Is this piece for real? Photoshopped?

[BrentH]

Pic from local wholesaler amazing table and I'm sure would not keep this color in aquaria but wanted to show u guys

 

[dadummy]

look at the egg crate and the live rock below the crate, does that look natural?

 

[Rob6311]

It was probably taken under a special light, with some kind of filter on the camera

 

[tdb320reef]

It prob looks closer to this. I unsaturated it 50%. Not sure why that did it I still like it with its OG colors.

 

[Blueline12]

Yeah the baby blue egg crate is a giveaway unless they started selling baby blue egg crate recently. Haha

 

[Stolireef]

This drives me absolutely nuts. There are several online vendors (and 'really respected' ones) that do this all the time. I see this more frequently with maricultured colonies. Just show me the color that would come out under 20K Radiums (which at least many of us consider standard), tell us this, and sell your coral. I'll bet TDB nailed the actual color (which is still really nice).

 

[BrentH]

I didn't think about or notice the egg crate nice job tdb I think your right on ....all that red will most likely turn brown once it s in captivity for awhile then back to who knows I've had wild corals change colors complety especially millis do this for me

 

[Tweaked]

That's why DD has always been a welcomed site. Clearly noted as taken under radiums, and never look shopped.

 

[Big E]

I've seen some very bright tables like that in person.................more than that one.

Both in red or pink with blue tips.

The problem isn't the colors as much as that species will RTN/STN 90% of the time. You end up having to frag it up. Some frags will make it, but usually your in for months of trying to get the colors back up and as mentioned, it's a crap shoot if it will ever be as colorful as day one.

 

[markalot]

Photo shopped or not I would rather not have another brown coral in the tank, no matter how bright the brown.

 

[Bpb]

Unless someone runs blue heavy lights and has a quality camera. White eggcrate under blue lights = blue eggcrate. FWIW everybody photoshops a little. We can pretty much expect it. Well maybe not technically photoshops, but photo edits. Battle Corals will sometimes actually post a raw image, and then a processed one and a screen shot of the settings used in Adobe Lightroom to edit them. Just like putting makeup on an actor or model. Is it totally representative of what you'll recieve? Not likely, as shipping and tank transfers take a toll on a corals colors. But unless it's just a silly and obnoxious shop job, it'll usually be an indication of what it can look like under the right lighting, if healthy.