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Very animated and informative.
Many thanks.
Many thanks.
HAHA, that made me laugh! As always, interesting stuff. Keep it up biggles!Rule 1. We don't talk about acro fight club..............
Thanks Bello
Very animated and informative.
Many thanks.
Awesome Biggles! I love the War Story! :uzi: Interesting stuff to see and hear about.
And of course the pictures are the best. So here's a photo challenge for you. Can your little micro iphoney lens accomplish a timelapse!?!? I for one would be interested in seeing a time lapse of small branch or tip grow out over a month or two. Hehehe. Lets see what skills that iphone arm appendage really has! ;-)
Super interesting stuff as usual and looking great!
HAHA, that made me laugh! As always, interesting stuff. Keep it up biggles!
I have read your whole thread and have been following along for the last few weeks. Great thread and tank!!! :thumbsup: Really amazing macro shots too for an iphone!
I ordered the same macro lens for my iphone, inspired by your thread. However, I can not take that good of macros being that you have to be like 1" (inch) away from the subject that your taking a picture of... Are you using it under water to get so close or are those just close to the glass of your tank?
Hi Biggles,
Have you ever used live food like rotifers to feed your sps corals?
I am seriously considering starting to culture my own rotifers along with copepods. I read that rotifers remain stable if they are cultured along with copepods. I do not know why this is the case though. Do you have any experience on the use of live food to share with us?
Moreover, having read your response to GB530's question on the limited range of iPhone macro lense, I have decided to shelve the idea of purchasing a macro lense.
Finally, What glue do you use to attach your corals to plates and/or rocks?
Thanks for the war explanation biggles, I want to discuss it further, but we don't talk about acro fight club
Really didn't know all of that, and a nice explanation with pics to boot
Awesome feeding macro too
Think my nutrients are getting kinda high, need to look into it now, before the corals get poopy
Thanks for the kind words mate, glad your following along as it's never boring on biggles atoll, all manner of misadventures befall the SPS during 'speriment' time.......
I use frags placed close to the glass as a focal range of 10-20mm is annoyingly limited. If i had a colony i wanted to show a macro of i'd simply snip a small branch tip off - 1/2" long will fill the screen btw. You simply glue it to the outside edge of a frag disc or whatever and place it up close to the glass and let it settle for a day then macro the you know what out of it. We're talking tiny pieces only and if you want you can just glue it back after you've finished or drop it in the branches where it'll fuse back onto the colony by itself.
Not SSC Bello but bloody pink, i must have forgotten to show you this one mate - bit like the ones you had hidden away............ Just remember who started this sneaky crap Bello........
I remember this piece.....isn't this the one you got about 4 months ago, placed on the left raft that looked like it had the same structure as the SSC? Still looks pretty good IMO.
Seems like you're going for the coral overhang look on the main raft, looks good
I'm getting a bit burnt out by the constant mucking around with the tank, taking a bit of break, and no more sneaky acro purchases , but nobody said anything about sneaky fish purchases, eh?
Thanks for the tips on getting a great shot biggles!.... Ill still be lurking around your thread so you may near from me in the future :lol:
What do you feed your yellow tang?
Marty
Nice play design coach! I think I got it...
So the delicate purple tipped acro comes out of the reef to set a pick on the yellow tang... This frees up the fluoro lime acro to swing up and send the blue polyped acro to the bench.
Go team, go!!! :bounce3:
Hehehehehehehehehe :fun2:
Lol Bello, close but not quite right. That's a piece of the red table that i chopped off the side when i first bought it so i could glue it where i wanted to. It was brown when i chopped it off and shows colors that the parent doesn't at the moment.
Many acros look better from the front or back perspective, i find most milli's and prostrata's are best pointed so they grow away from you towards the back of the tank as the inside branch colors are much more saturated than the outside, a bit like the top down perspective.
Oh, you fooled me . It's funny how sometimes the frags look completely different from the parent colonies, in terms of color.
Interesting note about the millies/prostrata. They're giving me maximum problems at the moment. I'm tempted enough to consider converting the drop off into a zeo tank, just to get these bastards to color up....but I've got too much flubber that I don't know what to do with also, so its on hold for now.
Your macro feeding experiments are pretty awesome, makes you realize how greedy the sps can be . Found it very interesting that they didn't quite enjoy the taste of detritus/poo.
And Troub, that was funny :lol:... Coach Biggles :lol:
I read on another thread your getting another tank. Any info yet?
Marty
Big,
I don't know if you have read this thread. It is an interesting read. But you might be able to find something like this in Australia.
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1965880
Marty
Every SPS tank i keep i always buy a fluoro hydnophora and at some stage it'll burn the crap out of one of my acros even though i think it's far enough away to be safe.......... it's a bit like when someone tells you a cattle fence is electrified and you touch it just to check - BAM ! hydno's are a bit like the fence, i know it's a nasty dangerous stinging bastard but i still need to touch it..........:debi: