Macro macro pictures

tektite

tektite

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Had some fun with my new macro lens :) Not always the best pics as I was just handholding the camera and playing with settings for the first time, but got a few nice ones.

Encrusting blue iridescent codium


Red grape macroalgae


Encrusting blue iridescent codium


String of Pearls macroalgae


Branching coraline algae


Red macroalgae


Purple branching macroalgae


Iridescent macroalgae


Red macroalgae
 
Iridescent macroalgae


Halimeda / string of pearls macroalgae



Red grape (botrocladia) macro


Iridescent macroalgae


DIBS turbo snail eggs on macroalgae


Dragon's tongue Halymenia
 
very nice pictures, these macro^2 shots sure can compete with the sps shots on this forum! i could have never imagined that there are macro algaes with colors and shapes like this... thats what i love about reefing, it lets you discover the greatest things never imagined before!

thanks for this!
 
Thanks everyone, I've been fascinated with macroalgae ever since I started my first tank with TBS liverock and got a few cool ones as hitchhikers. I have most of them in my main macroalgae tank, a few others in a small 40 breeder that houses some macros, gorgs, and a pair of onyx clowns.
 
I'm doing a full starphire tank refugium display with a collection of Macro-Algae. Its going to be a 75 G with mud and two kinds of sand and aragonite ; seahorses on one side and on the other side of the divider; Anglers, scorpion fish and filefish. I just hope i'm as lucky as you with my collection. Great show.:thumbsup:
 
Just FYI, something I've found out, a lot of macros prefer medium to high flow. Some need it. Keep that in mind when making your selections with the seahorse side needing low flow.
 
tektite said:
Just FYI, something I've found out, a lot of macros prefer medium to high flow. Some need it. Keep that in mind when making your selections with the seahorse side needing low flow.
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Yes good point; i'm planning on having a tunze 6055 with variable flows and at least twice a day a simulation of the tide and strong currents will blow in the tank to stir things up. Saw that in a German vid for heavy planted tanks. Did you have mud in your tank?
 
+1 on the codium and an FTS! Codium lucasii is one of my favorite macros. That sparkly blue-green is just addictive.

Gorgeous collection of macros. What are some of your other iridescent species called?

About the seahorses, variable flow will be good. They love a strong current to play in, but need some areas of low flow to rest when play time is over. What species do you intend to get?
 
JLynn said:
+1 on the codium and an FTS! Codium lucasii is one of my favorite macros. That sparkly blue-green is just addictive.

Gorgeous collection of macros. What are some of your other iridescent species called?

About the seahorses, variable flow will be good. They love a strong current to play in, but need some areas of low flow to rest when play time is over. What species do you intend to get?
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Yes I know I had a tank of them before, they love a bubble stone actually they dance in it holding tails lol. Hippocampus erectus I'm no expert so I keep it simple. I just love their movement and attitude. The flow will be arranged for them, the tank is set up for their needs, with schedule feeding pauses , tide simulation strong and low flow periods 75 % of the time. Feeding several time a day. How many time do , you feed them I did 9 time a day the last time.
 
Hey cat, when you get a chance, i need some of this
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and this

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