350g sps

[Eyore]

thanks

its a slow process growing in coral that started as frags with me a few years ago (in the main)

below are fts front and back from may 2013 when i shifted my old stock into tjis tank to sept 2014 taking around every 3-4 months. I have no recent ones i can upload but will take some soon

i do not know why pics with a dsr are so small but my camera phone ones are big, computers are not my thing

 

[dave.m]

i do not know why pics with a dsr are so small but my camera phone ones are big, computers are not my thing

It comes down to resolution (You say you want a ...). Somewhere on your camera there must be a setting where you set the resolution, not only for when you snap the shot but also when you save the resulting image.

If your settings for taking the image are small (e.g. 640x480 pixels) then the image will always be small. If the initial settings for the image you take are huge (e.g. 1920x1080 pixels) then you can control the image size somewhat when you save it, say to 800x640 pixels.

How the image will finally appear to the viewer will very much depend on the screen resolution of the viewer's device, e.g. cell phone versus PC. Lots of info about this on the web. Just Google.

Dave.M

 

[Eyore]

It comes down to resolution (You say you want a ...). Somewhere on your camera there must be a setting where you set the resolution, not only for when you snap the shot but also when you save the resulting image.

If your settings for taking the image are small (e.g. 640x480 pixels) then the image will always be small. If the initial settings for the image you take are huge (e.g. 1920x1080 pixels) then you can control the image size somewhat when you save it, say to 800x640 pixels.

How the image will finally appear to the viewer will very much depend on the screen resolution of the viewer's device, e.g. cell phone versus PC. Lots of info about this on the web. Just Google.

Dave.M

lol

when i next get the dsr out i will come back to this post and see if it helps me out- thanks for that

however you know when your talking to new reefer, and you answer as simply as possible, only for the next question to be clearly already answered in your first post.

i am the newbie in this sense

 

[deansreef]

awesome tank, love the efflos

 

[Eyore]

awesome tank, love the efflos

thankyou

 

[acesq]

Very nice tank. How high above the waterline are your Atlantiks? You have managed to get a lot more out of them than I. I finally gave up after frying most of my SPS.

 

[Eyore]

Very nice tank. How high above the waterline are your Atlantiks? You have managed to get a lot more out of them than I. I finally gave up after frying most of my SPS.

thankyou

the atlantiks are 6 inch above the water, give or take

i do have optiwhite cover glasses on the tank (wrasse tend to bounce off them once in a while so i leave them on), and i have delensed the atlantiks- which makes for better "blending" and a more even spread- though actually there was absolutley no shift in the uptake of cacl2 and nahco3 when i did this (leading me to believe i didnt reduce par too much, just distributed it a little better)

the atlantiks are all channels 100% for 6 hours per day, with a 3 hour ramp up and down either side, in this way i go against what a lot of reefers do with led! but it was my first leds having previously been t5, and i wanted to see what the led could do, so i been this way from the start (imho a lot (but not all) of the "led bleaching" threads i saw on my local forum were actually quite the oposite, and the advice and reefer response oposite to correct

I did though "bleach" a green foliosa and green digitata montipora on intro, which took a few months for these coral to adjust, though it has to be said my tank at the time was though chemically good, biologically it was poor and immature which will not have helped! (which resulted in a 4 month battle i evrntually won against dinoflaggelates)

when i shifted my coral stock over from my holding tank (my old dt while i built this), on a like for like basis the uptake of cacl2 and nahco3 increased instantly by around 40%!! light was the only real factor involved (corals were located if anything lower in this tank). previous light was a 12x54w t5 sfiligoi (cooled) over my 4x2.5x2.5 previous dt

hope that gives you something to work off, its probably not the way an led expert would do it!

btw the efflo/soli i take pictures off has grown from 3cm across to 18cm across (give or take a cm) in 8 months, and is 9 inch below the water, just outside being directly under the atlantiks.

 

[acesq]

Thanks for that explanation. The only part I don't understand is how the optiwhite cover glass fits in. I assume this is the same as starfire glass we use here. Do you believe it helps spread the light and reduce the laser effect of LEDs that I believe makes it difficult to achieve balanced lighting?

And 12 54W T5s over a 48x30?? Wow! That generated some substantial PAR! Did you use the glass cover for that tank as well? How high off the water did you mount the fixture?

 

[Eyore]

optiwhite- the low iron without thd green tint which scratches all too easily! yes starfire i think

it wont in any way help i dont think, but some light is undoubtedly reflected away from the tank, i do not know the degree to which par is affected just it must be to a degree

the 12x54w sfiligoi was actually only 3 inch off the water beliece it or not, as it was a temporary thing it just sat on dome metal bars running across the dt, which ran far longer than i planned!

 

[DavidinGA]

Sweet tank man

 

[Eyore]

Sweet tank man

thankyou for your kind words

 

[Eyore]

Just a quick comparrison of 7 weeks growth

I apologise for it being a bit overexposed, i really ought to get out the dslr rather than using my camera phone

 

[dave.m]

Yes, the new picture is much bigger.

Dave.M

 

[Eyore]

Yes, the new picture is much bigger.

Dave.M

Lol
Yes

 

[Eyore]

Sps on 21/2/15: http://youtu.be/UcOiUheuqZQ

To be straight though, things are not at my best

 

[Eyore]

 

[Eyore]

Half decent fts not on my camera phone before a little resite

2 steps back to hopefully move 3 forward, digitata gone, efflo and a few things resited.
The efflo grew from 4cm across in april 2014 to 29x around 20cm at august 1st 2015, shading a lot of coral causing me issues

For some reason part way through updating it wont let me post the url links of the rest of the photos i wanted to post

 

[nuxx]

Stunning!

 

[Eyore]

Stunning!

And there was me feeling all lonely:lmao:

Thankyou