Walt Disney Acro

[bshow24]

Originally Posted by rvareef

I remember my first rainbow tenius

Oh hey me too......

[Johnyman]

Originally Posted by Pife

Did you buy it as Walt Disney acro from a reputable person? This is your answer. I would guess no because of your location.

No I didn't bought it like a WD, and I'm not saying that it is, but after I look to the photo above I ask if my frag isn´t it one WD.

A photo only with the RB LED

[Pife]

Originally Posted by Johnyman

No I didn't bought it like a WD, and I'm not saying that it is, but after I look to the photo above I ask if my frag isn´t it one WD.

A photo only with the RB LED

Definitively no.

[Johnyman]

Thank you Pife

[bshow24]

Originally Posted by Johnyman

Thank you Pife

Walt Disney is a rainbow acro, it has 4 colors in it (purple, pink, yellow, green). If you look at pictures online you'll see how colorful these pieces can get, which is one of the reasons I went for this piece.

[frogspawn74]

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Where is Walt lol.

Just added a very small piece. Let's see what happens in a few months.

[offdahooklikeoj]

Here is a picture of my WD frag.

[Joe Cool]

older pictures. its much bigger now.
http://i.imgur.com/0BYxqXC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ww8km7a.jpg

[jbvdhp]

Originally Posted by Joe Cool

older pictures. its much bigger now.
http://i.imgur.com/0BYxqXC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ww8km7a.jpg

Nice!!!


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[bshow24]

Originally Posted by Joe Cool

older pictures. its much bigger now.
http://i.imgur.com/0BYxqXC.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ww8km7a.jpg

Does it grow pretty fast Joe? And where do you have it placed in the tank?

[Joe Cool]

Originally Posted by bshow24

Does it grow pretty fast Joe? And where do you have it placed in the tank?

It took a while to get started but now it grows pretty fast. I have it about 400-420 par under t5's in the middle of my tank with really high flow.

[Gmerek2]

Had mine since March. The colors you see on the Internet are achieved with photographing under 100% blues using gel filters and a talented photographer. Here is mine and realistic colors. Just a typical SPS that was hyped up with crazy photographing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OQ_h4Ar6s&app=desktop it's the first SPS in the video.

[bshow24]

Originally Posted by Gmerek2

Had mine since March. The colors you see on the Internet are achieved with photographing under 100% blues using gel filters and a talented photographer. Here is mine and realistic colors. Just a typical SPS that was hyped up with crazy photographing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OQ_h4Ar6s&app=desktop it's the first SPS in the video.

I don't know about yours, but when I look at mine under 17k lighting, I see pink and purple tips with extremely bright yellow polyps (posted this picture a few days ago).

Just because it's under all blues, doesn't mean it's not actually that color. All corals look better under blues, this one just happens to look extra good.

[cprice]

I wouldnt say that the "hype" is all based on someones photography skills and not the actual coral itslef.

I have seen many examples of WD that are brilliant in person that sometimes even looked more vibrant than the "photoshopped" pics we see online. I personally think that orange passion is a more desirable acro and my little frag has tons of orange-red polys with blue/green/yellow all over the base. It looks just as good as any example you see online.

[shred5]

Originally Posted by Gmerek2

Had mine since March. The colors you see on the Internet are achieved with photographing under 100% blues using gel filters and a talented photographer. Here is mine and realistic colors. Just a typical SPS that was hyped up with crazy photographing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57OQ_h4Ar6s&app=desktop it's the first SPS in the video.

Agreed:

I think some use these filters.:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...orrection.html

This allows you to turn up the blue so corals fluoresce much more but adds bask in the reds so it does not looks so blue. They also increase contrast.

There is a whole line of these types of underwater filters.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Un...0/N/4183191446

Technically by doing this they can claim it is the actual colors and it is not photo-shopped.

I have seen photos of corals done this way and wow.

[Gmerek2]

Frag #1 is worth $200 frag #2 it will be hard to get $25. To me that is hype.

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[bshow24]

Originally Posted by Gmerek2

Frag #1 is worth $200 frag #2 it will be hard to get $25. To me that is hype.

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I'm not saying people aren't able to photoshop or adjust images based on contrast or exposure, I'm talking about what I see with my own eyes when I look at the coral. I have a camera and I can take pictures but I don't really care what they look like there, my goal is to be able to see a beautiful coral in my tank. The WD Acro, as far as I can see, will look exactly like the images I have seen, and since by the time I get home from work my lights are closer to 20k, I'm perfectly content with it.

[Piper27]

Everyone is so used to making this coral like the stupid crazy filtered and led blasted pictures no one is trying anything different. Has anyone acclimated this to high par under halides yet? Like some 400w 12k or something? I bet it would show some actual real bold and beautiful colors. Judging from the colors in actual real untouched daylight photos this coral has good potential to get amazing pinks, greens, yellows and purples.

I do not understand when it became ok to represent coral frags as true colors when taken under all blue leds with crazy filters and heavy Photoshop retouching. Let alone just one of these three would turn me from buying a coral in a heartbeat! Imagine if this was done on all websites and threads with all corals for sale, there would be no way to tell exactly what your buying.

[Piper27]

Gmerek2 I think your picture looks better than the sellers and it's definatly worth more than 25 bucks I would love to try and put that thing in my 3' cube under my two 400w se, t5s and 60 led setup.

[bshow24]

It's funny how this thread started requesting positioning of this coral and has turned to this...I honestly don't care what sellers do to photoshop items and using filters, etc. If the coral looks good in my tank and I get to see all the colors, I'm happy. And yes, it looks as good as advertised.

Now, thanks to answers from some helpful posts, I was able to find a great spot for this coral and it seems happy and has a crazy amount of polyp extension. Can't wait to see it grow and color up!

[Mr V]

Here mine high under 2 radion G3 pro (70%) and 4 t5s. (45gallons tank)



I just got mine last week.

[tigersmith]

Here's one I'm bakin in the oven at the moment. Picture taken under Radion Pro G3 100%UV/RoyalBlue/Blue. What will it turn out to be? All color possibilites are in place. Pink coralittes starting to show. Time will only tell. It's a nice large colony.

[Piper27]

Originally Posted by bshow24

It's funny how this thread started requesting positioning of this coral and has turned to this...I honestly don't care what sellers do to photoshop items and using filters, etc. If the coral looks good in my tank and I get to see all the colors, I'm happy. And yes, it looks as good as advertised.

Now, thanks to answers from some helpful posts, I was able to find a great spot for this coral and it seems happy and has a crazy amount of polyp extension. Can't wait to see it grow and color up!

My point is you may know this coral looks "exactly" like the original pictures that were altered. But now that one of the most popular corals has been represented this way there will be a flood of hobbiest to vendors to wholesalers using this method of picturing coral. How will you know what new pieces look like in your tank? To me it's not worth paying any money to buy a coral that could look compleetly different in my tank. And a lot of people who don't know how to tell the difference between good Photoshop and misleading Photoshop will be mislead and overpay for average coral.
Not trying to go off topic, but I had to say it. Also I wanted to find out who has theirs growing in very high light? Since the topic was positioning, I did try to keep on track.

[jbvdhp]

Originally Posted by Piper27

My point is you may know this coral looks "exactly" like the original pictures that were altered. But now that one of the most popular corals has been represented this way there will be a flood of hobbiest to vendors to wholesalers using this method of picturing coral. How will you know what new pieces look like in your tank? To me it's not worth paying any money to buy a coral that could look compleetly different in my tank. And a lot of people who don't know how to tell the difference between good Photoshop and misleading Photoshop will be mislead and overpay for average coral.

Not trying to go off topic, but I had to say it. Also I wanted to find out who has theirs growing in very high light? Since the topic was positioning, I did try to keep on track.

The farmers and suppliers are already over saturating their photos:



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[bshow24]

Originally Posted by Piper27

My point is you may know this coral looks "exactly" like the original pictures that were altered. But now that one of the most popular corals has been represented this way there will be a flood of hobbiest to vendors to wholesalers using this method of picturing coral. How will you know what new pieces look like in your tank? To me it's not worth paying any money to buy a coral that could look compleetly different in my tank. And a lot of people who don't know how to tell the difference between good Photoshop and misleading Photoshop will be mislead and overpay for average coral.
Not trying to go off topic, but I had to say it. Also I wanted to find out who has theirs growing in very high light? Since the topic was positioning, I did try to keep on track.

This isn't the first and won't be the last coral that's been photoshopped to look better by vendors but that's also why we have communities like this to show what things look like, plus we have vendors and sellers who communicate on RC as well (where I got it from) who are willing to go the extra yard to provide more pictures to see what it will look like. I knew what I was getting, and I was ok with that. And I'm happy because it looks amazing.