My Very Shallow Reef Tank Re Do

Same biological system, just more water, right?
Should be seamless..
You could do a couple waterchanges and put the old water into the new tank.. then, just fill up the rest with new mixed water. I bet the system won't notice.
 
reefmutt said:
Same biological system, just more water, right?
Should be seamless..
You could do a couple waterchanges and put the old water into the new tank.. then, just fill up the rest with new mixed water. I bet the system won't notice.
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Great minds think alike. Been doing that these last couple water changes. It just got notified that the gentleman doing my plumbing and bringing the water and new pumps will have to delay until the next weekend. Suspense is killing me.
 
kevlow said:
Great minds think alike. Been doing that these last couple water changes. It just got notified that the gentleman doing my plumbing and bringing the water and new pumps will have to delay until the next weekend. Suspense is killing me.
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Boo!! :(
Oh well, it's only a week..
 
A little comparison of orange camera filter versus unfiltered. I can not decide which is better. Any thoughts or other opinions?
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Just an orange filter shot of a Blue Tenuis
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An unfiltered Perry's Planet and a purple acro with whiteish polyps.
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reefmutt said:
Which is closer to reality?
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The red of the Red Planet in the unfiltered pic is pretty accurate, but the background from the filtered pic is correct in that it is not all blue. The red in the filtered pic is nearly orange but the background is correct.

These pics were taken with my wife's Apple IPad which tints towards the blue side. [my phone tints towards the red side]

With the yellow/red acro neither is very good. The filter took all the soft red out leaving only yellow. In the unfiltered, the blue light that the camera sees washes out the yellows completely. Neither really captures what the eye sees on that acro.
 
Why not download the photo editing app Snapseed to your wife's iPad, then you could warm up the iPad photos.. may give you a more accurate end result. Or to your phone and cool the photos to reduce the red..
 
reefmutt said:
Why not download the photo editing app Snapseed to your wife's iPad, then you could warm up the iPad photos.. may give you a more accurate end result. Or to your phone and cool the photos to reduce the red..
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I did not know about Snapseed but I will do so on my phone. I have always just avoided posting pics of the corals that my phone does not photograph well. I do not want to make the pics better then real life but I would like them accurate and with the background un-shaded.

Thanks for the referral.

Would Snapseed be any different then Photobucket editing?
 
It's a bit better. Won't perform miracles but it does have more options and seems to have better software. I think...
 
The new 80 gallon display has been up and running for a week now. I have transferred over the larger sps colonies and mini colonies and left the frags back in the 40g. I am very happy with all aspects this first week. Consumption has stayed exactly the same and nothing looks worse for the wear. Par on the bottom is pretty close to exactly what I had in the 40g display.

In the sump, I upgraded my pump to an Ecotech Vectra.
In the display I have placed an MP-40
Lighting is two SB Reeflight 32" units.
Live stock is 10 Chromies, 4 Lyretails , 1 Six Line Wrasse.

The MP is set on Nutrient Export Mode at 50% so things are moving around.

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I can't believe I had that many corals in a 40 gallon tank. I cannot wait for these to continue growing out.

I had some trouble prying the Red Planet off the bottom. I now have some frags to gift some people.
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This is the first ever good photo I have ever taken of this coral . I do not know what it officially is, maybe someone could help me with it. Blueberry wine??
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Dragon Town.

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Green Slimer, growing, and sliming.

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This is some form of Tri Color. The back half was eaten off by a Hydnopora. It has taken a long time to recover but has started to shine again.

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Blue Tenuis

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Purple Monster finally coloring and having vertical growth.

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Frogskin . The branches are really blue to dark blue. This camera makes it look purple.

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And finally my Blue Stag. He is growing outwards right now rather then upwards.

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Just to keep everything in proportion, The marble tiles are 4"x4". The Red Planet sits on 8"x8" granite.
There is lots more to photo but that will be another day.

Thank you all for viewing.

Kevin
 
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markalot said:
Great to see, love that red planet. What do you use as frag tiles?
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Hey, Mark. Thank you for the visit.
The tiles are granite 4"x4" from Home Depot. They are about $5.00 for a pack of 8 or 10. I like them because they are low profile. They make maintenance very easy. The frag can encrust and grow to colony size and still be easy to move. I have been very happy with this system. To get different height platforms I have stacked two or three high in some place to offset the corals. In cases where I already had a frag growing on a rock, I just sit or glue the rock to the top tile.

The Red Planet was a challenge. I had let it grow onto the bottom glass. There were about 30 1" to 2" branches coming up off the surrounding encrustation. The main part stayed together but the encrusting spread fragmented during removal. I used a 6"x6" ceramic tile as a foundation and glued four 4"x4" tiles on top [overhanging the edges] to make an 8"x8" granite platform. It should encrust completely. The remaining pieces are still in the 40g tank and will be given or traded to other reefers.
 
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