Super Bright Red Discomas? Where do you get them?

[FishAreFriends2]

I've seen some pictures around here and I've seen some crazy looking red discomas that I've never seen at stores. So where do you guys get them and how much do they cost?

 

[airinhere]

Warning: Colors may appear brighter than real life.

They are everywhere. All you need is a decent camera and photoshop.
(Do not believe half the color combos you see pictures of).

Look for a bluish tint to otherwise white areas as a good indicator that the coral is NOT being displlayed realistically.

This is a huge issue and everyone from the novice photographer to the specialty high end coral vendors are guilty of doing this.

 

[rjsilvers]

Super bright red discomas? That's so last year...

If you want, I'll sell you some ULTRA RARE blue xenia real cheap.... Lets say... $150?

.....

 

[dan10342]

at my LFS there were legit FLAME RED mushrooms. they were 20 bucks per mushroom.

 

[gskidmor]

rjsilvers, has that been photoshopped? if not, that is absolutely awesome!

 

[only_mnh]

That is very interesting. Where is that from?

 

[ziggy222]

i bought them 9 on a tonga branch for $45.they were as red as it gets.there was a bunch around last yr everywhere.their still around from time to time at most of my lfs.i've seen them go for $20 a mushroom.

 

[ziggy222]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7934565@N02/490325362/

 

[ziggy222]

my red mushrooms.not photo shopped or altered in any way.thats how they look.i bought my wife a rock with 9 and she gave me one.it moved across the rock leaving babies behind and this is what i have now after about 5 months.

 

[ziggy222]

oh i forgot to tell you.i see them on roesmarine.com once in awhile.i think their located in ohio

 

[J. Montgomery]

I have a big rock with over 3 dozen red mushrooms on it for sale. Here is what they look like with the daylights on:

They really glow under actinic (same mushrooms on a different rock)

PM me if you're interested.

 

[storrisch]

I had a large group of them for awhile but they were taking up too much room.

 

[curekar]

Light changes things a lot also.

What airinhere was alluding to in blue backgrounds is that it gives you an indication of how much actinic light is being supplied to the mushrooms. I dissagree with airinhere that they are photoshopped if the backgroud is blue/purpleish (that is not always the case - definitely is sometimes). I keep mine under T5's and have had my tank very blue, my shrooms glowed, both the reds and greens. I have the same shrooms that J. Montgomery has above (he gave some to me) his daylights are MH, and they look sortof orangy red as seen above, but under heavy actinic T5's they glow a lot more.

So the lights that you keep them under can make them look very different from where you got them from.

I got a purple shroom from an LFS that is brigt blue under heavy actinics.

Craig

 

[ziggy222]

it effects blue alot blues can be bright purple to bright blue depending on many factors.but my reds are red even if i take them out of the water.thats the real test.