How to keep an Idiot busy...150DD
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Useful_Idiot
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very nice, im a fan
Thanks. When I set up a tank again In a few years I'm just gonna hire you to help with the aquascape. Seriously.
Thanks. I'm using the cannon powershot d10. Awesome camera and great for learning. It's fully waterproof so I can get any angle. The white balance has a underwater setting that can handle a lot of blue led light and still make it look like it does in person. It has a macro setting that works great although I'll never get shots like Scott or esshoes. I'm definitely still learning and between the settings on the camera, % of the AI's and having the t5's on or off makes a big difference. I figured out a couple weeks ago I can shoot video in the macro setting. I'll just have to figure out how to load and post it. It's just a really easy to use camera, idiotproof if you will. One thing that the camera will never get though is the depth of the tank. Everyone who has seen it comments on that immediately. Seeing a empty tank that deep at a shop isn't the same. I have been keeping regular shaped tanks for 10+ years and it was so foreign to have one so deep.
And I finally made it to exotic in milford yesterday and there was a golden torch there. And of course it was already sold and not available. Nice shop though lots of stuff. I picked up a blue tuxedo urchin and if he eats this red algea I'll stop the algaefix. 7 doses and not a big difference yet.
Useful_Idiot
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Quick update
Quick update
So I have been running Rox8 carbon for months now but only at a trickle so it wouldn't tumble. I read that if you reverse the flow through a reactor it won't tumble and I was able to really clean my water. So much so that my monti's turned pale then gray and almost completely died before I figured out what the problem was. I couldn't figure it out right away because I am constantly changing things in my system and didn't know which change was the problem. I think I'm gonna leave things alone for awhile:headwallblue:. I also was lucky enough to see my starfish spawning so here's some pics.
Dendros, I love em under dim white lights
Quick update
So I have been running Rox8 carbon for months now but only at a trickle so it wouldn't tumble. I read that if you reverse the flow through a reactor it won't tumble and I was able to really clean my water. So much so that my monti's turned pale then gray and almost completely died before I figured out what the problem was. I couldn't figure it out right away because I am constantly changing things in my system and didn't know which change was the problem. I think I'm gonna leave things alone for awhile:headwallblue:. I also was lucky enough to see my starfish spawning so here's some pics.
Dendros, I love em under dim white lights
Useful_Idiot
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Krazy_Karl
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Awesome picks! Tank looks great Patrick!
Useful_Idiot
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Wild piece hope this turns out like pearl berry
BubbaBoBobBrain
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Wow! The tank is looking great Pat. Keep them pics coming
Useful_Idiot
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Sweet piece thank you both
My palmers milli a decent blue from above but my most difficult piece to color up.
Useful_Idiot
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Krazy_Karl
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Sweet!
Useful_Idiot
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Thanks Bob, wish I could update this more often but it just doesn't happen.
Thanks, I feel better about it now that it's filling in.
swannyson7
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The tank looks great Patrick! And those are some great pics as well! :eek1:
muppet
Misanthrope
Patrick's tank is my favorite among all of the club member tanks I've seen. It's really just a fantastic piece of work not only in the tank and components he selected, but in how he engineered the whole thing. It's a very well thought out and implemented setup, and beautiful too.
sassAwrasse
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some beautiful photos. great tank.
firstlight10
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Nice tank and photos.
Useful_Idiot
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Thank you, I've had that for 2 years now. I think it'd be bigger if I hadn't moved it around so often. Not for nothing but Scott's I like Scott's blue prostrata better. Very similar but it seems to have less brown in it. Or maybe it's just his tank lol.
Thanks Scott, as you know it takes a lot of pics to get good ones. I'll have to work on my fish pics they never come out as good as yours.
Thank you for the kind words, it took me months to decide on equipment. It got to the point where my wife was telling me to hurry up and transfer. You should come by sometime and see it again.
Thankyou
Thanks, I feel like I get the lps pics pretty good but some of the sps I just can't capture. A nice bonus for those like you that stop by though.
Thankyou
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