Pictures galore

[Serioussnaps]

BB....pow!

 

[Serioussnaps]

Do you feed the tank any foods like oyster eggs or anything like that...i dont see many fish?

 

[FSOL]

Great looking tank (although I'm not a fan of BB) and great pics.

Two questions for you:

1) I thought Regals were not reef safe. How does yours do w/ your corals?
2) What camera and settings were used to get such nice sharp close up pics of your corals? I can never manage close up macro pics.

Thanks

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8473539#post8473539 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Serioussnaps
Do you feed the tank any foods like oyster eggs or anything like that...i dont see many fish?

I do feed oyster eggs a couple of times a month and cyclopese(sp?)

I have a regal angel, purple tang, lawn mower blenny, lantern basslet, copprband butterfly, sixline wrasse

not a ton of fish but still have some

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8473700#post8473700 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FSOL
Great looking tank (although I'm not a fan of BB) and great pics.

Two questions for you:

1) I thought Regals were not reef safe. How does yours do w/ your corals?
2) What camera and settings were used to get such nice sharp close up pics of your corals? I can never manage close up macro pics.

Thanks

Thanks and no problem, not a lot of people are fans of BB, but then not a lot of people can have the flow that I have either

Your questions:
1) hasn't nipped anything yet, but who knows one day he might turn out to be a coral eater, but so far he eats tons of mysis and angel food and algae.

2)Using a Cannon Digital Rebel XTI with 100mm macro lens and using manual focus and "no flash" setting. I use a tripod and remote triggering device for taking pictures which helps a TON.

here is the exif from one of the photos
Make: Canon
Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Size: 3888x2592
Bytes: 5134441
Aperture: f/3.5
ISO: 400
Focal Length: 100mm (guess: 106mm in 35mm)
Exposure Time: 0.008s (1/125)
Flash: Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode

hope that helps

 

[vin]

What you have fish,its like looking for Waldo very nice setup ,but I have a question about the 4 power heads what kind are they and if they are set on timers.

 

[FSOL]

VIN - he has tunzes it seems and probably uses 7095 multicontroller.

MAKOJ - I use 3 tunze 6100's and a 7095 multicontroller myself and have about 55x flow. I'm wondering what you have and if you've ever had issues tearing the skin off of corals. I'd love to have a regal in my tank, but knowing my luck it'll probably eat everything.

 

[jay24k]

Curious why you do not use ISO 100. With a 3.5 f, I can't imagine it not being quick enough to take some nice shots. I usually do f/3.2, ISO 100. Still nice pictures though.

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8475702#post8475702 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FSOL
VIN - he has tunzes it seems and probably uses 7095 multicontroller.

MAKOJ - I use 3 tunze 6100's and a 7095 multicontroller myself and have about 55x flow. I'm wondering what you have and if you've ever had issues tearing the skin off of corals. I'd love to have a regal in my tank, but knowing my luck it'll probably eat everything.

I use 6 tunze streams:
-6200 and 3- 6100's on a mulitcontroller
-6100 and a 6080
as well as a sequence dart return pump

I have the saltwater washing machine and none of the streams are too close to the coral so I haven't lost any flesh on any acros.

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8475895#post8475895 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jay24k
Curious why you do not use ISO 100. With a 3.5 f, I can't imagine it not being quick enough to take some nice shots. I usually do f/3.2, ISO 100. Still nice pictures though.

I do when I shoot in manual mode, but those settings are done automaticly by the camera in "no flash" mode.

 

[FSOL]

That's a lot of movement in a 120 gallon. Definitely is a saltwater washing machine With that much flow, you can't do anything but go BB.

 

[makoJ]

hey its a 150....lol not that thats much bigger than a 120 LOL

 

[Lunchbucket]

makoj - one of my fav tanks of all time. you have some VERY nice stuff!! so when are you sending those coral frags that you trimmed off to me???

Lunchbucket

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8478637#post8478637 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Lunchbucket
makoj - one of my fav tanks of all time. you have some VERY nice stuff!! so when are you sending those coral frags that you trimmed off to me???

Lunchbucket

whenever you want, I have to frag more next week also

 

[derekman]

nice tank! you just need to get the coraline off the back glass, I think it will make your tank pop more.

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8479013#post8479013 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by derekman
nice tank! you just need to get the coraline off the back glass, I think it will make your tank pop more.

I try it just too hard to get back there with my canopy.

On my next tank I will have more access to the back for sure

 

[CeeGee]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8480435#post8480435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by makoJ
I try it just too hard to get back there with my canopy.

On my next tank I will have more access to the back for sure

you need to give us more access to some additional pics!

 

[Bionicle]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8460989#post8460989 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by makoJ
Tubs Pink Jade

Is it Pink leomande that reefers just named it?

 

[bpd964]

WOW, that's serious flow!

 

[makoJ]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8482238#post8482238 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Bionicle
Is it Pink leomande that reefers just named it?

I don't think so, this coral has been around for a while and I think orignially named by Tub's himself. I know the mother colony died a while back. All I know is it was called Pink Jade