If you spend anytime on reef aquarium social media these days, especially facebook and instagram you might be shocked by how colorful some people’s corals tanks and corals are. Hopefully by now most of you are aware that these photos are not a faithful representation of what these corals ‘really’ look like in person.
Just like swimsuit and fashion models, there’s colorific lighting for ‘makeup’, flattering settings in camera, yellow or orange filters to block the flood of sapphire spectrum, then a varying degree of photo editing done either manually, or automatically based on the camera or phone. When you see enough of these pictures and what amounts basically to aquarium glamor shots, you might be wondering whyyourtank doesn’t look like that?
The obvious answer is that the VAST MAJORITY of what you’re seeing at doesn’t appear that way if you were observing it in real life either, but itispossible to get mega colorful corals without any substantial camera, lighting, or editing tricks. We’ve been tweaking our coral care recipe over the last year and think we might have finally ‘arrived’ at a formula that makes almost all of our corals shine and pop, and to be honest most of them look even better under white light than they do under blues.
We’ll revisit what it is that has lit up these corals like photoshop in real life in some future videos and articles but for now we just had to show you what’s poppin’ in coral flat #2 at the Reef Builders Studio. Between the psychedelic scolies, uber orange chalices, multicoloreuphyllias, saturatedcyphastreasand others, there’s a living rainbow of color in this bare bones coral aquarium.
当然，特别是在某些殖民地中，某些更微妙的SP颜色被静音，息肉和珊瑚岩的颜色肯定会在蓝光下更加出现。但是，总的来说，我们很高兴看到如此繁荣的珊瑚社区几乎代表了所有主要的珊瑚群体，这是一个在单个普通水族馆内实现的最艰难目标之一。
