For your eyes only...

[aqua80]

Beautiful!! I just bought my first little sps frag and I am like a hen with her first chick. You give me hope!!

Thanks ! That's the fun part, new frags and watching them grow and changing color and form

Great Pics and sweet choices of coral! You have great taste! Chef!

Impressive shots. Beautiful corals.

Great pics!

All i can say is pure awesomeness.

Pics look awesome.

^ many Thanks !

people always credit the camera when they see a nice picture...im sure the man behind the camera plays a bigger role in producing these very nice pictures!

Thanks ! you can certainly make bad pics with a good camera, but it's true it is difficult to do macro shots with a point and shoot camera !

great picture aqua80....and really great acros...do you know what append to our site ?? problem with reefaction ???? ah yess....see your RC private message ! thank you

Thanks ! yes local forum is down and I don't know why... mp answered

 

[Thairun]

Wow! that is one kind of shots. Love the macro shots of your sps as well as your zoas infact. I am sps and zoas lover. Any FTS to admire other gems there....

 

[aqua80]

Wow! that is one kind of shots. Love the macro shots of your sps as well as your zoas infact. I am sps and zoas lover. Any FTS to admire other gems there....

thanks
Most SPS have been in tank for least than 3 months, and in the last month I've redone my aquascape a bit so FTS is not that great, but here it is anyway !

front :

side :

 

[sahin]

Haha, many thanks for doing this thread. Wow, those are exellent macro shots. You have an amazing collection of SPS. I must say most of those I'm after! :spin3:

Nice tank. This will look super in a year or so.

What do you utilise for nutrient reduction?

 

[aqua80]

Haha, many thanks for doing this thread. Wow, those are exellent macro shots. You have an amazing collection of SPS. I must say most of those I'm after! :spin3:

Nice tank. This will look super in a year or so.

What do you utilise for nutrient reduction?

Thanks Sahin !

for nutrient export I use a large skimmer, 1/3 cup GFO changed q 6 weeks, carbon run passively in the sump changed q 4-6 weeks, about 20% water change every month (including continuous water change with dosing pump, 24x/day 100 ml or about 0.6g per day)

also my red turf algae that I have on almost every rock is also helping my water clean

finally I have some cheato/red macro algae in the sump but I harvest very small quantity each 2-3 months...

 

[CUZ]

Great pics!!

 

[madkeenreefer]

Nice photo work Aqua, the new aquascape looks great!

Nice tank. This will look super in a year or so

I agree, but in person this tank already looks sick in a year it will be malade!!

 

[96p993]

Hey aqua80, I have the same DSLR and Avast look down...Im looking for a macro lens, which 100mm are you using? I am wanting to ask you some white balance questions but that will be later...

Thanks

 

[aqua80]

Great pics!!

Nice photo work Aqua, the new aquascape looks great!

thanks !

Hey aqua80, I have the same DSLR and Avast look down...Im looking for a macro lens, which 100mm are you using? I am wanting to ask you some white balance questions but that will be later...

Thanks

I have the pentaxD-FA 100mm f2.8 lens
http://www.pentaximaging.com/camera-lenses/smc_PENTAX_D_FA_100mm_F2.8_Macro

for white balance for now I select the cloudy settings and fine tune it later with aperture (mac kind of photoshop program) but this is a new camera for me since 2 weeks so still learning... (had the 200d before)

 

[bobkill]

Nice shots

 

[blakers82]

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

 

[guc32]

Great pics indeed!!! Thanks for sharing.

Lots of pieces I would love to add to my tank.

Were most grown from little frags?

 

[tandldel]

Beautiful shots and tank..Is there a build thread to reference on you tank?

 

[aqua80]

Nice shots

Nice work. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks !

Great pics indeed!!! Thanks for sharing.

Lots of pieces I would love to add to my tank.

Were most grown from little frags?

Yes ! I bought only 3 mini colonies : a.nana, millepora pink/blue and the simplex (or fenneri)

Beautiful shots and tank..Is there a build thread to reference on you tank?

not on reef central ! my build thread is on our local forum (and in french )

 

[mess7777]

aqua80, nice tank!! Fellow QC resident here. I am a pesky anglo that has found my way into your city

Would love to see it in person some time and drool a bit!

 

[R@ck78]

Awesome shots! Do you run bio-pellets? How high do you have your PM over your tank?


Thanks
Mark-

 

[aqua80]

aqua80, nice tank!! Fellow QC resident here. I am a pesky anglo that has found my way into your city

Would love to see it in person some time and drool a bit!

haha no problem ! maybe some frag swap if you have niece pieces

Awesome shots! Do you run bio-pellets? How high do you have your PM over your tank?
Thanks
Mark-

Thanks Mark,
no biopellets and my PM is about 8" above water surface

Probably the best aquarium photography ive seen :thumbsup:

Thanks ! but you've got to search more on this forum then ! so many great pics of great corals

 

[Stuginski]

Great pics!

Hails from Brazil

D.

 

[aqua80]

Great pics!

Hails from Brazil

D.

Thanks !

Some other shots from tonight :

 

[aqua80]

summer is ending... interest in my tank is rising up again so here are some other pics !

granulosa :

red-planet similar :

nice millepora :