Rebirth - 1500l

That's too bad. Maybe check out this thread: http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2660626


Just a thought. I may try it out if I ever get my 210 set up.

Maybe I'll try them too.....but a little later.......for now I'm giving the dansels a break....:worried:


You are dead on there. One of the best scapes and coral placement on RC and elsewhere. TOTM here IMO if that's still around.

Thanks!
I apreciate. :beer:
I'm trying too keep my initial goal of keep an wide open space, not filling up every inch of sand with frags...
From time to time some sps must be trimmed and I move things to keep the overall aspect clean and organized.
Recently I sold 3 big colonies (yongei, tortuosa turquoise adn milepora eletric green) to open some room.....
And that's it.
 
Maybe I'll try them too.....but a little later.......for now I'm giving the dansels a break....:worried:

You have damsels in the tank?
How are these behaving with the rest?

I like the colour variety of damsels but as many people avoid them, I always did too.
 
Some Updates:

- Only 2 Chromis remain from the group of 15. Counting the old ones there are now 5 in the tank.

- To balance, I ended up getting some fish (8 in total) that I wanted some time with the Eco-Reef Ornamentals.
I took another pseudochromis sankeyi, to pair with my old one and probably to form a couple.
Also I got 2 fridmaniis, 1 Springerii and 4 gobys: 2 neons and 2 tigers.
None of them are fishes of open spaces.
The pseudochromis were allocated on the big island. All 5 are there and they're doing quite well together.
The neons are still a little lost ..... near the front glass, in the corner. I hope they meet a spot soon and move from there to some point on the rocks. I had a couple once and the behavior was pretty cool.
The tigers disappeared when they arrived and I still can not locate any of the 2 ...... Inconvenient of a tank too big ....
They are very small and almost transparent fish. I knew the chance of this happening was enormous but I wanted to risk it anyway because I think they are very interesting. I hope they'll get out of hiding and start moving around the tank. I know they have a behavior similar to neon gobies.
Despite this general demeanor, I got what I wanted that was to take a bustling in the tank, and create other points of attention.

I sold almost in sequence my colonies of milepora eletric green, tortuousa turquoise and yongei green.
They were too big and too difficult to fit into the layout. As one of my goals is to deviate from the original layout as little as possible, I preferred to sell them. But I kept seedlings of the yongei and the millepora and they're still in tank.
In contrast, I add new frags of chalice, lepastastrea and one of the last sps that must come: a purple solitariensis with very beautiful green tips.

No other significant loss or any other big change.
Now it's time to leave the tank quiet about 2 or 3 months ...
 
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One of the neons found himself.......

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Some Top Downs from a week ago:

Lemon Lime
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Subulata purple
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Subulata Blue
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Rasta Gem
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Lokani purple
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Echinata blue
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Tortuosa ORA blue green
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Last week I received a set of extension tubes that I had bought a few months ago to make Macro shots.

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They have the "quality" of Chinese products but at first glance they lend themselves to their purpose.
I had quick tests last weekend.

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This solitariensis is 70 cm far from the glass ...
I was able to pull it closer with a 300mm tele lens and focus using the 31mm tube.
The photo was not croped ..... I correct gama, contrast, exposure and brigthness ....

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After that I had time to do some tests with the extension tubes and lenses I have and the best result I got was using 2 or 3 tubes together with my 75 ~ 300mm lens.
It is not a nice lens. The brightness is very low and this forces me to work with a larger ISO, which granulates the photos a bit.

This was the result:

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Of course the tubes aren't nearly as good as a macro lens, but considering they cost me about $ 12, and a 100mm macro lens from Canon costs $ 600, plus shipping cost, I don't think it was a waste money.
The construction is a little poor ..... the setting of the eletric contacts idem .... One of the tubes is a little tricky to release.
Everything like as I had read in the reviews of the product but, anyway, I think it was worth the money I paid and overall I am satisfied with the results.
In addition, I ended up photographing some corals that, because of the size of my tank, I had never photographed before.
 
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Of course the tubes aren't nearly as good as a macro lens, but considering they cost me about $ 12, and a 100mm macro lens from Canon costs $ 600, plus shipping cost, I don't think it was a waste money.
The construction is a little poor ..... the setting of the eletric contacts idem .... One of the tubes is a little tricky to release.
Everything like as I had read in the reviews of the product but, anyway, I think it was worth the money I paid and overall I am satisfied with the results.
In addition, I ended up photographing some corals that, because of the size of my tank, I had never photographed before.

You've done an amazing job with those $12 tubes. I don't think they're supposed to make those pics. Beautiful compositions.
 
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