New Camera, New pics.

[reefsahoy]

please take and post some close up pics of your sps corals. I started my sps tank about 3 months ago and have pretty good tank parameters.
ca 400
alk7dkh
po4 0
nitrate 0
amonia 0
ph 8.6 end of the day
sg 1.022
i do water changes every 7 to 10 days with real ocean water (i live near ocean) and is collected at high tide when water rushing in.
not sure if i need to add anything to get more coloration to sps and am looking for info or suggestions. i use 6 t5's ho on a 80 gal bowfront, with overskimming (skimmer designed for 250 gallon tank) any ideas?

 

[salt-rookie]

Specific Gravity should be 1.026, and your Alkalinity should be about 8.4.....IMO!

 

[damienkee]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7590538#post7590538 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SunnyX

sorry for my stupid question.

is this shot taken with the built in function? or you add an additional gadget to get this shot?

 

[Large Polyp Dave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7590548#post7590548 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SunnyX

Great tank sunnyx! The monti cap is massive.

Is your tank on a bit of an angle or are my eyes tricking me?
The water level at the top of the tank seems to get lower and lower towards the right?

 

[Ralistin]

Hey Sunny. You said you add Lugol's solution. I am really unfamiliar with this. Why do you like it and what is it supposed to add?

I only add fish food, Nori, and Randy's two part.

btw, did anyone see that special last night which was on Discovery or the Science channel about the Geneticists who took the boat trip around the world and took a sample of ocean water in key locations? They were able to use a method to determine how many unique brand new species (At the microscopic level) that they had acquired. It was a very broad study and the big outcome was simply the fact that there are millions upon millions of unknown species in the ocean at the microscopic level which are still undiscovered yet. They only know they exist through this method.

I guess this isn't really for this thread but I just thought about it and thoght it was pretty cool.

 

[SunnyX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7655242#post7655242 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by reefsahoy
please take and post some close up pics of your sps corals. I started my sps tank about 3 months ago and have pretty good tank parameters.
ca 400
alk7dkh
po4 0
nitrate 0
amonia 0
ph 8.6 end of the day
sg 1.022
i do water changes every 7 to 10 days with real ocean water (i live near ocean) and is collected at high tide when water rushing in.
not sure if i need to add anything to get more coloration to sps and am looking for info or suggestions. i use 6 t5's ho on a 80 gal bowfront, with overskimming (skimmer designed for 250 gallon tank) any ideas?

What problems are you having?

-Increase your SG to 1.026 or 35 PPM.
-Decrease your Ph to 8.4.
-Keep temp and ph swings to a minimum.

 

[SunnyX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7656947#post7656947 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by damienkee
sorry for my stupid question.

is this shot taken with the built in function? or you add an additional gadget to get this shot?

This shot was taken with the camera straight out of the box in close-up mode. I will get a Sigma 105MM Macro pretty soon to take really detailed pics.

 

[SunnyX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7657127#post7657127 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Large Polyp Dave
Great tank sunnyx! The monti cap is massive.

Is your tank on a bit of an angle or are my eyes tricking me?
The water level at the top of the tank seems to get lower and lower towards the right?

Actually my frame is what is throwing it off. The frame is off a little to the right. One of these days I will get around to fixing it.

 

[SunnyX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7657215#post7657215 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ralistin
Hey Sunny. You said you add Lugol's solution. I am really unfamiliar with this. Why do you like it and what is it supposed to add?

I only add fish food, Nori, and Randy's two part.

I have been adding Lugols since day one and it seems to aid in coloration and SPS health.

 

[CeeGee]

how much and how often do you add the lugols?

 

[SunnyX]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7658561#post7658561 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by CeeGee
how much and how often do you add the lugols?

10 Drops every sunday morning.

 

[Ralistin]

I am not trying to be funny but how do you know it helps if you used it from day one? I don't question your husbandry skills as I know they are obviously really good. I am just really curious as to folks using this as a Iodine suppliment.

 

[Ralistin]

Beautiful tank too! Can't wait for mine to get there.

 

[Ralistin]

Got any real good close up of only the red cap?

 

[jt_redmist]

Okay, since you feed the corals indirectly through the fishes. What do you feed your fishes?

JT

 

[reefsahoy]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=7657354#post7657354 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by SunnyX
What problems are you having?

-Increase your SG to 1.026 or 35 PPM.
-Decrease your Ph to 8.4.
-Keep temp and ph swings to a minimum.

just looking for more colors from my corals. not sure if i'm being impatient waiting for corals to color up. what about the close up pics?

 

[Mike.B]

Awesome tank, congrats on TOTM :thumbsup: