Rice Reef's 120 SPS Reef Tank

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by ashr

Oh and very nice corals, everything looks great!

Thanks! Rich has the same frag... hopefully he has been getting better growth than I.

[Rice Reef]

K. Got home early enough today to get some better shots with The Canon 180mm lens... Again, please excuse some of the blurriness as I could not use the tripod taking these top down pics. Hope you like these too!


Snappy's Red Planet... can't seem to get that red with the Canon...





























I really like this one...

another shot of the same...



suppose to be a blue and red milli.. only see blue..










part two coming up....

[Snappy]

Things are looking fabulous Wayne. It's funny how some corals just take so darn long to color up - I feel your pain! I can say that once they do I usually feel that it was worth the wait.

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by Snappy

Things are looking fabulous Wayne. It's funny how some corals just take so darn long to color up - I feel your pain! I can say that once they do I usually feel that it was worth the wait.

Greg, thanks! I'm advertising for you... Do you recognise most of them? Many of them are colouring up now... slow but surely... hope they will start to grow a bit faster... but I am not complaining... well worth the wait!

[Stones]

Great looking macros again. You've got some crazy PE going on in that tank and the colors of those SPS are pretty unreal.

What do you normally do to get your white balance adjusted properly? I find when taking photos of the tank I can never consistently get my white balance adjusted to show the true colors of the corals.

[Rice Reef]

Originally Posted by Stones

Great looking macros again. You've got some crazy PE going on in that tank and the colors of those SPS are pretty unreal.

What do you normally do to get your white balance adjusted properly? I find when taking photos of the tank I can never consistently get my white balance adjusted to show the true colors of the corals.

Thanks again. I am quite lucky so far that the corals are now growing and colouring up. I would have to say that this set up is now 1 yr old and it has had a few set backs too. I am currently having a war against cyano and I may want to add more flow in the back and I am thinking that the biopellets may be the culprit to the cyano as I added biopellets over gfo six months ago... May consider adding gfo back now if I cannot beat e cyano with Zeozym and coral snow.

As for the white balance, I am just shooting with AWB with my Canon 5D mark iii. It seems to work fine (new processor?) however, with my prev Canon I usually set it to 10000K.

[Duker]

Wow Wayne, those are soo SWEET!!!! Not to mention the snazzy photo skills! Cheers Ronnie

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Rice Reef

Greg, thanks! I'm advertising for you... Do you recognise most of them? Many of them are colouring up now... slow but surely... hope they will start to grow a bit faster... but I am not complaining... well worth the wait!

Thanks Wayne. There are quite a few familiar looking pieces in that last round of pictures.

[Rice Reef]

Phosphate issue update: Did a 40 gallon water change yesterday and the po4 level dropped from .25 to .19. Just completed another water change today... 30 gallons... Making another batch of water tonight and will do another test tomorrow. Traded with kevink today for gfo and a salifert po4 test kit for frags . May try some GFO if the water changes are not working.

[gregzz4]

Originally Posted by Rice Reef

May try some GFO if the water changes are not working.

Wayne, if you do go the GFO route, keep in mind that a rapid removal of PO4 can upset your SPS, so do it gradually over a couple/few months
Ie; first month 10ml/10g, second month 15-20ml/10g, then you can move onto 25ml/10g from there
FWIW - I use 250ml each 4 weeks on my 110g system