Film over display tanks at LFS

[pledosophy]

I went to a LFS today and was very surprised to see a film covering the glass on the SPS tanks. It appeared to be the orange filter that people use for photography. They had it completely covering several tanks.

Is this getting common now?

19 years in the hobby now, first time seeing it.

 

[qchau]

you must have gone to reef lounge.

 

[weelo111]

Will probably be the norm now. New social-distancing rules prevents lfs from using shared orange glasses . Really just a silly stunt though.


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[Fon]

viewing corals with orange glasses ? Wow ! That's funny

 

[Ohiostreetz]

Anything to over price a coral

 

[pledosophy]

you must have gone to reef lounge.

You guessed it.

I really wanted to buy a few of the acro's they had there, but I couldn't see them without the film, so I got some beers at Bottle Logic and drove back to Long Beach.

Long trip to come home empty handed.

 

[pledosophy]

Will probably be the norm now. New social-distancing rules prevents lfs from using shared orange glasses . Really just a silly stunt though.


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The glasses thing cracked me up the first time I saw it. I was at LAX Aquarium, right after I moved back to Long Beach. I took pictures and texted them to my friends. We laughed and laughed... then I was worried I wouldn't fit in here anymore. Glad I do.

Kinda reminds me of when they used to dye the corals in the early 2000's

 

[pledosophy]

Anything to over price a coral

I guess the silly name thing was taken.

 

[djrice69]

You must be out of the game for awhile they been doing this for awhile the glass thing started around 2018

 

[pledosophy]

You must be out of the game for awhile they been doing this for awhile the glass thing started around 2018

Never out of the game.

I was living in a different state. It hasn't caught on in Oregon yet. In Oregon they use insane amounts of UV light on specific tanks to generate different colors.

Same doctored photographs with shooting in blue and switching the white balance to yellow as they do here though.

 

[five.five-six]

I love jimmy, how is he doing?


don’t be mad, businesses have to business. It must be really hard to LFS these days.

 

[djrice69]

Never out of the game.

I was living in a different state. It hasn't caught on in Oregon yet. In Oregon they use insane amounts of UV light on specific tanks to generate different colors.

Same doctored photographs with shooting in blue and switching the white balance to yellow as they do here though.

I understand the concept of removing blue color to see fluorescent pop and to highlight color pigment better, since led are narrow band lights which means it’s selective on A much smaller range of wavelength very much like a black light. Your eyes is very dynamic to visible wavelength that are usually related to colors you see. Certain filter used will remove and add back a certain color or perceived wavelength which your eyes can see. Thus highlights the color pigment better. It’s the same way when switching white balance on a camera to warmer kelvin which is a global mask to put back color overall it is no different from adding a filter to filter out some blues and bring out the colors florences under blue.

 

[pledosophy]

I love jimmy, how is he doing?


don’t be mad, businesses have to business. It must be really hard to LFS these days.

I ain't mad. Super nice guy. I get businesses have to do their thing and I might not be their target customer.

As a customer though, I spend the $150 on a frag that I can't see the actual color.

Not mad at all though. He can do business however he likes. Dude was super nice.

 

[pledosophy]

I understand the concept of removing blue color to see fluorescent pop and to highlight color pigment better, since led are narrow band lights which means it’s selective on A much smaller range of wavelength very much like a black light. Your eyes is very dynamic to visible wavelength that are usually related to colors you see. Certain filter used will remove and add back a certain color or perceived wavelength which your eyes can see. Thus highlights the color pigment better. It’s the same way when switching white balance on a camera to warmer kelvin which is a global mask to put back color overall it is no different from adding a filter to filter out some blues and bring out the colors florences under blue.

I get all that too, but for me when I am buying a coral for my tank, I want to have an idea of what it is going to look like when I am sitting in my recliner, sipping my bourbon and admiring my tank. I don't wear coral glasses when I look at the tank. I don't have my tank wrapped in film.

So for me personally when I go to a store, and it is part of the reason I go to a store and not shop online, is at the store you can have an idea of what the color of a coral will actually look like.

My favorite LFS up in Portland used to have their SPS tanks all on the same system. But they had 5 different tanks plumbed in. Each tank had different lights. You could actually see what the coral would look like, under your lights. That was pretty cool.

I guess I am just getting old and don't understand the new fads. I think the corals look good enough without trying to use things like film, and glasses to change their appearance.

 

[joseserrano]

ive never seen someone wrap their tanks, this is new for sure, but Jimmy does, "think outside the box". Im sure some like it, but I'm on board with OP, tanks area already heavy blue when you walk into most stores.

 

[djrice69]

I understand the concept of removing blue color to see fluorescent pop and to highlight color pigment better, since led are narrow band lights which means it’s selective on A much smaller range of wavelength very much like a black light. Your eyes is very dynamic to visible wavelength that are usually related to colors you see. Certain filter used will remove and add back a certain color or perceived wavelength which your eyes can see. Thus highlights the color pigment better. It’s the same way when switching white balance on a camera to warmer kelvin which is a global mask to put back color overall it is no different from adding a filter to filter out some blues and bring out the colors florences under blue.

I get all that too, but for me when I am buying a coral for my tank, I want to have an idea of what it is going to look like when I am sitting in my recliner, sipping my bourbon and admiring my tank. I don't wear coral glasses when I look at the tank. I don't have my tank wrapped in film.

So for me personally when I go to a store, and it is part of the reason I go to a store and not shop online, is at the store you can have an idea of what the color of a coral will actually look like.

My favorite LFS up in Portland used to have their SPS tanks all on the same system. But they had 5 different tanks plumbed in. Each tank had different lights. You could actually see what the coral would look like, under your lights. That was pretty cool.

I guess I am just getting old and don't understand the new fads. I think the corals look good enough without trying to use things like film, and glasses to change their appearance.

i can’t agree with you more but a lot of the guys now buy to grow to try to resell as the market trend now is everyone is trying to be a coral hustler. I guess the film is there to show the possible potential if someone can color them up. I also would like to see a tank without the film because I do want to see what it will look like when I drop it in my tank

 

[BeanMachine]

I'm not understanding why this is necessary. You use the orange / yellow films to remove the blue light so they look more true to what you see when you take a picture. While the colors aren't true, its better than a smurf photo that you can't even tell what color the coral is in the picture.

But what is putting the film over the tanks accomplishing other than to enhance colors that are not there? Sounds fishy to me to be honest.

 

[djrice69]

I'm not understanding why this is necessary. You use the orange / yellow films to remove the blue light so they look more true to what you see when you take a picture. While the colors aren't true, its better than a smurf photo that you can't even tell what color the coral is in the picture.

But what is putting the film over the tanks accomplishing other than to enhance colors that are not there? Sounds fishy to me to be honest.

Agree it’s more for viewing and taking pictures. I think adding the filter on the tank is also a bit much but if you do at least find the right one that doesn’t over correct and add colors that aren’t really there. Example Brown turns orange