maybe there is a reason there are so few of these for sale. It would have been cool to be able to propagate it out of my aquarium. Now I feel sorta bad for killing it.

My LFS sometimes has dyed corals in stock. I really really really don't see the point in that. You spend all this money on the setup, lights, additives, etc... so you can grow REAL corals, why would you want to buy one that looks fake? Might as well save your money put some plastic corals in a goldfish bowl. At least they'll last longer.

 

[coralsandbar]

Very true indeed....


I have heard some places (wholesalers) have experimented in dying corals, so I guess it wouldn't surprise me that it could have been a dyed coral.


As a matter of fact I was thinking I had remembered hearing that colt corals were some of the new corals being dyed.


I had heard some stories a long time ago that wholesalers used to dye anemones bright yellow and sell them. I guess they got enough complaints that they stopped doing it.

Believe it or not there are some nice looking plastic corals that Walt Smith has come out with. I guess he actually takes molds of the corals. They look pretty impressive. I can't wait to get the brochure to see more details.

Nothing however, is quite like the real thing though.

Rob

 

[SaveOurReefs]

Maybe from fiji one that requires mh or high vhos ?


what kind of lights do you use ?

 

[KorbinDallas]

Maybe from fiji one that requires mh or high vhos ?


what kind of lights do you use ?

D'OH! Thats something you could have told me 6 months ago!

32 watt power compact colts are low-light. right?

 

[KorbinDallas]

http://www.premiumaquatics.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv
I just ran across this.

Do you see what I see? Another online retailer just lost my business.

 

[coralsandbar]

Hi Korbin,


I can vouch for Jason from Premium aquatics on that coral. He tells everybody that it is a dyed coral and that it will turn green after 4-6 months.

So he's not falsely advertising his corals as such. Jason is a great guy!

Rob

 

[gooch]

A customer just brought in his corals for me to hold last night when his pump went out on him. He brought in a yellow sebae anemone that I think is dyed. I do not know where he got it from. I have never seen one so bright yellow. I hope I am wrong.

I don't think premium aquatics would purposly order a dyed coral. When a company orders wholsale they don't get to cherry pick what they get. They all to often get what is sent. I have had this happen to us. Not with dyed corals but with coral with low survival rate. It is hard to expect them not to try and sell the coral. It's the company that orders corals like gonipora and dyed corals knowing they have poor long term survival rates you should avoid. These stores offer them up for sale on a regular basis.


We have another store in town that orders these thing all the time. They sell fast and die just as fast. Yet the stores keep ordering them. The nice thing is that people are learning. And avoiding them. They still get the newbies every time. I tell people that want the corals with low survivability exactly what I think will happen to it. I also if I do sell them for just over cost. Thankfully this doesn't happen to us too often.

gooch

 

[jasonfrey]

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted everyone to know we do not carry dyed corals. The Cherry Pick picture on our website is a dyed coral that i got 2 years ago without knowing. Once i found out i told everyone that we sold to that it would turn green in 6 months.

I just found the picture and thought it would look cool on the front page. I'll remove it and put something else on there instead.

thanks

jason
premium aquatics

 

[coralsandbar]

Right on, Jason.


Take care,

Rob