A Reefaholic's 1000+ Gallon Mixed Reef System Build

Full Tank Shot?

Full Tank Shot?

Played with the camera a bit and got some shots tonight so I can start tracking growth/color on coral. FTS was a real challenge and looks like I still need to do some major research on taking a good FTS!:fun5:

Tell me what you think and feel free to share tips. Before doing any photo processing this looked like complete garbage. Tried to adjust to the colors most representative of what they are.

FTS#1:


FTS#2:
 
Mine does the same thing.

Next time I do pics I am going to turn OFF the UV and Blues.

See if my white balance comes out better.

Was that one pic or did you stitch two together?

I think it looks good. You see what I mean about the blues on the shadows under the overhangs though right? I wonder.
 
It was one picture and white balance is off and had issues getting it set right. I'll have to try some different colors on lights to see what comes out the best. Ive not yet uploaded photos yet as I'm out of space on photobucket and I'm frustrated they yanked unlimited storage. Considering paying for photobucket or going ahead and changing to smug mug. Since smug mug allows full res uploads up to 50mB think it might be better choice. Opinions on this too?! ;)
 
I love the aquascaping...I don't know why but I find that LED and T5 lit tanks always look bluer in pics then in real life.

BTW, my black axil batch from live aquaria was a bust. I'm down to 2 fish out of 10 after 3 days :(
 
worm5406 said:
Use your picasa account: It is part of your google account. You do have one right??

Picasa
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Think I'm going to go ahead and start using smug mug to store all my personal/family photos and reef photos. $48/year and I can store my HD videos too so I don't have to worry about having drives go bad on my storage server.

roni said:
I love the aquascaping...I don't know why but I find that LED and T5 lit tanks always look bluer in pics then in real life.

BTW, my black axil batch from live aquaria was a bust. I'm down to 2 fish out of 10 after 3 days
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Thanks! It's definitely hard and think I might try without blues a couple times. Got old having to fix the white balance on all my pictures.

Sorry about the black axils. That whole deal fell through on the black axils so I did not get order in on the 50. I might just go ahead and order 50 regular chromis on my next order which should be ~next week?
 
I'll try to post a few pictures I got of the coral in last nights experimental shoot. I need to post some in the photo forum to get some additional guidance. I used aperture priority and shot at either 35mm or 50mm and really wanting that 100 mm macro lens! F-stop of f/9 and ISO 100.

Green Acro (Unsure on name?):


Tri-Color:


Rainbow Zoo:


Favia:


Orange Crush (Ready for tips to turn orange):


Two of the helfrichi firefish:


Season's Greeting:


Green Slimer:


Setosa:


Red Dragon (Bad Photo):
 
Hey Dustin. I haven't posted in your thread in a while. The tank looks awesome! You need to update your tank info though. While I'm sure it will always be a work in progress it is now a functioning system. I would say your hard work has paid off.
 
laugh said:
Hey Dustin. I haven't posted in your thread in a while. The tank looks awesome! You need to update your tank info though. While I'm sure it will always be a work in progress it is now a functioning system. I would say your hard work has paid off.
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Glad to have you swing by. You're certainly right on my signature....Tank has only been "live" for two weeks tomorrow so I've been doing a different project each night.

Tonight I added a starry blenny and bi-color blenny to the DT as well as three pairs of clowns. They are not too happy with me so hope I can snap a few pictures this weekend.
 
I'm glad I found your thread, but having a hard time leaving it to get back to work. Your tank is out of this world!
 
Dustin1300 said:
They are threaded or barbed. It comes with Barbs/adapter for 1/2", 3/4", and 1". I've heard of threading issues but I did not have any issues with mine. I don't see ANY difference between a Speedwave and Waveline, just that the Speedwave is $60 cheaper.
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The threading issue is when you try to use a PVC fitting on the outlet side, but the threaded barb connections they supply work just fine. You can usually tell by looking at the threads on the outlet, you'll see one part where they're all offset from another thread by a fractional amount, for the life of me I don't know why that means their threaded nut works and PVC doesn't but it does :D

And yeah, Speedwave, Waveline, Diablo, etc etc... probably 4 or 5 brands that very obviously get all their pumps from the same Chinese factory that produces them.
 
Cashda said:
I'm glad I found your thread, but having a hard time leaving it to get back to work. Your tank is out of this world!
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Thanks and glad to you following along!




sfsuphysics said:
The threading issue is when you try to use a PVC fitting on the outlet side, but the threaded barb connections they supply work just fine. You can usually tell by looking at the threads on the outlet, you'll see one part where they're all offset from another thread by a fractional amount, for the life of me I don't know why that means their threaded nut works and PVC doesn't but it does :D

And yeah, Speedwave, Waveline, Diablo, etc etc... probably 4 or 5 brands that very obviously get all their pumps from the same Chinese factory that produces them.
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I used hard pvc plumbing on inlet and the provided barb on the threading for the outlet.
 
Just curious, want to poll the audience. What does everyone use for a good feed for their calcium reactor. Currently using a 1/4" tube on the inlet side of Eheim 1260.
 
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