Learning/rebuilding from my epic fail
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joshky
Acros & Wrasses
Fully agree, your photography and acros are looking great. I need to grab a macro lens soon.... :facepalm:
reefmutt
Active member
Thanks Josh.
I get my most crisp and clear images from my 100 mm macro.
After that my best images come from my 15-85 because it allows fairly close focusing.
I have a 24-105 which doesn't focus close enough for me to stick it in my viewing box..
I'm thinking of going on kijiji and looking for a canon 65 mm macro. It'll allow me to get close but since it's not as long a lens, I'll be able to capture more coral in the image than with the 100..
I've purchased most of my lenses from kijiji and never had a problem..
I get my most crisp and clear images from my 100 mm macro.
After that my best images come from my 15-85 because it allows fairly close focusing.
I have a 24-105 which doesn't focus close enough for me to stick it in my viewing box..
I'm thinking of going on kijiji and looking for a canon 65 mm macro. It'll allow me to get close but since it's not as long a lens, I'll be able to capture more coral in the image than with the 100..
I've purchased most of my lenses from kijiji and never had a problem..
biggles
Premium Member
This was called Badabing by Raja. It is that new ssc type Aussie coral that has just started to make it over here. I'm sure Andrew has a football sized colony of this that he got for 1/4 the price I paid for my pinky sized piece. If it colours up the way it should, it'll be money well spent..
I don't have anything that looks like that Matt, is that the color it keeps or what's it supposed to look like. That doesn't like very bingy to me so what's the go...........
I promise not to ask Dave to get it for me if it's super sweet, i'm just asking about it out of curiosity that's all buddy
reefmutt
Active member
Raja is nice to me sometimes.
I'm pretty sure you have it and it looks the way it does when it hasn't been in a plastic bag for days, travelled thousands of miles and then been chopped up..I don't have anything that looks like that Matt, is that the color it keeps or what's it supposed to look like. That doesn't like very bingy to me so what's the go...........
I promise not to ask Dave to get it for me if it's super sweet, i'm just asking about it out of curiosity that's all buddy
http://www.creativesoup.com/#!Diving-the-Great-Barrier-Reef-Badabing/cgm9/56400eba0cf2708e00115bfa
Cool read..
I can only assume that these guys are Dave's roommates or something...
Thanks Dan!
M007
Acro Whore
renevilleneuve
New member
Thanks for the inspiration. Maybe one day I'll have a fraction of your success.
reefmutt
Active member
Thanks, sahin! I'm hoping to soon see some or your excellent photography and fantastic looking corals. How is the new, new light performing for you?
We'll see how Darrh Acro feels about these.... Not super colourful but at least he doesn't have one!!!
Thanks, March, here's the PL from you:
It's been spreading out forever. It's a little lower than the other one but the colour is pretty much identical. Love this coral! It's probably the closest thing to yellow I have in the tank..
Now, if I could get the colour out of my pink matrix that you get, I'd be one happy camper.. I'm just not getting the pink..
This is the best I can pull out of my scorpion at the moment.... Not very impressive..
I think yellows really need low nutrients to come out properly.. Otherwise the end up green..
Because u starve your fish March
I'm up to 14 cubes of frozen food a day... March? What are you adding??Thanks, Rene, you'll get there! One step at a time.
This appeared out of the blue about 5 days ago. I noticed what looked like a discoloration in the coral one night and the next morning it looked like this..
This area is now bone white but hasn't moved at all. It's as if a drop of acid landed in the coral and burned this patch. Since then it hasn't moved..
I went back to see the last shot I took of this coral and it was about 2 months ago..
It had much darker and more solid coloration.
I checked nutrient and n was at 5ppm and p was at .1
That spot appeared two days after I started dosing a Carbon source but n had already been down below 1ppm for over a month. It looked way better back them..
I'm going to really try to get my n back up closer to 5ish ppm..
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DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Hi Matt,
Is this red dragon acro? It looks really nice.
Mine is being delivered tomorrow, but it is only 3 cm. :lmao:
reefmutt
Active member
Hey Mark, I guess it is possible but that coral is 3 inches off the bottom of a 26 inch high tank.. And there's lots of flow around there.. It would have had to be a pretty big chunk and I don't really have that much salt creep... But based on how the spot looks now, the outline is so well defined, it certainly is a plausible explanation..
I hope so. I'd rather that than some bacterial infection.
I've upped my lugols addition from 3 drops/day to 4 and I'm pumping in the cano3 and kno3 to raise n a bit.. With the np pro, it's requiring a lot of no3..
mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
I had something similar happen with one of the corals, that's what I ended up chalking it up to- since it was in the middle of the coral and didn't spread I figure something landed on that spot. The coral is growing back over it.
Awesome Red Dragon!!!
reefmutt
Active member
I've been watching for regrowth.. None yet but it is a bit soon.
Yeah, the red dragon actually responded quite well to the np pro dosing.. It has really nice pe at the moment which I really only noticed after starting the np pro.. I admit, it is entirely possible that the pe was there before but I just didn't take notice. Whenever you start adding something new to the tank, you start looking just a little bit closer for clues to whether it is having a positive or negative effect..
I found that besides the pe on the red dragon and the spot on that lokani, the tank didn't really react one way or the other..
And I have my doubts if either the spot or the pe have any relation to the np pro..
Yeah, the red dragon actually responded quite well to the np pro dosing.. It has really nice pe at the moment which I really only noticed after starting the np pro.. I admit, it is entirely possible that the pe was there before but I just didn't take notice. Whenever you start adding something new to the tank, you start looking just a little bit closer for clues to whether it is having a positive or negative effect..
I found that besides the pe on the red dragon and the spot on that lokani, the tank didn't really react one way or the other..
And I have my doubts if either the spot or the pe have any relation to the np pro..
reefmutt
Active member
Darth Acro:
Ha! Well, I suspect that Darth Acro doesn't feel particularly threatened by that dragon...
