Yellow Lobo - Is this Dye ?

[lee]

Just got a yellow Lobo from Iwarna this evening.

Never seen this colour before.

Is this Dye or true yellow colour ?

Yellow taken with Flash

[lee]

Yellow Lobo w/o flashlight

[ryz]

dyed. definitely

[junyong84]

never seen such a colour b4... maybe orange would be a safer bet

[shoelevy]

once, an lfs owner told me that any colour that is yellow in a coral is dyed.

so i'm placing my bets on dyed

[DeepBlue]

check your skimmate...if you start to get yellowish skimmate...you should know....

[lee]

check your skimmate...if you start to get yellowish skimmate...you should know....

Sure, will checkout for Yellow skimmage .

[Achilles Tang]

Dyed.

[andysho]

wow it looks nice sia

hope the colour will stay

[lee]

I'm begining to feel it is dyed because :-

- in the same tub there are also Yellow plates

- price is typical

- no one seem to be interested

- can't see any in the display tanks

[nivlac]

what the $)(#@@! very irresponsible of this lfs to sell dyed corals.

[lee]

what the $)(#@@! very irresponsible of this lfs to sell dyed corals.

Guess this works 2 ways.

We must be educated ourselves and not go for anything out of the 'normal' unless

of course we 'know' it is not normal.

If there is demand for 'exotic' stuff there will always be supply be it this or any LFS. No one is to be blame, only ourself.

[LaW]

it looks good anyway.

hope the colour stays on

regards,

LaW

[Iwarna]

Guess this works 2 ways.

We must be educated ourselves and not go for anything out of the 'normal' unless

of course we 'know' it is not normal.

If there is demand for 'exotic' stuff there will always be supply be it this or any LFS. No one is to be blame, only ourself.

Hi Lee,

I was concerned about the colour of the coral so I checked with my supplier last night. He said he will get back to me as he say he bought it in the same colour. Either his divers dye this lobo or he acting blur.

If you are uncertain and feel uneasy keeping the corals, no obligation. Just send back to me and I will give you a full refund - I sold to you @ $30.00.

I am totally against coral dye so if it's really dye and colour not going to stay, I will too not pay my supplier!

[prec]

wow. i like this..

[lee]

Hi Lee,

I was concerned about the colour of the coral so I checked with my supplier last night. He said he will get back to me as he say he bought it in the same colour. Either his divers dye this lobo or he acting blur.

If you are uncertain and feel uneasy keeping the corals, no obligation. Just send back to me and I will give you a full refund - I sold to you @ $30.00.

I am totally against coral dye so if it's really dye and colour not going to stay, I will too not pay my supplier!

Thanks for the concern.

No problem. Should have guessed for that color & price.

Will keep a close monitoring for any color change.

The 'yellow' color just seem so real. It even flourescene under actinic.

If it is really 'dye' those guys must have done a pretty good job.

Anyone know how coral dying is done and if the dye residue is bad for the water. Only come across in Freshwater fish such as those multicolor parrot fish, glass fish, abino cory,etc.

[lee]

All of you are right.

95% my Yellow is dyed.

Progress on the 4th days - with flashlight

[lee]

Progress after 4 days

With out Flash - colour paler

[roadster]

My observation, in general, is that if the colour of a coral is too evenly coloured throughout, I would suspect it high chance to be dyed. That was my impression when I saw the first pic in this thread.

Reason being in the course of typical growth, the newer parts will normally be of different colour from the more mature parts.

Anyone can comment and share their views how to spot dyed corals so that we can be more aware?

[Marineman]

Dyed coral actually suffers and will take time to revert into it's original colour if you are luck otherwise it will slowly waste away after a few months.

The LFS should know that this is coral is dyed as they have been in this trade long enough, anyway they have acted responsibly to take it back for a full refund.

Other commonly dyed corals are goniopora/flowerpot, sinularia/finger corals and brains to name a few. Common dye colours are bright yellow and pink.

Most LFS are here to make a profit and if it sells they will bring them in, whether it's fishes or corals, they don't pay much attention to whether it is hardy or dyed, fast in fast out policy as the mortality is high for this trade so are the risks.

[ozy]

Actually, one good way, I realised, to identify whether the coral is dyed is to look at the bones. If the bones are also yellow tinted, then most likely the coral is dyed. But recently, there are also some corals that only have their flesh dyed. Seems that the exporters took more care in some cases to dye them.