Whos got the real Pink Lemonaide?

[Rob]

Ronnie, I gotta go get my eyes checked, I thought those pics were in focus... mid 40's and Im falling apart fast!

Someday when we cross paths I may take you up on that offer, its not often I get something for free.....

 

[nicks387]

Jason, Buddie is among the 20% or less that does indeed have the true Pink Lemonade, its in his first pic posted. He also has the one going around the club as the pink lemonade in his second pic. You can see the difference in those 2 pics. Both very nice pieces but only one is the true pink lemonade. I am not trying to put you out there Jason but your pics a good example of what I am talking about.

 

[highpower9979]

The pink lemonaide I have came from richard ong wich came came from roger o. And his came from tyree himself. Ill try to get up a pic tonight

 

[nicks387]

Honestly, I think from my research it seems alot of these BRS Pink Lemonades originated from the same initial place. Its not my intention to point that place out but rather to raise a bit of awareness. I dont like buying a coral and thinking its one thing then finding its another. I dont like selling frags of the wrong item even more, Regardless of where you bought it, if you just google images Tyree pink lemonade and you will see 2 different corals, all the pics originating from BRS look different from all the pics from everyplace else??????? That should raise a few eyebrows for serious collectors. It does to me. I will still enjoy my BRS pink lemonade, I just wont sell it as a Tyree. I will leave it up to you to to decide if yours is the Tyree or not.

 

[nicks387]

That was not directed at you Sean by the way.

 

[Ronnie]

I'm going to get banned for this but here goes you all need to look close at the pictures. WB lesson the lower the temp the blue and green show more so I'll give everyone a lesson. Same coral different WB set the camera to 4050 WB 10+ tint the others were set to 7500 with a 30+ tint. Lighting has a big part in the look of a coral just because some ones Pink lemonade looks different does not mean it is not real. Richard Ong did have the real deal. Look at Buddies picture. The back ground is blue mention above. Steve Dola used T-5 for lighting more bluebulbs maybe 5 T-5 more green and so on. If you need to sleep better at night then you need to buy from Tyree and make sure he breaks it out of his tank then you know it is the Tyree pink lemonade. Like a friend told me this week ORA german blue polyp Acro I was looking at. That I've grown to colony size and gave away. Is worth more on a ORA Plug then if its not on one. Don't understand I hat does plugs and I'm sure I'm not the only one. So if you want a unnatural looking tank then fill it up with visible ora plugs it will be woth more to the collectors. I am having fun with this so please do not take this to heart. Here is my picture and if I need to chnge the color let me know I'll be happy to accommodate or if you need a photo lesson LMK

 

[nicks387]

The thing you are not listening to Ronnie is that I have seen both of these corals in the same tank and they are not the same. Pics or no pics. Second its not just color but growth type and shape I am talking about.

 

[nicks387]

Secondly you said yours was the shades of fall acro not the pink lemonade. Are you saying all the images on google of everyones pink lemonade look diferent from all the ones I am refering to because all the brs people are taking pics using the samer camera settings? I dont know what your talking about. The pl I see on here has tips like a mille and the Tyree does not. This has nothing to do with camera skills.

 

[nicks387]

Look at the tips in your pic they are single points, then look at Tyrees pics. They are not the same Ronnie. Thats all I am saying.

 

[KSC]

I have both the BRS and the real Tyree PL. They are definately not the same.

 

[nicks387]

I have both the BRS and the real Tyree PL. They are definately not the same.

Thank you.

 

[Joel A]

i agree with you Nick.. they aren't the same. Like you keep saying, it's not a shot at anyone here.. but it's that way with a lot of the real higher end SPS corals floating around the club. Some people sell the ORA chips as Tubbs Crayola, other people sell the ATL Crayola plana (the one i believe i have) as the Tubbs Crayola, and yet others still sell the real deal Tubbs Crayola as the Tubbs Crayola .

In the end, if you don't know for sure it's "Tyree" or "Tubbs" or "ORA" don't call it that when you sell the frags.. Look at greg hillers Flower Pedal Cap.. it looks identical to tyree's, but he doesn't call it the Tyree because he doesn't know for sure that's the original source.

As for me, i've started to order frags from people outside the club on RC.. i think it's good for the collectors around here.. a wider variety and it will bring some new stock into the club.

I do think there are some real pink lemonades in the club, and i do also think there are some serious impostors. I don't want to look at a pink lemonade and say whether or not i think it's legit because if you tell someone there coral isn't legit when they say it is, then it usually doesn't end so well..

If you want to know for sure that you've got the real one, go to someone that you know for sure has the real one (like previously mentioned RC seller.)

 

[nicks387]

Thanks Joel.
As long as I am not alone here and I see that other people know what I am talking about thats fine. I think that alot of people here bought this piece and grew it into a sweet colony all along thinking they had the pink lemonade and all along selling it and calling it the pink lemonade that now some people dont want to see the truth. I just wanted to show some awareness so maybe this can stop. I think everyone who has the one in question deep down knows what I mean, I have not mentioned anyones piece in particular by the way. I too know some folks here do have the real deal.

 

[pvh]

I'm sorry I'm not a SPS expert YET, but I know mine is not Tyree Pink Lemonade. However mine is Reef55 Pink Lemonade tho. I think he told me his was Tyree Pink Lemonade. So take that as it is if you like. It's still a nice SPS and I always get people asking me what it is.

Here's a picture of mine if anyone wants to compare. Note: this is under T5 lighting which is about 14K and also notice the single elongated tentacle on the polyps. If that makes a different since I noticed most millies and pink lemonade have single elongated tentacle.

 

[nicks387]

Thank you Peter, and again I am not taking aim at anyone here, I think your an asset to the club a great guy and thats a nice piece and just as you were told it was pink lemonade so was everyone else. This is just somthing I wanted to point out. Lots of people are in denial about these brs pink lemonades, and the problem will spread till someone acuses one of us as selling fake LE's. If I buy a piece, and I have thats said to be say Garf Bonsai, when I see that I think its not what I thought it is I wont sell it anymore as Garf Bonsai, or pink lemonade etc. Otherwise the problem just gets bigger and bigger.

 

[kevinpratt823]

This thread should have a sticky. The old "It looks different in different people's tanks" just doesn't cut it once you've seen the real one. A Red Planet looks "different" in different tanks, but you can still tell it's a red planet, same with most other corals.
"I got it from so and so and he told me it was the Tyree."
To quote an anonymous well respected reefer:"That's what they all say."::
Not looking to offend anybody, just bringing back a thread I feel was important, even though I hated it at the time, because it told me I paid a lot of mone a couple times and still didn't have the real one.

 

[kevinpratt823]

This is the closest to a Pink Lemonade I have, the Reef Exotic Rainbow Acro is a slightly different morph, as it develops some blue around the base at the new growth, but at least it's the same species I believe, which is a Nasuta. Many of the ones I see posted and the ones I bought before are actually a Prostrata or Mille I think. Last time I had a glass of lemonade, it was yellow.

 

[kevinpratt823]

This is the closest to a Pink Lemonade I have, the Reef Exotic Rainbow Acro is a slightly different morph, as it develops some blue around the base at the new growth, but at least it's the same species I believe, which is a Nasuta. Many of the ones I see posted and the ones I bought before are actually a Prostrata or Mille I think. Last time I had a glass of lemonade, it was yellow, regaurdless of who's house I was in and what kind of lights they had.

 

[Bruno]

Kev down boy down down boy


I'm busting them on ya

 

[kevinpratt823]

Don't pick on me Bruno, you know I'm very sensitive.