Bali aquacultured lets see'em
 

Hey Guys,

I swear I started a thread with this subject before. For the life of me I can't find it. Anyways lets get another one going. I know there has been a good deal of these Bali pieces coming into B.C so lets see them in your tanks. Here's my two favorite.

Here's a pic of this one I got in June.
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/june6_002.JPG

And now in December
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/dec0404_016_copi.JPG

This one in October
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/Oct2204_021_copy.JPG

And now in December
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/dec0404_003_copy.JPG

Ok Guys now don't be shy lets see them.

Well, if I had some... where is your tutorial on top-down shooting, BTW? :biggrin:

Very interested to see this thread progress. :cool:

well lets see in the first pic there are 2, left and right sides of the bucket, I got thoes two in may.
http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/tankwrek/bucket1.jpg

In this one to the top left is a beautiful Bali deep water acro that I got a month or two bwfor the others.
http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/tankwrek/bucket2.jpg

(got to get some pics of the new ones though) :neutral:

Steve

... I'm not sure whether to shake my head or laugh...

Niether am I man, Niether am I :confused:

Steve

Me, I'm laughing. I cried when I saw (and smelled) the bucket. Are you fragging any of those Steve?? :razz:

Yeah, no... I'm not fond of those pics at all. :neutral:

Agreed. Let's try to keep this in the spirit in which Jamie intended. Live bali frags only for the rest of the thread, k?

http://www.canreef.com/photopost/dat...15balifrag.jpg

Not nearly as brown in real life. More a honey blonde ale colour, with blue tips like the bags under your eyes the morning after too many honey blonde ales. :lol:

Great pieces there Jamie :biggrin:
I really like the second piece, so much in fact that I guess I couldn't supply enough Stella's to get a frag of that one eh :mrgreen:
Where are you getting these exotic acro's from?
LFS or your buddies down south?

Rich, these are all pieces available at most of the western Canadian LFS. They all come in from the same supplier, so there is no secret source. Hidden Reef gets large orders in over that side of the water.

Well, there's always my pink peice:

http://www.cichlids.ca/images/galler...cros/PinkB.jpg

Alan, Well thats an easy one...Get some. :)
Hold on tight. :lol:

Steve, well aren't you a party pooper. :cry:
Why don't you do that. Corals always look better with some tissue on them. :cool:

Scavenger, MMMMMM honey blonde ale, now you got my attention. :lol:

Rich, Oh I'm sure you could. Like Brad said about the where from question. Those pieces posted are from Hidden Reef. I believe they got a good price on them right now too.

albert, Thanks for playing. Nice piece, there is a nice selection of milli type pieces in these bali orders.

Now lets see some more.

I'll try tonight, was pulling algae for 2 hours last night :rolleyes: I hate new tanks :mrgreen: but if I can squeeze my head in the top of my stand I will try get some top down ones..

Steve

Steve, you had some great tissue-covered shots if I remember... still got 'em? :biggrin:

ya these corals have been in my tank for about a week since the pic were taken (maybe two) and I took them the day after I got them.

If you look in the dead middle of the pink Milli (last pic) you will see the reason it has no polyp extension. the bad type of acro crab and since its removal the coral has been happy as a clam.

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb...4/blueacro.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb.../greenacro.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb.../pinkmilli.jpg

Steve

Ok here are the same corals just over a week laiter, but from a top down view.. Jamie how the heck do you get nice top down photos of blue corals? :eek:

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb.../greenacro.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb.../pinkmilli.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/newb...4/blueacro.jpg

Steve

Now those are some nice pics... :mrgreen:

Your other "devastation" photos just made me sad. :cry:

NOw thats the spirit Steve. :cool: I really like the first one in your top down shots. Steve for the most part getting good shots of blue/purple colored corals isn't the easiest and perhaps the hardest. You just have to play with angles and setting. Also shutting off the actinic lighting helps. For the life of me I can't get a good top down shot of my Cali Tort it's just too purple for the camera to get a clear shot even with the actinics off. Just when I think I got it and it looks good in the LCD I bring it up on the PC and nope it sucks. One of these days I'll get it.
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ya I will have to try it with the actinics off. I took about 50 pics of it and every one was crap LOL

Steve

Got this one back in May. Unfortunately, it suffered some tissue loss during the time when I lost about 70% of my Acros. Luckily this survived. It has potential but it is currently under my center brace right now and not receiving a whole lot of light.

This picture is from May.

http://www.hyperdream.com/~samw/reef...g_6100_std.jpg

oooh oooh I think I have one.....do I ? Albert ? Kari ? The purple/now solid blue one?

Okay that's it. I need a camera back. :neutral:

Deb, you picked up at least three when I seen you in the store. I'd post a Bali pic but I've only tried to get one 80 times so far.

Deb's getting excited over a fuzzy stick !!!!! :razz: I thought I'd never see the day. :lol: :wink:

:eek: Mee too! :eek:

Well I can't keep any decent backdrop with my butterflys... :razz: :lol:

Sam, Yeah that is a nice one, when the orders come in it certainly is an eye catcher. I believe that one is being marketed as A. elseyi.

Thay all come around eventually :biggrin:

After seeing this post I picked up a stocking stuffer for myself today while I was xmas shopping. I'm still waiting for the PM though as to how many Stella's I need to bring out for a tiny frag of that second colony :mrgreen:

http://members.shaw.ca/sumpfinfishe/...ellowacroc.jpg

Hey Rich, Holy blue light :eek: As for a frag you might be better off asking after a few beers. :lol:

Yeah that is pretty blue alright :rolleyes: that's cause I didn't get home til late and it was even later when realized I should take a shot of the new piece. I will try to get one today now that the daylight tubes are on :biggrin:

Hey Jamie, did you change your email address?
And like I said, you name the time and I will bring the keg's :mrgreen:

Rich, I did change my addy some time ago. If you have jcross1@shaw.ca then yeah I changed it. I wanted something different and put my creative mind to work and came up with jcross2@shaw.ca :razz: Kidding aside I used to have high speed then I down graded to the light speed and couldn't keep the same addy.

There sure isn't many pics being posted in this thread. I'm sure there has to be more of us that have gotten some of the Bali's. So get out the camera's and lets see them. :cool:

Well here it is under the daylight tube, now you guy's might be
able to see what I took a picture of in my previous reply to this thread :razz: :biggrin:
Gotta get me a better macro camera one of these days!

http://members.shaw.ca/sumpfinfishe/...ellowacrod.jpg

I thought I posted this but Brad says I was dreaming....

http://www.members.shaw.ca/bhadford1/Firstpic.jpg

well went out on tuesday and bought a new Bali coral. not much to look at right now but I have a hunch it is going to turn out real nice.

http://members.shaw.ca/crystalk/24dec04/newballi.jpg

Steve

Well figured I'd better give an update on the ones that I didn't think were picture worthy. (for those that havn't seen the update on Rc)

When I first got it back in November
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/nov2504_004.JPG

As of yesterday. I know it's even hard for me to believe this is the same coral.
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/jan1105_001.JPG

Another from back in November.
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/nov2504_003.JPG

Again as of yesterday.
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/jan1105_013.JPG

As well an update on the Monti.
http://members.shaw.ca/jcross2/jan1105_007.JPG

:cool:
that monti gets a big wow factor :exclaim:

I kinda like the "before" shot on that first one. :biggrin: I guess you never know what they're gonna do...

Rich, I get the feeling you like that Monti. :biggrin:

Alan, I would tend to agree with you as far as close up shots go. Over time as it grows and finished the color transformation I believe the new look will be better as far as a full picture is concerned. What I'm saying is when viewing the tank as a whole, I believe the new look will stand out more. At least thats what I'm hoping for. :razz:

hey Jamie , nice pics , is that second one down a piece of a table acro ? just wondering if that's from Mike's ? how's the tank coming ?


Russ

by the way ... when do i get to come by and check it out , i had a few ideas i wanted to check with you as well !!


Russ