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10-12-2014, 03:20 AM
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Reef Raft have an amazing ability to colour up corals in their systems. For most mortals it's fought to achieve the same levels of colour in their systems. I don't hate on RR for their spa and colours, that's why I paid big bucks for some of the pieces. Will I do it again, time will tell. I have to see how these look in 6 months or so. If they don't colour up to at least 80% of what the pictures look like, I won't buy anymore RR stuff.
What I'm trying to get across is don't hate someone for buying RR stuff, it's their right and their money  
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10-12-2014, 03:45 AM
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All the other pieces came from Frag Box and for the no name RR pieces I have not been disappointed in how they have turned out based on what I paid for them.
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10-12-2014, 04:06 AM
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Ive had the pleasure of getting all giddy from ordering rr corals multiple times. My rr corals are the same as everyone else. I always understood that these wild pieces they bring in take time to there true captivity colors and I've actually emailed Jason on several occasions to ask for updated pics, and like the rest of us his corals are mostly the same subpar colors.
I've honestly gotten nicer maricultured corals at a quarter the cost
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10-12-2014, 04:22 AM
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10-12-2014, 10:48 AM
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If y'all are waiting for them to get to the same colors as the marketing pictures, you're going to be waiting a long time.
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10-12-2014, 12:07 PM
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As the Reef Raft SPS pieces came on the market I was able to drive over and see many of the actual mother colonies in person. Around the time Reef Raft USA was started, the pipeline going through Reef Raft Canada to Reef Raft USA brought some of the most amazing SPS I have ever seen.
This was the Red Diablo photo circulating at that time……..  These are my frags, from the original mother colony shown in the above picture, and set them up in my SPS system. Fingers crossed I was going to be able to keep the insane colour…..  Here is what the colony and frags look like today…    RR Wolverine Original colony……  My frag from that original colony….  And what it looks like today……..   RR Pink Floyd Original Colony  My frag from the original colony  What it looks like today….  
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10-12-2014, 05:51 PM
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Bill, thanks for sharing. Comparing your pics to those from RR I can see that they are not quite the same. If RR wishes to market their products with saturated colours the least they can do is to provide more information or have a disclaimer to some extent. It would also be nice to see vendors using their own pics of the same coral rather than to use provided pics from RR. when I am buying a Ferrari I expect it to be the Ferrari like the picture I was sold on. If it looks anything else it is not morally correct advertising. For example... From your website at the time when I made my purchase in the group order in April and May of this year, you used only the pink Floyd pic provided by RR. To be honest, I was not impressed when I received it. It was dull brown and grey looking. When local reefers came by to see the new pieces, many and incl myself thought the pink Floyd was the wolverine. Anyways, I was confident that it would color up and five mths later it is still colouring up and there has been vast improvement from what it looked like five mths ago. What I am trying to say is if I had the chance to see the real pic of it I may not have made the purchase. From the group order I spent close to $400 myself so I do have some expectations, especially when a $10 or $20 dollar frag looks way better.
I have heard through the grapevine and understand how RR gets its colours but to some degree the pics may have some half truths to it. I did an experiment over the last three months to see if it works. I increased my phosphate level from 0'to .03-.04 range and I saw more colours but no where close to that of the pics. I have thought of increasing the phosphate level ( increasing dosage of amino acids) but then I decided not to as I do not want other corals to suffer for the sake of a couple. I also want to say that the no name RR frags I got from fragbox arrived as they are in the pics taken by March and his group. I paid anywhere between 35-99 dollars for the pieces and I was quite pleased with the purchase. For the Diablo I purchased from fragbox a yr ago, it does not have the colors anywhere close to that in the RR pic. It is still a very nice piece even though it does not have that deep red colouring. From my overall experience, i would rather buy maricultured pieces from Non RR origination as they look no different than the RR pieces, have way better coloration and fraction of RR prices. I'm sure that RR gets their selection from the same source so why pay $400 for a 1/2 - 3/4 inch frag when I could get 4-6 nice mini colonies. Anyways, this is just my experience and opinion and is not to stop people from buying RR corals.
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