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Doug 11-23-2008 12:53 PM

That sure is a purdy little reef Steve. :D

sphelps 11-30-2008 09:39 PM

New addition
 
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1714.jpg

LeeR 12-01-2008 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 360224)


Is that brain on the left a full ball or is it cut off at the back?

sphelps 12-01-2008 02:53 AM

it's a new addition, not in that FTS.

LeeR 12-01-2008 03:03 AM

ohh.. i mean the one in the FTS in the front left the purple looking one.... it looks like a full round colony.... you dont really see a full colony that often.. :biggrin:

sphelps 12-01-2008 03:23 AM

oh, my bad. Yeah it's a full ball about the size of a human brain. I've had it for about 5 years and grew it from a smaller-flatter piece.

LeeR 12-01-2008 03:30 AM

very cool. :mrgreen:

sphelps 12-15-2008 06:51 PM

My budget is up to date and I'll get some new pics up tonight. I picked up another crazy Wellso yesterday so tank's looking sweet. Still waiting for that key addition though, damn!

sphelps 12-16-2008 01:59 AM

NEW ADDITION: Wellsophyllia
 
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1839.jpg

sphelps 12-16-2008 02:01 AM

Dec 15 fts
 
I was having a few issues with exposure tonight but this will do

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...DSC_1840-1.jpg

Ryan_Lap 12-16-2008 02:04 AM

Seems to be an error with the pic, unless its just me....
Very nice looking addition :biggrin:

JDigital 12-16-2008 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ryan_Lap (Post 369136)
Seems to be an error with the pic, unless its just me....
Very nice looking addition :biggrin:

I'm getting the same error.

karazy 12-16-2008 02:06 AM

i am also having the same error

sphelps 12-16-2008 02:14 AM

Damn you guys sure are quick, what are you just sitting on my thread waiting? :lol:

The picture is still uploading, patience.

karazy 12-16-2008 02:23 AM

you planning on putting any fish in that bad boy sphelps?

Lance 12-16-2008 02:26 AM

That is one nice looking tank. Good job!

rocketlily 12-16-2008 02:28 AM

Very nice.

sphelps 12-16-2008 02:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karazy (Post 369144)
you planning on putting any fish in that bad boy sphelps?

Something like that :wink:

karazy 12-16-2008 02:44 AM

you should get a few different pico gobies (trimma,eviota, ect)

sphelps 12-16-2008 03:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by karazy (Post 369154)
you should get a few different pico gobies (trimma,eviota, ect)

Yeah maybe, for now I'm going to stick to the theme though.

A couple more pics:

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1848.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1838.jpg

KennyKen 12-16-2008 04:11 AM

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1848.jpg


oooooooooooooo, thats nice,
what is that.

sphelps 12-16-2008 04:14 AM

Clove polyp

noirsphynx 12-16-2008 04:18 AM

Love that Multi color clove, I waaaaant!!

StirCrazy 12-16-2008 01:32 PM

Man, you got to lay off the photo shop a bit.. this looks horable. try a pic and just leave it alone, you over saturated this one to the point your sand is multi colored.

other than that, nice layout and corals.

Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 369135)
I was having a few issues with exposure tonight but this will do

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...DSC_1840-1.jpg


sphelps 12-16-2008 01:36 PM

Like I said I was having issues with exposure, give a guy a break. That's what the sand looks like BTW, green and red algae is growing on it.

StirCrazy 12-16-2008 01:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 369252)
Like I said I was having issues with exposure, give a guy a break. That's what the sand looks like BTW, green and red algae is growing on it.

ahh, that partially explains it.

it wasn't the red and green algae I was talking about it was the yellow, purple, blue hehe

sphelps 12-16-2008 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StirCrazy (Post 369256)
ahh, that partially explains it.

it wasn't the red and green algae I was talking about it was the yellow, purple, blue hehe

Blue from the light, yellow and purple are shades of red and green algae. It's a result from over exposure, I never touched saturation and if I did it wouldn't have done the effect you describe. Sorry if doesn't meet your standards, after all it was you all along I was trying to impress. :lol:

StirCrazy 12-16-2008 02:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 369264)
Blue from the light, yellow and purple are shades of red and green algae. It's a result from over exposure, I never touched saturation and if I did it wouldn't have done the effect you describe. Sorry if doesn't meet your standards, after all it was you all along I was trying to impress. :lol:

hey, I like the tank, you must have missed that part.

you'll find though I have an aversion to the way photo shop has been used over the years, and yes I use it also, well used to till I got Vista and am to cheep to go buy one that will work with Vista:mrgreen:

the problem is that a lot of on line vendors were photo-shopping the heck out of the corals, and doing a nice job at it, so when you got your coral it was nothing like the WYSIWYG pictures and never would come close to it.

Also there were a lot of people posting photo shopped pics of there tanks. the problem with this one was it was at a time when no one new much about lighting (kinda like today :mrgreen: ) this was my pet peeve was that there was no info out there on lighting, hence it is why I spent 10K in 3 years on lights, PAR meter ect. anyways I digress

back to photo shop. in a time when everyone was trying to learn what lights were good people were posting photo shopped pics of tanks lit by PC's VHO's, 170w MH, ect.. so looking visually at a picture there was no reliable indication of how they were relay affecting the color of the corals.

Icecap was a player making claims about there VHO ballast which I went head to head with them and got them to admit it wasn't what they said, T5's were one of the biggest though when they were first introduced it was amazing the photo-shopped pics... or pics showing T5s on a tank that was amazing. But, I knew the tank and the guy who owned it, they took the MH off put the T5s on took a pic and then went back to the MH.

so the problem isn't with a pic that has been photo-shopped it is how it is used.

yours wasn't intended to be used like these, it was just at a contrast and sharpness than made it hard to look at on my monitor and I was just letting you know it looked messed up.

no hard feeling intended, just didn't know if you knew how it looked on a LCD monitor.

Steve

sphelps 12-16-2008 03:14 PM

I meant no offense either, I thought we were just kidding around.

I know what you're getting at with the PhotoShop and vendors but it's part of the game and it's all about buyer beware. Corals will look different in every tank, no matter what.

Just so you know, that pic never touched photoshop, it was edited in Capture NX2 and it was not edited in they way you may think. The pic was shot in RAW mode and the over exposure is to blame, not over editing. I didn't feel like setting up again for another shot last night, it was a long day so I posted it to meet the 15th deadline. I plan on replacing it when I get a chance, as I'm not happy with it either. But lay off the "horrible", that's not helpful.

StirCrazy 12-16-2008 08:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sphelps (Post 369284)
But lay off the "horrible", that's not helpful.

ok, wrong word :mrgreen:

Steve

Boomboy 12-17-2008 02:16 AM

yeah i agree with stircrazy. but hey that would be awesome if we could get those colours in our tanks as a norm. but i still love your tank alot, just great coral selection, and great placement of the corals, i hope if you get a fish or some kind of creature it fits with the tank perfectly.

Edit- not saying that you photoshopped yours, just agreeing with stir. but you can tell something is up with the pic, but your last months picture was still wicked. keep it up

sphelps 12-17-2008 04:02 AM

Hows this one?

Brain Macro
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...C_1854copy.jpg

Ryan_Lap 12-17-2008 04:05 AM

Looks good to me..... Id say it represents its true colors.

OCDP 12-17-2008 10:27 PM

That's one colourful little reef you've got going on there :mrgreen: Really nice..

sphelps 12-18-2008 12:39 AM

New fts dec 17
 
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...8/DSC_1856.jpg

sphelps 01-16-2009 03:01 AM

Jan 15 Update
 
FTS
http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...uary09/FTS.jpg

Lost a couple corals and things looking a little rough this month. I was gone for 2 weeks and the tank is slowly recovering. Stupid Nanos! :lol:

A couple more pics. Most of these were taken with my new camera and case I got for Scuba Diving and snorkeling. Just trying it out.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0107.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/DSC_2116.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/DSC_2104.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/DSC_2106.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/DSC_2114.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/DSC_2115.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0110.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0119.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0114.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0115.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0116.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0118.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...9/IMG_0121.jpg

ElGuappo 01-16-2009 05:12 AM

looks great i really like the acro at the top.

Scythanith 01-16-2009 05:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElGuappo (Post 377884)
looks great i really like the acro at the top.

I don't think that acro is doing to well... aka.... dead. The large brain on the front left has to be my favorite in this tank. Nice specimen!

Delphinus 01-16-2009 05:59 AM

What is the tiny red guy between the squammie and the Trachyphyllia?

ElGuappo 01-16-2009 06:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scythanith (Post 377896)
I don't think that acro is doing to well... aka.... dead. !

Yup missed the close up and thought i may be tri color from the FTS.:wink:


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