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really? no one likes my tank? no comments? That sucks.
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I think your tank looks great! You have some really nice pieces in there.
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I commented on reef central. I don't find you get much feedback on canreef.
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the hermit micro shots are my fave!
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what kind of lense are you using for the micro shots?
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tank is looking great by the way
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Thanks for the comments everyone... I always like to know what others think of my tank in case they have a good idea on what to change, and I want to get a little more active on here.
As for the lense. I am using a Canon 100mm f2.8 usm macro lense. I bought it used and got it in the mail on thursday. I can't wait to get my tripod from my mother so I can take decent pics of corals at the front of the glass. And I can't wait til my clowns aren't paying attention one day and my turbos or myself can get a chance at the hair algae on the one section on the back of the tank.. it looks weird there now. |
Just a few more pictures
http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-29-2010.jpg A pic of Orion.. it is not as good as my last star pics because I was shooting this outside the window at my parents place and it was waaaaay cold and it was beginning to cloud over. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-28-2010.jpg |
Nice pics! And your tank is nice as well.
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Those macro pics are awsome!
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Thanks very much Madreefer and Chris88. I am slowly learning how to use the macro lense. I suck at the tripod part right now though.. I need to learn a little patience and get a remote shutter to prevent the shaking.. But I am loving it. If I drove, I would be begging other hobbiests in my area to let me take pics of their tanks for practice.
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Those are some killer pics there Sarah!!!.....and it looks like you have some sweet pieces...........of coral:wink:.....I really like those zoas in the first pic:biggrin:....
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Thanks Doug. It has really come a long way and has a little bit to go. lol... I can't wait for the turbo snail to clean the hair algae off the clowns area in the back.... of course that is provided the clowns stop attacking them every time the turbo approaches.
I got those zoas off of Oceansdirect based out of Toronto. They are growing nicely in my tank and have multiplied. Can't wait for them to spread to the other rockwork. I have been trying to get some contrasting coloration to add dimension to the tank. There are still certain corals on my wish list I want to get eventually, but I have been heavily debatting upgrading my tank to a 100g+, but I have to find the room in my apartment and I am worried a little about the transfering of the coral But it would give me sooo much more room. |
Nice pics. Glad you got things figured out! I gave up on the photography.
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there is definetly some growth happening. Have you ever tried to scrap the algae and coraline off the glass? It really makes the corals stand out when its clean. I use a kent pro scrap with a metal blade and it works like a charm.
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I have sort of used a scrapper when I had a major algae issue, but the turbo snails are slowly eating it. I have been more concerned with the RO water switchover. I made my first $100 in frag sales this month. yippee.. but man did I have to educate some people on proper tank husbandry and inform them they don't have the right lighting and perameters to keep corals healthy. Very frustrating.
I am in the process right now of either upgrading to a larger tank, or taking a 33g (36lx12wx18h) that I have in the bedroom and setting that one up in addition to this one. If I do that, I plan on making it an AIO system and using my PAR38 bulbs for the lighting. |
Time for some new pix of my new stuff.
Ric Yumas. I traded some of my frags for this frag of three heads.. it now has two new heads starting on the rocks and these went from half an inch in size to almost 3 inches diameter. They are very happy in my tank. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg New firefish http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg New Bangaii cardinals.. #1 is still out and active. #2 on the other hand is MIA after 4 days. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg Now some of the older.... Paly's are growing like wild fire. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg McCosker's is flashing away today http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg Brown zoas improving after I snapped back some of my red monticap. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg Sebae update.. doing well and getting darker. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg Whatchu Looking at Foo? http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-06-2011.jpg |
Ok.. now for some end of the month pictures, mostly macros.
Yuma http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Rainbow Monti http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2010.jpg Blueberry Monti http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Red and Green Monti Cap http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Purple tipped Digi http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Acan garden with gsp, yuma rock, gsp chalices and duncans http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Dendro http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Blue Tenuis http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Another type of tenuis.... good lord tenuis are such slooooow growers. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Purple with White polyp unknown: Sorry for the crappy pic.. it is hard to get a pic of. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Green Bottlebrush http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Toxic Chalice... this one has grown back nicely from nearly nothing. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Brown/Green Pocci... I really want to get a pink one. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Green unknown acro http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg True Tricolor growing back and liking it up there closer to the lights. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Unknown acro: this one hasn't done well in my tank until recently when I moved it down to the sandbed to see if that was low enough light for it.. it almost died when I had it on the side of the tank closer to the lights. So I am hoping over time it colors back up. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Red rimmed zoas http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Red skirted zoas http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...01-30-2011.jpg Tank update: well unfortunately all my clams are dead. I am not sure of the definite cause, but I am thinking it was some sort of pathogen as only clams were affected for the most part, although some other corals were not happy when the clams started dying. They were withdrawn and the encrusting monti's started losing their colors. Whatever it was, it was strange. It attacked the foot of the clam and killed it from the inside out. Right up to nearly the time of death, the clams would act normal from above, their mantles expanding and contracting, but you would have a hole you could see and mucous showing either from the side of the clam or through the foot. Once I saw this I took the clams out, with one exception, and that was the clam my RBTA is attached to. It is very happy where it is and I don't want to screw that up. After the two larger maximas died.. and oh how I loved my gold teardrop... :( ... and I did a large water change and put in new carbon the corals started improving and gaining their color back, very quickly I might add. You wouldn't know today that the encrusting monti's were almost all white. My icefire is receeding now .. had rtn, but it has stopped so now I have almost all white stick in that area. Grr. But on the bright side, my green monti is darkening in color a lot. and everything else is growing just fine, especially the acans. Now over the next month, I have to figure out how the heck I am going to move two juvi clowns out of this system into their own tank.. The bottle trick didn't work.. and trying to get the one from below during lights out didn't work either.. any thoughts? |
Sorry to hear of the tank troubles. Sucks about the clams - but indeed once you get a pathogen in there like that they just go one by one. It's very disheartening.
FWIW though man that last set of macro photos are just stunner. You wouldn't know you're having frustrations based on those shots. Some very nice stuff there and really exquisite colours showing up. :) Hope the upward trend continues. |
Sorry to hear about your clams Sarah:sad:....Im going through the exact same thing atm....only I thought it was my coral beauty the caused my die off.....now Im wondering....hmmmmm
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If you are getting the exact same symptoms in your clams that I had in mine, where they are degrading from the foot up.. then I don't think it is your fish doing it.. I thought it was the hermits, bristleworms or something else bothering my clams, but when I took them out to do freshwater dips, there was nothing.. no pyramid snails nothing.. even in them until the mantle on top started deteriorating.
The only other thing I could think it is, is some sort of new treatment they are using for our local water sources that the clams don't agree with, but what ever is happening with the clams I know we are not the only ones to have the exact same issue and not know what it is. |
So, a small update of pix for the month.
The Tricolor acro has been growing really quickly this month. It has grown over the part that was stung by the pocci before I moved it. It has also now developed new branches. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg The Yuma is larger than ever, it has two mouths and I am beginning to wonder when it is going to split. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg It is not very often I get the chance to take a pic of my Toxic Chalice. I have had it as long as the other one, but it nearly died. But its comeback has been explosive, at least in terms of growth. Almost twice that as my rainbow one. It is almost the size it was when I got it. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg Speaking of, here is my rainbow chalice. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg My Toadstool is happy as ever and growing a whole lot as well. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg These are some green striped mushrooms I am looking after for a friend. They are almost the size of a dime right now for a couple of them. Most much smaller than that. They are coming back slowly from near nothingness. I can't wait to see how they turn out. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg The green bottlebrush is growing growing growing. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg The same with this one. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg Now that I have moved my xenia to the back of the tank, I can take better picks of my larger dendro. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg Sam the eagle, my starry blenny was all upfront for a pic. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg Acans happy as can be. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg And a bunch of pics of Omen from tonight. He has been allowed by Big Momma to come out of hiding for the last four days as long as he sticks around the front left of the tank near the brineshrimp net I have in there for them to get used to to try to catch him with (a larger net) eventually. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg Finally, Front Tank Shot 02-15-2011 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...02-15-2011.jpg |
I may have mentioned this before but, Girl......you take some incredible pics!.....love the shots of the chalices and the starry blenny (I so want one of those fish!)
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Great pic.'s amazing detail to them. Very nice set up :biggrin:
I also love the "food" caption above the clown :lol: |
Just a couple of pics.
Here is a better pic of my christmas favia, now that I have moved it away from the corner. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-10-2011.jpg My RBTA was getting a little too close to this digi, so I made a frag of it's arm. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-10-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-10-2011.jpg My Green candycanes are really happy. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-10-2011.jpg Tricolor is starting to develop blue in its' new branches. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-10-2011.jpg |
New additions.
Dark brown feather duster http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg Light brown feather duster http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg Black Hermit http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg Acro crab http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg Regular ol' red hermit http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg The happy couple http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-14-2011.jpg |
I do like perving your thread Sarah, you never disappoint.....
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Oh, Ive perved that one too:biggrin:.......though I must admit, Im not really all that much into the phallic shaped LPS......Laurie likes that kind of stuff....she loves the hammer and spawn she has, so would probably be into the torch......me, Im more of a acan, blassto, doughnut kinda guy:wink:
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Hummmm did someone say phallic? Heading over to the other tank journal now :wink:
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Just some quick updated shots of this tank. Not much has changed over the last month. I have three peppermint shrimp in this tank. They only come out at night. Two males and one female heavy with eggs right now.
Both bengaii cardinals are still in this tank, and the smaller one is not being picked on as much as before and so is able to eat more and is looking better. Big Momma and Jigsaw are displaying more and more breeding behavior every week and they have been looking for a more suitable area attempt to lay a nest. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-08-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg Also, here are some sps polyps shots. Which one do you like the best? http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg Current Front Tank shote 04-18-2011 http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...04-18-2011.jpg |
Been a long time since I updated so I thought I would give a quick one.
Tank is still going strong. I have no more room for new corals because I am out of space. I have purchased a used 75g, I just need to reseal the black trim onto the top of it and then save up more to set it up. Xenia is growing everywhere, the sps are still doing well. Growing slower since I have let the tank balance itsself. The only fish I have lost is the blue devil damsel, really no loss as she was a b**ch to any new fish added. Clowns are continuing to lay, the sebae has gotten larger. RBTA has split, etc etc. I added a couple new corals in Aug down at the bottom of the tank for now until the transfer. I have a monti Setosa, Ponape Birdsnest (so nice with yellow, green blue polyps and purple tips), and a purple monti cap. :) Really, other than fish, I don't want too many new corals. So here are some pics. nothing great, as the front glass is starting to get the nasty film back on it that doesn't easily scrape off, so it was harder also to photograph some areas on an angle because of that. setosa: These are really slow growers... http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg Ponape http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg Clown in Sebae http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg Newest nest of clowneggs. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg fts http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...03-11-2011.jpg |
Just a couple more pics.. mostly of my new addition. A 2nd McCoskers flasher wrasse.
I find it rather interesting how much these guys loose color if they are the only ones in the tank with themselves and they grow larger. The new guy, a much smaller juvenile is very bright and eats like a piggy. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-12-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-12-2011.jpg the old guy (I still have him in this tank) http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg Then some pics of my clowns Big Momma and Jigsaw and then of the larger Male Bengaii, Monster and Sam the Blenny http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-23-2011.jpg Then here is my Sebae anemone and Jigsaw. The sebae has decided it wants to go through a growth spurt. Mostly this is due to the fact that Jigsaw is now feeding it left over flake food he catches when he has had his fill. http://i382.photobucket.com/albums/o...11-12-2011.jpg |
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