CrayolaViolence
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P.s. Not to mention, these corals aren't losing color over time. I pick them up from the store bring them home and the color they were isn't the same.
Kessil Lights and color
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oseymour
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Ha, why am I not surprised about this. The colors and settings that the stores use isn't necessarily set to grow corals, they are set to showcase them to sell and the colors to pop.
zoomonster
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Color is an age old issue especially with WYSIWYG sales. While there are certainly those vendors/persons that cheat and play with color saturation and balance there are plenty that take a honest picture under given lighting and still have a customer scream they got robbed because the coral is not as pictured. That happens all the time when people see something in a store, in person, bring it home and the color is different. It goes beyond different types, brands and settings of lights (main cause though). Corals can morph over time based on the type of lighting, high/low/ultra low nutrient and additives like amino's and other coral growth or color additives. A red planet is red and green. I have seen it locally and online where, by whatever means, they have gotten it to turn solid red and are selling under all sorts of names. One local store in Winter Park was pawning it off for $200 a frag. I see comments all the time from people that even when they get a crazy colored coral as they expect it does not maintain that color over time. That comes from differences in lighting, water, additives and general husbandry. Its also a simple fact that different corals look better under different types of lighting. I have some zoa's that are boring under daylight and don't show their stuff until the light swings more actinic. I also have some acro's that are beautiful under daylight but lose it under actinic. Then there's stuff that looks good in daylight and looks even better under actinic. That's why I ramp light spectrum so I get it all.
Anyway as far as brown goes... There are basically two reasons. Either the coral is not getting enough light or it is unhappy with water parameters. As I mentioned before under LED's it is almost a given that bushy corals will at least brown out underneath. I have some of that going on but the coral has good color elsewhere. If you put nothing else in the tank as far as coral additives add coral amino acids. I'm using Aquaforest Coral A and it has really helped my recovering SPS after KH problems to recover and color back up.
Anyway as far as brown goes... There are basically two reasons. Either the coral is not getting enough light or it is unhappy with water parameters. As I mentioned before under LED's it is almost a given that bushy corals will at least brown out underneath. I have some of that going on but the coral has good color elsewhere. If you put nothing else in the tank as far as coral additives add coral amino acids. I'm using Aquaforest Coral A and it has really helped my recovering SPS after KH problems to recover and color back up.
CrayolaViolence
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Yes, I realize that. But I'd like to know what they are using to get those colors to pop, because I can tell you, they don't have any problems with them growing either.
CrayolaViolence
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Anyway as far as brown goes... There are basically two reasons. Either the coral is not getting enough light or it is unhappy with water parameters. As I mentioned before under LED's it is almost a given that bushy corals will at least brown out underneath. I have some of that going on but the coral has good color elsewhere. If you put nothing else in the tank as far as coral additives add coral amino acids. I'm using Aquaforest Coral A and it has really helped my recovering SPS after KH problems to recover and color back up.[/QUOTE]
Again, they aren't turning brown over a course of time. They are changing brown under a different light. And this coral was bought in person, not in photos so there was no enhancing done. I've bought many corals from this store, the only ones that don't look in my tank, like I saw when I bought them, are pink and purple non-fluorescing corals. If I put them under my HOF light I get those pinks in the tank, but I have my HOF over a different tank at the moment and I really don't want to have to have an HOF AND Kessils over my tank, cause the kessils are already WAY more light than I need because my tank is shallow. I was just hoping there was a way, with the kessils to get those non-fluorescing pinks to show, but I guess there isn't.
I can say one thing though, between the extreme color limitation and crappy customer service I will NEVER recommend or buy kessil again. Yes, I think my corals are doing well under the light. They are growing like wildfire (some of them---others I'm having issues with because I can't figure out how to get them in the right place for the right amount of light due to space and have no way to measure how much light they are getting and no room to make shaded areas). I've had more growth in the two months under the kessil than I have had any other light. But I'd like to be able to see the corals that are growing rather than have the pink and purples go bland and disappear. (Like my rock of amazing pink and purple hairy mushrooms) They've practically vanished into the rock work.
Again, they aren't turning brown over a course of time. They are changing brown under a different light. And this coral was bought in person, not in photos so there was no enhancing done. I've bought many corals from this store, the only ones that don't look in my tank, like I saw when I bought them, are pink and purple non-fluorescing corals. If I put them under my HOF light I get those pinks in the tank, but I have my HOF over a different tank at the moment and I really don't want to have to have an HOF AND Kessils over my tank, cause the kessils are already WAY more light than I need because my tank is shallow. I was just hoping there was a way, with the kessils to get those non-fluorescing pinks to show, but I guess there isn't.
I can say one thing though, between the extreme color limitation and crappy customer service I will NEVER recommend or buy kessil again. Yes, I think my corals are doing well under the light. They are growing like wildfire (some of them---others I'm having issues with because I can't figure out how to get them in the right place for the right amount of light due to space and have no way to measure how much light they are getting and no room to make shaded areas). I've had more growth in the two months under the kessil than I have had any other light. But I'd like to be able to see the corals that are growing rather than have the pink and purples go bland and disappear. (Like my rock of amazing pink and purple hairy mushrooms) They've practically vanished into the rock work.
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