A Splash of Color

[biggles]

Due to the lack loyalty...and the fact that you have around $20000 worth camera and lens (moose dollars are quite weak arent they? Unlike the real dollars) I expect much better pics posted on your thread mate. And a high quality video too.

PS you cant let Biggles show off better images with a fancy spancy toy phone compared to your DSLR.

And there it is.......... didn't take Sahin long to turn on you Matt
Nasty piece of work is our Sahin.........

Subscribed.

Thanks for still putting up with me Bulent

Andrew, you have a way with words mate. The frosty smurfcicle is looking great, even better with the lights out. Reminds me of an old girlfriend

I'm pretty much a literary genius is what you're saying mate.........:beer:

Sorry come to say hi late here. Is this old equipment set but a restart with new design? Any new equipment that I overlook here?

Looks good and what is your total fish number this time?

Hey Shih, it's just the same old boring tank tank and equipment as before mate. I have lost three fish to jumping in the last 8 weeks so i have 16 now i think. I'm not buying any more jumpy fish like wrasse until i sort the hood out.

Although I do love the idea of the peninsula, I can see where it would create some distinct challenges. Can't wait for the first FTS of your "new" tank. Awesome macros! My phone, as seen in my thread doesn't work out too well for me.

Hey mate, i could manage the peninsula i think if i had no sand ever, BB is super easy to maintain water quality and i actually think all new reefers should start their first tank BB until the first 3-6 months of nutrient related cycles passes.
There's not really anything new about the tank other than i now have pumps on the back wall, all very boring really lol.

How do you like the Lumia 1020? Am going to upgrade soon and have really been looking at WP as an option.

Sahin... Since this is a hard number to divide into 12, we should round up to 14 per week or 2 per day. Don't want to hurt Buggle's head doing the math on 12/7...

For obvious reasons i can't comment on the Nokia's phone related features other than to say that it is still way ahead of any other camera including my new iphone.

Beautiful

Thanks very much Steven

This is my mates dog Manny. I get to babysit Manny sometimes and we are good buddies. I called to him so he'd look at me for the pic but he shoved his nose into the couch and refused to co-operate. Just prior to settling down on the couch we had been out throwing a tennis ball in the paddock across the road until a pair of magpies started swooping Manny. He was pretty freaked out by his first encounter with nesting magpies and ran towards me.......... at this point i started running away from Manny the magpie magnet and yelling at him to get away from me........
After about 100 yrds the magpies left us alone but the damage was done.........

Dogs know when you betray them............ took half a bag of doggy chew treats to win him back over. He's part Kelpie so he tries to herd people and has that crazy stare that working dogs use on sheep to intimidate them. He wears a security guard dog jumper my mates partner bought for him when it's cold out............. my mate cops a lot of ridicule over that little gem of an idea his girlfriend had.

 

[markalot]

Nice dog, well the backside anyway. You sure he wasn't mooning you?

I love herding dogs, so smart ... at least they appear smart. We ended up with pappillons; french royalty dogs. Yea ... they are good at being docile and retreating when scared. I wanted a beagle.

Maybe those greenish polyps will show better color once it's been in captivity a while. Skin looks fantastic.

 

[biggles]

Dogs are cool

I've had that acro about 8 months so i'm not too hopeful unless it shoots new growth all over which is blue and fluoro rather than just at the edges. I don't hate it but the fact it's pretty shaggy during lights on aggravates the issue Mark. :hammer:

 

[braaap]

Wow. Love the minimal rockwork. Very nice

 

[bibarassa]

Andrew, I'd like to see the acrylic base"¦.

 

[pstank1]

If I were a dog and my owner made me wear a dog hoodie like that, I think I'd be putting my bum in the face of all the humans near me as well.

I wonder, do they have moose sized hoodies for our Canadian friends? After watching a video of two Moose (mooses? meese? I think meese would be appropriate since more than one goose is referred to as geese and we're only one letter off) fighting in someones driveway on CNN, I would not be willing to try that. They followed it up with two 'roos fighting in the street, and I'm sad to say it had nothing on the moose fight.

 

[M007]

If I were a dog and my owner made me wear a dog hoodie like that, I think I'd be putting my bum in the face of all the humans near me as well.

I wonder, do they have moose sized hoodies for our Canadian friends? After watching a video of two Moose (mooses? meese? I think meese would be appropriate since more than one goose is referred to as geese and we're only one letter off) fighting in someones driveway on CNN, I would not be willing to try that. They followed it up with two 'roos fighting in the street, and I'm sad to say it had nothing on the moose fight.

:hmm4: :celeb1: :debi: :headwalls: and to conclude :facepalm:

 

[bobssecrtsn]

Biggles, you my friend, have some impressive phone capturing skills.


does Australia have better phones then the U.S?

Obama must be hiding it..

 

[cugly]

I will take the ugly acro from you buddy send it here.

 

[Usernam Invalid]

Have been lurking you threads for awhile now and have to say I admire your approach to reefing. I can only hope to achieve this level of success.

 

[sahin]

Thats a very nice looking acro Andrew...at least the polyps arent brown.

 

[glaukos]

Have a night time SSC pic Matt, pics of acros always make things better i find mate :beer:

Heyyyy i just saw the new thread
Loved the fts but the SSC night pic is crazy andrew:eek1:

 

[martinphillip03]

French dogs, good at retreating. LMAO

Marty

Nice dog, well the backside anyway. You sure he wasn't mooning you?

I love herding dogs, so smart ... at least they appear smart. We ended up with pappillons; french royalty dogs. Yea ... they are good at being docile and retreating when scared. I wanted a beagle.

Maybe those greenish polyps will show better color once it's been in captivity a while. Skin looks fantastic.

 

[sahin]

Andrew, hope you are well. How's the tank matey? Since you have a much larger tank, I forgot, are you now running a calcium reactor or still running two part?

 

[troubadour11]

I don't use any magnet mounts now but i have. Just about every covered magnet will fail over time but the Tunze pump magnets are uncovered ceramic and safe in the water so there is nothing to fail......... use those and you won't have anything to stress about down the track buddy.
As to your question about pigments - it's not thin tissue it's unsaturated pigmentation which gives the appearance of the tissue looking thin. Lots of people mistake poor saturation for 'thin tissue'. I'll have a ramble for you in the new journal if that's ok mate.

Hey there. I found the new thread/old tank :smokin:

Thanks for the info. I'll look into the magnet info. I have a really feisty coral that I'd like to suspend in its own area above the sand bed where it can't reach other pieces. But I need a mag that can have 1 end of branch rock affixed to it with the other end testing on a rock tower. But the general trick then is to look for ceramic magnets to be safe?

I'm also still highly interested in your "thin tissue" vs unsaturated pigmentation thoughts. I seem to be getting good polyp coloration on my sps. But only my Pink Monti-Cap and Pink Setosa have great saturated skin pigmentation. Everything else is only slightly colored or white/pale/thin looking. For example, super green Bali green slimmer polyps with mostly white skin with a little reddish hue. Or super orange digital polyps, but has lost the purple color on the skin and is more white looking now.

But everything is entrusting, growing on the tips, or both. We'll, except Milli's... which I like and have yet to keep one alive!:furious:

So I'm trying to figure out if it's more a lighting kind of thing or something with water chemistry. But my Alk is kept stable around 7.8-8.0. Mg kept 1370-1400. Ca typically around 420ish or above. PO4 bounces around a little between not registering and very low on my Hanna ULR meter (I typically try to keep P04 barely registering on hULR). But the fudge has some nuisance algae in it, but not over run.

My gut instinct is saying I might not be hitting the sps with enough par to color up the skin. But enough to get growth and colored polyps.?.?

Since you always have such great color saturation on the skin of your acros, I'm curious to know your biggles ramble diagnosis for growing white sticks with colorful polyps... :beer::eek2:

 

[biggles]

Wow. Love the minimal rockwork. Very nice

Thank you mate.

Andrew, I'd like to see the acrylic base"¦.

It's under Potatohead and his new buddy...........

If I were a dog and my owner made me wear a dog hoodie like that, I think I'd be putting my bum in the face of all the humans near me as well.

I wonder, do they have moose sized hoodies for our Canadian friends? After watching a video of two Moose (mooses? meese? I think meese would be appropriate since more than one goose is referred to as geese and we're only one letter off) fighting in someones driveway on CNN, I would not be willing to try that. They followed it up with two 'roos fighting in the street, and I'm sad to say it had nothing on the moose fight.

I say we go with meese mate............ :thumbsup:

....and to conclude :facepalm:

Let's drop the meese talk before it gets out of hand. What other animals do you have in Canada and are they as silly looking as meese.......:reading:

Biggles, you my friend, have some impressive phone capturing skills.


does Australia have better phones then the U.S?

Obama must be hiding it..

Thanks Bob, Aus has better everything than the U.S mate............:beer:

I will take the ugly acro from you buddy send it here.

The acro is pretty Dan, it's just the polyps i dislike mate.

Have been lurking you threads for awhile now and have to say I admire your approach to reefing. I can only hope to achieve this level of success.

Thanks for dropping by mate

 

[bibarassa]

Andrew, that buddy comes from your new frog-frag tank........................very interesting.....never seen before

 

[biggles]

Thats a very nice looking acro Andrew...at least the polyps arent brown.

Dirty olive green is as good as brown in my books mate......

Heyyyy i just saw the new thread
Loved the fts but the SSC night pic is crazy andrew

Hey Mike, any SSC photographs well at night with a flash

French dogs, good at retreating. LMAO

Marty

You're a bad man Marty lol..........

Andrew, hope you are well. How's the tank matey? Since you have a much larger tank, I forgot, are you now running a calcium reactor or still running two part?

Hey buddy, mom came down for a visit a few weeks back and ended up in hospital for a week with her heart and then i made her stay with me for a week after so that's why i haven't been around a lot recently. She's all better and i need to clean up the neglected display.........
I still drip alk via a plastic jug and airline.

Hey there. I found the new thread/old tank :smokin:

Thanks for the info. I'll look into the magnet info. I have a really feisty coral that I'd like to suspend in its own area above the sand bed where it can't reach other pieces. But I need a mag that can have 1 end of branch rock affixed to it with the other end testing on a rock tower. But the general trick then is to look for ceramic magnets to be safe?

I'm also still highly interested in your "thin tissue" vs unsaturated pigmentation thoughts. I seem to be getting good polyp coloration on my sps. But only my Pink Monti-Cap and Pink Setosa have great saturated skin pigmentation. Everything else is only slightly colored or white/pale/thin looking. For example, super green Bali green slimmer polyps with mostly white skin with a little reddish hue. Or super orange digital polyps, but has lost the purple color on the skin and is more white looking now.

But everything is entrusting, growing on the tips, or both. We'll, except Milli's... which I like and have yet to keep one alive!

So I'm trying to figure out if it's more a lighting kind of thing or something with water chemistry. But my Alk is kept stable around 7.8-8.0. Mg kept 1370-1400. Ca typically around 420ish or above. PO4 bounces around a little between not registering and very low on my Hanna ULR meter (I typically try to keep P04 barely registering on hULR). But the fudge has some nuisance algae in it, but not over run.

My gut instinct is saying I might not be hitting the sps with enough par to color up the skin. But enough to get growth and colored polyps.?.?

Since you always have such great color saturation on the skin of your acros, I'm curious to know your biggles ramble diagnosis for growing white sticks with colorful polyps...

Ceramic magnets are the go mate.

I need to reply to your PM but in short if your acros are growing fast but look like blah then you simply have the spectrum wrong whilst everything else such as water and available acro food/nutrients is pretty much spot on. Give your acros the spectrum they'd receive at say 30mtrs deep but at a PAR level more like at 10mtrs.......... lots of intense blue light - 400W Radium

This is what happens when i take pics of the yellow trolls hangout. He comes running.........

In full great yellow shark mode.

Giving me a filthy look.

Charging at me when i began to stand up.

I am going to video Dom trying to cut frags from the yellow pointer's lair - i think we'll all enjoy watching that.

 

[glaukos]

For some unknown reason yellow tangs where never one of my favorite fish but i really enjoyed those pics mate:beer:
He looks fat,healthy and nicely colored!
Cool pics mate,thanks for sharing!

 

[nemodan]

Nice to hear that your mother is doing fine.

My yellow tang, every time I seat in front of the tank to take coral pictures he came and stands in front of the camera. I though that he was trying to say me" hey here I am , prettier than those corals, take pictures of me and forget the others " . Could be he has a different actitud in mind ?

LOL
Cheers
Daniel