Salty's Cellar

[mr.maroonsalty]

Thought I'd start my first rc picture thread; I don't take a lot of photos, certainly not very many good shots, so I probably wont post all too often, but here it goes some pics of my little glass box of salt:

Funny, all we see of Salty in these two pictures is her tale; Bones is the newest addition I needed to add to control some running away red algae; its pencilled into a larger tank near year's end.

 

[superkat]

those are NICE! thanks for sharing!

 

[Capt_Cully]

Last shot's amazing!

 

[fatrip]

very nice clam shot.

 

[dreaminmel]

The "fish in cave" perspective is pretty neat too.

 

[shawna1972]

Scopas is cute! Funny I can take pictures of my hippos/clowns no problem but as soon as I try and sneak of shot of my Scopas he goes hiding lol
Btw you should post pics more often your camera is not so bad "Better than my shots"
Take care.

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Last shot's amazing!

very nice clam shot.

Thanks, put a super model down in front of me telling her not move, and I'm bound to find one decent pic. I'm having a wee bit of a problem with it atm

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Scopas is cute! Funny I can take pictures of my hippos/clowns no problem but as soon as I try and sneak of shot of my Scopas he goes hiding lol
Btw you should post pics more often your camera is not so bad "Better than my shots"
Take care.

Thank you Shawna, I call it my "Poor Man's Gem Tang"

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

The "fish in cave" perspective is pretty neat too.

Salty did all the excavating, I didn't plan it, but when I restacked last year I did the rockwork backwards from what I had done in the past, by placing my largest rocks first and building and using smaller pieces on top; the way most things are built. I just recently pulled the sand bed in front, before that it was a real bunker under there. Here's a top view I posted in the fts thread:

 

[dreaminmel]

Beautyfull! Lots of questions now though.. sorry.

-Do you find you have to prune back the macroalgae a lot? Love the green color it adds...
-On the right, is the gorgonian growing out of a porites coral?
-What is the fish with the orange head?

 

[shawna1972]

Thank you Shawna, I call it my "Poor Man's Gem Tang"

Very beautiful! May be poor mans but one of my favorite! :beer:

 

[shawna1972]

Salty did all the excavating, I didn't plan it, but when I restacked last year I did the rockwork backwards from what I had done in the past, by placing my largest rocks first and building and using smaller pieces on top; the way most things are built. I just recently pulled the sand bed in front, before that it was a real bunker under there. Here's a top view I posted in the fts thread:

Very nice!

 

[Gary Majchrzak]

nice aquarium, Salty.

Is this aquarium a hex?

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

Beautyfull! Lots of questions now though.. sorry.

-Do you find you have to prune back the macroalgae a lot? Love the green color it adds...
-On the right, is the gorgonian growing out of a porites coral?
-What is the fish with the orange head?

I do have to try and keep the macro algae in check. Right now I have two vr. One I haven't identified, and its a pita because its hard to remove and I haven't anything that will eat it, corals can overgrow it, instead of vice versa so its not the end of life with the stuff. The other is a small lobed helimeda sp. that I do have to tweeze out from time to time. The tank used to have a huge population of caterpillar algae (Neomeris annulata) that got to the point where I was pulling that out too but that has since waned to only a few stalks.

I've always enjoyed having algae; when I finally upgrade I plan on taking this stack and putting it in my 72 and running it as a macro/xenia fuge; It should grow all kinds of algae if I let it do what it wants. I have done pretty well getting the different caulerpa out or at near complete bay in the mt, for no other reason than they are better at competing for light than sps corals. Removing 30- 50 mls of every few weeks is a breeze when I remember my past fights with HA when it seemed like I could pull a pint of the stuff out almost at will.

The Gorgonia bases out, encrusting the rock at the bottom.

That's a Talbot's Damsel. Its a sweet little fish for tanks w/o passive fishes like Fairy wrasse. This one is part of a trio that I got over five years ago; one was lost in a tank move, the other made a good pair that raised eggs to larva regularly, but became one of those mysterious losses one day when I never saw it again.

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

nice aquarium, Salty.

Is this aquarium a hex?

Remember the Oceanic "Contrast Collection?" It's their "40g Show Hex" from 2003/2004. The front viewing section is roughly 16 deep 18 long, then it has a 6" longer hex section on each end.

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

I realized Melanie, you might be asking about the coral above the gorgonia on the bottom? That is reminder to me what happens when I stop caring about something important to me. It was a purple ribbon gorgonia from garf that was apart of my first coral order back in 03, not a special coral just one of my first; Summer two years ago I couldn't stay on top of some kind of gooey algae, and I turned the lights off walking away. Later, I pulled the rock and put it in a storage tub with a ph. A handful of corals survived about four months with only ambient light. That Gorg made it most of it, but didn't make it into the do-over alive; I mounted the skeleton on a Blue Ridge coral, Heliopora to see how far up it will encrust, and like I said as a reminder for me to take care of something I care about.

 

[Johnny C]

Beautiful Aquarium... Great shots, too! Mind telling us what kind of camera you use!

 

[mr.maroonsalty]

A couple year old p&s Olympus sp-320

 

[aquadonkey]

Looks great! I love the shot of the tang with the feather duster! Nice colors

 

[dreaminmel]

I realized Melanie, you might be asking about the coral above the gorgonia on the bottom? That is reminder to me what happens when I stop caring about something important to me. It was a purple ribbon gorgonia from garf that was apart of my first coral order back in 03, not a special coral just one of my first; Summer two years ago I couldn't stay on top of some kind of gooey algae, and I turned the lights off walking away. Later, I pulled the rock and put it in a storage tub with a ph. A handful of corals survived about four months with only ambient light. That Gorg made it most of it, but didn't make it into the do-over alive; I mounted the skeleton on a Blue Ridge coral, Heliopora to see how far up it will encrust, and like I said as a reminder for me to take care of something I care about.

Yes, that was the coral I was asking of. Sorry to hear what happened to it. Love the Blue Ridge.