"Bonsai Reef" (SPS style)
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tmc1313
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Wow, Thanks for such a great compliment!
LOL, thanks. I have had a little time to tinker around with it. I'll try and take some macros tonight and post in the morning. I've gotten a few new pieces I want to show. A word of warning though, I can guarantee my photos are not going to look half as good as yours. I've been following your thread, and your pictures are incredible. I'm still waiting for that FTS of yours. I'm sure if it looks anything like your photos it's going to be awesome.
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tmc1313
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Thank you
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So I've been trying to teach myself to take some macro shots. So far it's been rough, but I think I'm getting better. Here are some shots I've taken of a couple new pieces I recently added and some not so new. They aren't great, so please forgive me. I am no photographer, that's for certain:
Pink Birdsnest
Unknown Acro (but great polyp extension)
My bicolor monti cap (hoping it swirls together)
Blue tort
Unknown acro (it's actually a little greener and is getting rose colored polyps)
Ice Fire echinata (forgive the bleached stylo in the back, it's coming back slowly from the move)
Pearlberry (my favorite)
Monti Setosa
Pink Birdsnest
Unknown Acro (but great polyp extension)
My bicolor monti cap (hoping it swirls together)
Blue tort
Unknown acro (it's actually a little greener and is getting rose colored polyps)
Ice Fire echinata (forgive the bleached stylo in the back, it's coming back slowly from the move)
Pearlberry (my favorite)
Monti Setosa
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Reefflapper
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Very good pics w/your macro lens
tmc1313
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Thanks, they are my the first macros I've ever taken. I'm hoping they will get better in future postings. Definitely a learning experience.
Thanks, I don't run ULNS or Zeo. So far my tank just looks like it runs this way. I've been trying to "dirty" up the tank a little by extending periods between water changes and feeding more. I prefer darker coral colors, but seem to always end up with pastel looking ones. I'll just have to wait it out and see.
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Thanks Kevin, and thanks for the advice! I'm still not quite there yet, but I'll keep at it. I'm still having a lot of trouble photographing some of the deeper blue corals I have. I can't seem to get them to come out looking accurate. My tank does look like a zeo tank at the moment, but it's not the look I prefer. Most of my colors are light and every time I add a something new with darker colors it will lighten up within a month. My phos is .04, so I think that's good. I'm pretty sure my problem lies with no detectable nitrate using the Salifert test. I've been trying to raise them a little bit, but it doesn't seem that easy. My lighting is full lights for 7 hours and 9 hours total using sunrise and sunset mode on my dimmable ATI fixture.
tmc1313
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Time for my 3 month update:
What's changed? Well, I couldn't leave well enough alone and switched to all LEDs cold turkey. I figured some of the coral were already browned out from all the instability I've put them through so I might as well change the lighting and have them start acclimating to the leds. So far so good, I'm getting great polyp extension and colors are still slowly improving. Most browned out SPS are showing color on the new growth (I'm taking that as a good sign), I haven't had any bleaching and I'm also getting a lot of encrusting at the base of everything. So here are a few updated photos:
What did I switch to?
AI Hydras (4 units)
Here is how they look over the tank:
And a few full tank shots:
What's changed? Well, I couldn't leave well enough alone and switched to all LEDs cold turkey. I figured some of the coral were already browned out from all the instability I've put them through so I might as well change the lighting and have them start acclimating to the leds. So far so good, I'm getting great polyp extension and colors are still slowly improving. Most browned out SPS are showing color on the new growth (I'm taking that as a good sign), I haven't had any bleaching and I'm also getting a lot of encrusting at the base of everything. So here are a few updated photos:
What did I switch to?
AI Hydras (4 units)
Here is how they look over the tank:
And a few full tank shots:
tmc1313
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Thanks!
Thanks, I'm running them @:
Red = 20%
White = 45%
UV = 70%
Green = 75%
Violet = 80%
DB = 85%
RB = 90%
trueblackpercula
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Your tank is truly amazing outstanding work thank you for the insperation as I needed that.
tmc1313
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Thanks so much! And thank you for such a great compliment.
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