New tank setup

[Mark9]

 

[Mark9]

 

[flanole]

Nice tank. Flame hawks have a lot of personality. I bought a flame hawk with my first build in 2003. He is still alive and torments my CUC. He may limit some of the fish and inverts you can add to the tank, but few fish have as much personality.

 

[dawson1]

Really nice tank mate. Glad u added the sand, loads better

 

[Mark9]

Nice tank. Flame hawks have a lot of personality. I bought a flame hawk with my first build in 2003. He is still alive and torments my CUC. He may limit some of the fish and inverts you can add to the tank, but few fish have as much personality.

He is a very entertaining fish, quite wacky.

 

[Mark9]

Really nice tank mate. Glad u added the sand, loads better

Thanks. Sand does look better.
I don't have the skills to pull off a sandless minimalistic tank.

 

[Mark9]

Finished my coral stocking, got 4 new ones yesterday.
scoly, elegance, bubblegum chalice and some blue acans.
Pic shows the elegance, with the scoly to the left and acan behind.
Acan looks better in person, doubt i'll ever get a picture that does it justice.
Also got a green wrasse.

 

[Mark9]

FTS

 

[Mark9]

Trying some different settings on the camera

 

[Mark9]

 

[cdjim]

looks great

 

[Mark9]

looks great

Thanks.

 

[Mark9]

New fts, moved a bund of things around.

 

[nuxx]

Nice!

 

[Mark9]

Bought all contents of a tank from a guy taking a break from the hobby.
Really only wanted the clownfish, but it was an all or nothing deal.
Love the clowns, mated pair of a frostbite and a snowflake.
Also got 7 trochus snails, 4 hermits, watchman goby/pistol shrimp pair, peppermint shrimp, a gbta, something like 17 corals and a pail of rock, which i've already sold.
Some of the nicer things are an orange ricordia and a rock covered in zoas.

 

[Mark9]

Changed out an aquablue special for a blue+.
Looks great in person, but having a hard time taking a decent picture.
Some of he new corals and critters.

 

[Mark9]

FTS, still have stuff to move around.

 

[stingeragent]

That trachy is nice and poofy. What camera are you using? Try and use the white balance "shade".

 

[Mark9]

That trachy is nice and poofy. What camera are you using? Try and use the white balance "shade".

An old panasonic, can't remember the model, and I'm not home.
Before the bulb swap, I could set the white balance by using the sand, now I can't. I'll look for a "shade" option, thanks.
May try swapping the actinic for a purple+.

 

[stingeragent]

I didn't like my purple bulb when I had t5's. I also realized the actinic bulbs can vary from brand to brand. I bought like 6 different ones, all called something different. Tru blue , actinic, 460nm, and some other random ones I can't remember.