Dawn's seahorse garden!

[Michael Hoaster]

See the buttons on the top of the home page? Click 'MY RC'. Then, in the left column, see the 'Pictures & Albums' and click it. Bottom left click 'Add Album'. Name the album and click 'submit'. Next click 'Upload Pictures'. You'll see you have 3 buttons, 'Choose File'. Click the first to find and upload your first pic.

Before you can upload pics you need to make them ready for RC. You'll need some kind of photo editing application to make your pics 72 dpi and between 600-1000 pixels wide, for best results. Wide shots like FTSs get 1000 wide. Vertical shots get 600 pixels wide. Once you have them like that, you're ready to upload them.

So really, you'll prepare your pics first, then start the upload process.

Once you've got some pics in your first album, you're ready to add them to your next post. For this stage, I like to open two windows side by side. On the left window I've got my album, on the right window I have a new post ready to start. When you're ready to place a pic into your post, go back to your album and click on the pic you want. It shows the pic large, and below it you'll see 'Picture URL' and 'BB Code'. Select all of the BB Code and copy it. Make sure you get the whole code. Go back to your right window and your post, and paste it. This places your pic right where your cursor is. But you won't see the pic until you post your post, you'll just see the long code you copied and pasted. So now is a good time to write a caption, while you can still see the pic in the other window. Then go back to your album and pic another pic, copy the BB Code and paste it into your post again.

I think they allow a max of 10 pics per post.

Hope this helps! I'm not sure I explained it well. Let me know if you have questions.

 

[vlangel]

See the buttons on the top of the home page? Click 'MY RC'. Then, in the left column, see the 'Pictures & Albums' and click it. Bottom left click 'Add Album'. Name the album and click 'submit'. Next click 'Upload Pictures'. You'll see you have 3 buttons, 'Choose File'. Click the first to find and upload your first pic.

Before you can upload pics you need to make them ready for RC. You'll need some kind of photo editing application to make your pics 72 dpi and between 600-1000 pixels wide, for best results. Wide shots like FTSs get 1000 wide. Vertical shots get 600 pixels wide. Once you have them like that, you're ready to upload them.

So really, you'll prepare your pics first, then start the upload process.

Once you've got some pics in your first album, you're ready to add them to your next post. For this stage, I like to open two windows side by side. On the left window I've got my album, on the right window I have a new post ready to start. When you're ready to place a pic into your post, go back to your album and click on the pic you want. It shows the pic large, and below it you'll see 'Picture URL' and 'BB Code'. Select all of the BB Code and copy it. Make sure you get the whole code. Go back to your right window and your post, and paste it. This places your pic right where your cursor is. But you won't see the pic until you post your post, you'll just see the long code you copied and pasted. So now is a good time to write a caption, while you can still see the pic in the other window. Then go back to your album and pic another pic, copy the BB Code and paste it into your post again.

I think they allow a max of 10 pics per post.

Hope this helps! I'm not sure I explained it well. Let me know if you have questions.

Thank you very much Michael. I was reading RC's explanation too. I will give it a shot but that is a complicated process and all I have is an Android phone to do it through. If I can't figure it out I may just have to stick with posting links to my instagram acct. Its not the best solution but it is something.

BTW, my coral seem to be responding favorably to the gyre's new position. One plus is that the sand is not being trenched. The frogspawn is the only coral that appears to think that the flow is too aggressive. Perhaps I should move it. I will give it a bit longer to get used to the added flow.

I am reconciling with the gyre being vertical on the right side glass especially with my future plans when I connect to the basement sump. Directly behind the gyre is where someday I will put my DIY weir type overflow going into the sump. It will be a 2" diameter PVC pipe (painted black) so the gyre also being black will just blend in. Other than a return a the very surface of the water that will be the only equipment in the tank. Most of the viewing is from the livingroom which is left of the tank, so the right back corner is the most unobtrusive area to put equipment.

 

[Michael Hoaster]

You're welcome! I'd be happy to help more, just let me know.

I thought you had a tablet. I imagine it would be tough to do from a phone. But if you can get your pics processed and sized, the uploading process is not too difficult. It looks complicated at first, but if you follow those steps, one at a time, you'll get there. Then it becomes pretty easy.

Do a practice run and see how it goes.

 

[vlangel]

You're welcome! I'd be happy to help more, just let me know.

I thought you had a tablet. I imagine it would be tough to do from a phone. But if you can get your pics processed and sized, the uploading process is not too difficult. It looks complicated at first, but if you follow those steps, one at a time, you'll get there. Then it becomes pretty easy.

Do a practice run and see how it goes.

I did have an old 1st generation galaxy tablet until about a month ago. It was over 5 year old which is ancient in tablet years plus it saw a lot of use. I got my money's worth. The touch screen quit responding so now I am using my old samsung phone as a tablet. It kept dropping calls so it was no longer useful as a phone so I put the money in a new phone and use the old phone as a tablet, ha ha! I gotta cut corners somewhere to keep these fish tanks, LOL.:lolspin:

 

[vlangel]

https://youtu.be/3Pr3AkZLLxI
The tank is dirty again already but I decided to video anyway. You will get an idea how it looks with the gyre in a vertical position.

 

[Chasmodes]

Nice video Dawn! Looks fantastic to me!!!

 

[Michael Hoaster]

So much variety of life and colors! I also like how the gyre sits in the corner and out of the way. It's pretty impressive that you can keep such diversity in one tank. With all of the corals you have now, it must be challenging to keep everyone happy. But you do! No way I could do that.

 

[vlangel]

Nice video Dawn! Looks fantastic to me!!!

Thanks Kevin! I should have at least turned the sound down on the tv. I did not want to miss any of the Penguin hockey game so that truly was a quick and dirty video. Ooh, that sounds bad but you know what I mean.

 

[vlangel]

So much variety of life and colors! I also like how the gyre sits in the corner and out of the way. It's pretty impressive that you can keep such diversity in one tank. With all of the corals you have now, it must be challenging to keep everyone happy. But you do! No way I could do that.

The variety and color is what I am going for Michael. Keeping so much diversity is not really as difficult as you might think. I am choosing coral that can thrive in high nutrient water so its really just a matter of feeding heavy. Having 12 fish in there helps too I am sure. Keeping a diversity of macro algae is trickier than the coral for sure. The reds in my tank definitely want to outcompete the greens. Fortunately the seahorse tank can grow anything so when a macro fades away I get fresh recruits from the SH system. I have lost some macros completely like my blue octode. :facepalm:

 

[Michael Hoaster]

That's a good point about the corals you've chosen. Maybe it's not a hard as it seems. You're leading the way, with the reef/macro combo tank!

 

[vlangel]

That's a good point about the corals you've chosen. Maybe it's not a hard as it seems. You're leading the way, with the reef/macro combo tank!

I don't know about leading the way but I am trying to learn all I can and am happy to pass on any successes and hopefully warn folks where I have failed. LOL

 

[vlangel]

https://youtu.be/WjC2mS12weo
I know I just posted a video but now the tank is much cleaner plus I included the seahorses and their tank too.

 

[Chasmodes]

I love your vids, even with hockey in the background. I'm a hockey fan too, LOL, but, you probably don't want to hear the team that I cheer on!

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Nice. Your tanks look great!

That's funny, I noticed the same thing with my tank. I cleaned it up, took pics, and then noticed the water was much more clear the next day!

 

[vlangel]

I love your vids, even with hockey in the background. I'm a hockey fan too, LOL, but, you probably don't want to hear the team that I cheer on!

You are NOT a Capitals fan, are you?

 

[vlangel]

Nice. Your tanks look great!

That's funny, I noticed the same thing with my tank. I cleaned it up, took pics, and then noticed the water was much more clear the next day!

Ha ha, its amazing how that happens when you clean the glass!

 

[Chasmodes]

You are NOT a Capitals fan, are you?

I most certainly am! Rockin' the Red! :bounce2:

 

[vlangel]

I most certainly am! Rockin' the Red! :bounce2:

I will pray for you that you are healed! :thumbsup:

 

[vlangel]

I was using a magnifying glass to appreciate all the really tiny life in both the high nutrient 56 gallon macro algae/coral and the 30 gallon seahorse tanks. I was pleased to see just how many copepods are in both tanks.

The fuge of the seahorse tank must have a good abundance of breeding copepods for there to be so many on the glass. They really do not have any predators in the seahorse system though.

The 56g macro/coral tank is more surprising to have so many copepods. With the gobies and small blennies I would expect the predatation to have greatly diminished a population in that tank. Not so, it actually appears to have more copepods than the seahorse tank. No doubt all the rock and sand help a lot. The rubble rock area is probably helpful too. Someday when I hook this tank up to the fuge, I'd like to get a mandarin goby. I have tried them several times without success and ended up rehoming them to tanks that were much larger. I love having fat fish and I want the same for any mandies I get. Other than that, not much to report.

 

[Michael Hoaster]

Cool. I love using the magnifier to see stuff I don't normally see. There's so much! Isn't it nice to have a bunch of pods? I think they are more important ecosystem members than they're given credit for. Everyone focuses on their food value, but they help keep the tank clean too. They were instrumental in my winning battle with dinoflagellates.