Quick update .....
Corals on both sides are growing, with no apparent differences yet. My efforts to pick up a few specific corals at a recent frag show were met with frustration and obfuscation. I don't actually think most vendors have a clue as to the accurate IDs on their frags. For example, I was looking for two pearlberry frags, yet none of them so named looked anything like perlberry. Sigh!
I've also been thinking about coral coloration and the differences between actual color and color rendition. I can move a particular frag from the MH side to the LED side and it immediately looks different. Clearly it's not changed its color, it's just rendering differently. Makes me wonder how many of the claims of 'I changed lights and the colors came back' are about rendition and not actual color changes.
Corals on both sides are growing, with no apparent differences yet. My efforts to pick up a few specific corals at a recent frag show were met with frustration and obfuscation. I don't actually think most vendors have a clue as to the accurate IDs on their frags. For example, I was looking for two pearlberry frags, yet none of them so named looked anything like perlberry. Sigh!
I've also been thinking about coral coloration and the differences between actual color and color rendition. I can move a particular frag from the MH side to the LED side and it immediately looks different. Clearly it's not changed its color, it's just rendering differently. Makes me wonder how many of the claims of 'I changed lights and the colors came back' are about rendition and not actual color changes.