Pics - getting better with my camera

[jacksonpt]

Finally starting to get some of the manual controls figured out on my camera, and since work is quiet today I figured I'd post a new batch of mostly boring pictures.

Typical FTS

FTS from the side (also the view from my favorite chair in the adjoining family room)...

Blastos

Blue Polyps - I wish these would start spreading...

Candy Cane

Favia

ORA Red Gonipora

Green Branching Hammer (would like to replace this with a walling hammer)

Purple-Tipped Branching Hammer

 

[Flanders]

I have those same blue polyps and they don't seem to spread at all.

 

[jacksonpt]

Green Torch

Pink-Tipped Torch

Purple Torch

Midas Blenny

Mystery Wrasse

Purple Undata Monti

Yellow Undata Monti

Toadstools

 

[SkiFletch]

Doing fantastic

 

[Henry Colf]

Love it!!!!! Tank looks great and the pics are great too...

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Sharp!

 

[passedpawn]

Nice pics.

So, what camera are you using? Tripod?

 

[jacksonpt]

Nice pics.

So, what camera are you using? Tripod?

Nikon D3100, no tripod. Post production in Adobe Lightroom.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

sharp pix

what exactly are the "blue polyps".... or what family of corals?

I would place LPS/softies low and the SPS up (on rocks). This has to do with flow as well as lighting.

I've always had a problem with keeping planktivores well fed and fat. Midas Blenny is skinny here as well. Must fatten it up. ON mysids.

 

[jacksonpt]

sharp pix

what exactly are the "blue polyps".... or what family of corals?

I would place LPS/softies low and the SPS up (on rocks). This has to do with flow as well as lighting.

I've always had a problem with keeping planktivores well fed and fat. Midas Blenny is skinny here as well. Must fatten it up. ON mysids.

Not sure on the blue polyps, got them in a trade.

I generally agree, but my experience has been different. Some things seem to burn (bleach) when placed high even though the common belief is that they like higher light (milis, for example). Some of my lps and softies can't get enough light, so I start everything low and move them up until they start to complain to establish their "comfort zone". Once I know that I can find a permanent home for them.

Yea, he's getting better. I had a bully of a blenny (sold to me as a lawnmower, but not really a lawnmower) that basically had the midas in hiding all the time. Now that the bully is gone, the midas is out and eating often and already looking better.

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

I'm gonna guess (I rarely guess!) the blue polyps are some type of Xeniid