Pete's 280 log

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12742652#post12742652 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismunn
whats a marcworm?

heck if I know, but Marc found two in his tank eating his clams

 

[psteeleb]

the blob is also making a nice comeback

haha - "The Return of the Blob" great sequel"

and a cute little majono

 

[chrismunn]

nice blob

i had mojanos once. i had about 3, and they were very easily sucked from the rock with a turkey baster. i kept them in a pitri dish in my fuge and they never moved or multiplied.... i guess i was lucky because everybody else i hear from say their a major nuisance!

you might wanna do something about that guy before he starts stinging your blob.

 

[psteeleb]

I'm constantly killing majonos. I just missed that guy the other night when I made a pass at some.

 

[chrismunn]

oh, hehe. im sorry for ya man!

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743007#post12743007 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismunn
oh, hehe. im sorry for ya man!

I just conceded to making part of my monthly ordeal.

 

[psteeleb]

I grabbed a couple late night atinics only pictures

the return of the blob

with co-star - frogspawn

and frogspawn 2

and introducing - Ric Rock

and his cousin the multi mouth wonder

produced by the purple shrooms

 

[ReefEnabler]

i love actinic shots especially the rics


hey whatever happened to your stretch armstrong ric.... did it auto-frag itself??

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743497#post12743497 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
i love actinic shots especially the rics


hey whatever happened to your stretch armstrong ric.... did it auto-frag itself??

yep - now two Rics

and the thing that's nice is he's off the rock ready to start another colony

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743497#post12743497 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by RyanBrucks
i love actinic shots especially the rics


hey whatever happened to your stretch armstrong ric.... did it auto-frag itself??

I love attinic shots too but have not been able to take them
How do you take them--I have a nikon dx40

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12742522#post12742522 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by psteeleb
grabbed a picture of the other clams - they all look happy

Not a bad picture through 3' of water


still not sure what got the other one, parameters all look fine, and I've been looking late at night and in the morning for "Marcworms" or other predictors but nothing spotted. My best guess right now is I knocked something on it like some salt build up on the top of my tank.

beautiful---3 feet of water--what lighting are you using to penetrate that far

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743544#post12743544 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
I love attinic shots too but have not been able to take them
How do you take them--I have a nikon dx40

I use a rather inepensive Panasonic Lumix. I waste a bunch of pictures for eveyone I use, glad it's not film.

For atinics I have played with the white balance but most of the time I just use the auto setting. These were taken on the auto white balance setting. I find it works a bit better at lower resolution, I think these started at 3megs.

heres a couple I shot last year in the morning with atinics

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743550#post12743550 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by capn_hylinur
beautiful---3 feet of water--what lighting are you using to penetrate that far

the clam pic is taken with 3 250w 12k Reflux and the atinics on. They are in lumabrite relfectors. I also have a couple 400w 10k Reflux but hardly ever turn them on. Once I get things back to a stable condition I'll start to run the 400's a couple hours a day.

 

[Hop]

Nice shots!

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12743776#post12743776 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Hop
Nice shots!

Thanks

 

[melev]

Pete, the A. mille looks much better, and the blob could be an A. nana perhaps. Making a comeback. :thumbsup:

 

[chrismunn]

did i count 5 mouths on that one ricordea? thats pretty cool!

 

[psteeleb]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12746175#post12746175 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by chrismunn
did i count 5 mouths on that one ricordea? thats pretty cool!

that's what I counted also. I keep expecting it to split but I guess it;s content with just growing more mouths and making a chain of connected rics.

I found an easy way to make Rics split. Sprinkle some kalc paste on them and they will split almost overnight trying to rid themselves of the stuff. I found this out when I was killing the mojanos and some kalc paste fell on some rics. They were immediately burned and split overnight. It happened again about a month later and the same thing happened, purely by accident of course.

 

[chrismunn]

thats pretty cool, i guess?

 

[Aquarist007]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12744172#post12744172 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Pete, the A. mille looks much better, and the blob could be an A. nana perhaps. Making a comeback. :thumbsup:

Marc, do you know how to take attinic shots using a Nikon dx40?
Even the camera shop where I bought the camera can't tell me.
On automatic like psteeleb suggested I just get a shot with the attinics filtered out--rather ugly actually