[Myka]

In all fairness, I've received SPS frags from all over the country and the shape of a WYSIWYG piece doesn't change obviously, but the color can definitely change during shipping. Things like colored corallites or tips can wash out. I've had many pieces show up almost completely browned out (or dead white lol) in the same shipment as pieces that look like nothing ever happened - even shipments which contained doubles of the same piece! It's the nature of the SPS game.

The picture of that Monti has absolutely been adjusted - it wasn't just cropped. I usually have to do some adjusting to my own pics to try to get the color true to life, but my pictures are NEVER as good as the corals appear in person. Drives me bonkers.