BigBlueTang
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That's great growth! Good to see Josh! 
My humble SPS journey - Shallow 80g
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mhucasey
Acros & wieners, oh my!
Awesome job documenting what is going on in there- the mind can invent stuff that is happening or not happening but the camera is an unbiased witness. I'm happy things are improving for you!@Dom and Bulent, I'm thinking the clam might be a hybrid which is why I'm having a really hard time IDing it. I will try to get some photos of it this week and see what you all think, I tried to today but I've been sick and wore out quickly.
I have a small update for you guys, as well all know pictures speak louder than words so I wanted to show some comparison photos from my last update. I will try to get more soon when I feel better.
I am 100% convinced as of right now that things are on track and I'm seeing so much improvement day by day that I'm super happy with. Colors still have a lot of improving to do on all pieces, even my pink lemonade and SSC are both looking like crap color-wise; however they've had the best polyp extension I've ever seen and growth has been fine so I'm thinking it might just be them adjusting to the new parameters of the system? Whatever the case is, I'm not too worried.
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
Yeah I'll get multiple pictures of it as soon as I can, what I can tell you is the byssal opening is nothing like a crocea, it's more like a maxima; but then the clam shape itself is nothing like a maxima, it has me all confused. :lolspin:
That's great growth! Good to see Josh!
You've definitely got things heading in the right direction, the colour difference in those shots is really quite impressive mate
Thanks you guys, I really appreciate it! Hopefully I'll be able to do a few more comparison shots for you all.
SputnikNYC
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I got a question here, but please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make any points here, I'm trying to understand something. Now, when you comparing coral coloration on two pictures, shouldn't only coral color be different, not the rock in the background? Again, I'm just trying to understand something, trying to connect the dots [emoji23]
reefmutt
Active member
Lol!
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
lol
I got a question here, but please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make any points here, I'm trying to understand something. Now, when you comparing coral coloration on two pictures, shouldn't only coral color be different, not the rock in the background? Again, I'm just trying to understand something, trying to connect the dots [emoji23]
The rock coloration is slightly different in the first photo because my wrasses like to be jerks and stir up sand when I have the pumps off for a long period of time causing the water to get milky fast. Not much I can do about that. They really like to sabotage my attempt at taking photos for you guys, if you read back when I posted the original photo I even said I rushed things in the end so quality was sub par.
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markalot
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I got a question here, but please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make any points here, I'm trying to understand something. Now, when you comparing coral coloration on two pictures, shouldn't only coral color be different, not the rock in the background? Again, I'm just trying to understand something, trying to connect the dots [emoji23]
Both are low contrast, one lower than the other, and you can see the green increasing on the coralites. Other than that everything looks exactly the same color, just one has more of a white haze. It's funny, not sure if Josh was bothered by the question but for some reason I was.
reefmutt
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Both are low contrast, one lower than the other, and you can see the green increasing on the coralites. Other than that everything looks exactly the same color, just one has more of a white haze. It's funny, not sure if Josh was bothered by the question but for some reason I was.
Kinda irked me a bit, now that you mention it..
No biggy..
There's actuall new growth in the new pic, as well.
The whole upper right cluster has grown a small but noticeable amount.
Regardless of differences in the photos...
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
Maybe I'm naive and want to see the best in people but I don't think he was trying to imply anything. To me it was a fair question, there is clearly a white haze on the first photo, if you didn't know that it was a haze, you could wrongly assume that it was a color shift of some sort, again not necessarily intentional or shady but an inaccurate color change.
But just in case, I don't claim to be the best photographer and we all know colors of rock and coral can change due to numerous factors. Number of bulbs/lights running at that time, length of time they've been on that day, water clarity, sun shining in through nearby windows and numerous other ones I'm probably failing to think of right now. I usually only change the exposure of my photos when I edit them, my RGB values are saved and I don't mess with saturation or any of the other shady options at my disposal to make my corals look like something they're not. I don't think any of us are professional photographers, we do the best we can to share and that's it. That being said I think it would be hard to change a brown SPS frag to being colorful without some lengthy editing, and vice versa. Maybe there a trick I'm ignorant of but the color shift in the rocks isn't really large enough to make assumptions. Perhaps I'm bias.:hmm5:
Thanks you guys, really hope I can tale more photos for you all soon. I tried Wednesday and my wrasses started clouding up the water pretty quickly so I didn't get any photos I liked. I need to get a macro lens so it's easier to get crisp photos zoomed in. I discard dozens of failed attempts with my 18-55mm per photo I do post, and even then some are just me settling. Maybe I'll buy one next week, I shouldn't but I keep pushing it off. :wildone:
But just in case, I don't claim to be the best photographer and we all know colors of rock and coral can change due to numerous factors. Number of bulbs/lights running at that time, length of time they've been on that day, water clarity, sun shining in through nearby windows and numerous other ones I'm probably failing to think of right now. I usually only change the exposure of my photos when I edit them, my RGB values are saved and I don't mess with saturation or any of the other shady options at my disposal to make my corals look like something they're not. I don't think any of us are professional photographers, we do the best we can to share and that's it. That being said I think it would be hard to change a brown SPS frag to being colorful without some lengthy editing, and vice versa. Maybe there a trick I'm ignorant of but the color shift in the rocks isn't really large enough to make assumptions. Perhaps I'm bias.:hmm5:
Thanks you guys, really hope I can tale more photos for you all soon. I tried Wednesday and my wrasses started clouding up the water pretty quickly so I didn't get any photos I liked. I need to get a macro lens so it's easier to get crisp photos zoomed in.
I discard dozens of failed attempts with my 18-55mm per photo I do post, and even then some are just me settling. Maybe I'll buy one next week, I shouldn't but I keep pushing it off. :wildone:
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SputnikNYC
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Yeah, I guess there was a better way of putting my question together, I was implying to how both pics was shot for better understanding of the coral coloration. Definitely wasn't hinting at any photo editing... You can make picture darker, but you can't add color to it... Sorry if I offended anyone, totally didn't mean to [emoji850][emoji122]
markalot
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DiscusHeckel
Acropora Gardener
Growth is excellent.
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
Yeah, the red planet is blowing up in growth... what a weed. :celeb1: Thanks!
joshky
Acros & Wrasses
Two more photos to document changes/growth.
I lost quite a bit of this from accidental fragging, it's just kind of been hanging on after all of my drama. It's starting to recover nicely and show some growth/color again.
I believe this to be a frag of A. spathulata, it's never done well for me at all, the outer growth was always super stressed, polyps completely retracted, and color non-existent. Well it's finally doing something, color is coming in, polyps are starting to come out, and growth hopefully not far behind.
I lost quite a bit of this from accidental fragging, it's just kind of been hanging on after all of my drama. It's starting to recover nicely and show some growth/color again.
I believe this to be a frag of A. spathulata, it's never done well for me at all, the outer growth was always super stressed, polyps completely retracted, and color non-existent. Well it's finally doing something, color is coming in, polyps are starting to come out, and growth hopefully not far behind.
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