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Recty
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I got some more pictures of my majestic today, I realized I have like almost none of him.
I was trying to get a picture of him actually taking a bite which is pretty much impossible.
Notice this next picture... it was taken at 1/250th of a second and the majestic is still blurred. If you've ever seen an angel eat, you can tell what he is doing, that pick and jerk motion that they use to eat. You can see how nice and fat he is.
I caught my lemonpeel in the same motion.
And then I also got my blueface out and eating for once, or yawning, I'm not sure which
I was trying to get a picture of him actually taking a bite which is pretty much impossible.
Notice this next picture... it was taken at 1/250th of a second and the majestic is still blurred. If you've ever seen an angel eat, you can tell what he is doing, that pick and jerk motion that they use to eat. You can see how nice and fat he is.
I caught my lemonpeel in the same motion.
And then I also got my blueface out and eating for once, or yawning, I'm not sure which
yukonblizzard
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I still have yet to hear anything good about keeping sand in a FOWLR, so im thinking going barebottom is my next task, but boy is it going to be a PITA!
Recty
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Thanks Sean.
Yeah, it is kind of annoying. My tangs will just mow through the nori but the angels tend to be wasteful. Jerk, rip, jerk, rip, jerk, rip... pieces everywhere. Fortunately, I have enough fish that not everyone can be eating at once, so the ones who are hanging back come forward and pick through all the floating pieces and not a lot of it ends up sticking to a Koralia or the overflow intake.
Recty
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I was actually amazed how easy it was. I had a 2" live sand bed in my tank before I went bare bottom. I just removed the sand over the course of 4 weeks with a piece of large diameter (I think 2") PVC hooked to a large diameter piece of plastic tubing. I got a siphon going and then just went to town on the sand when I would do a water change, which was every weekend. By the third weekend, I had all the sand removed except what was underneath my rocks, so I stacked all the rocks on one side of the tank and sucked clean the non rock stack side. Then I moved my rocks back so the fish had a whole tank to use again. The next weekend I moved all my rocks to the other side and sucked that side clean.
I ended up with a little bit of sand still in the tank that had blown around during that last weekend, but every weekend as I did water changes I just made sure to try to get some sand and within a coupe months there wasnt any left.
I'm still sucking sand out of my rocks thanks to my humu trigger
calmplex2g
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hey recty love this fish,wanted to ask u n others,i have sand in my tank and wanted to treat with cupramine and wanted to take my sand out for the treatment and cleaning purposes,wanted to know if u think it would be bad to take it all out at 1 time or in the course of days rather then weeks?or should i do treatment with sand in there and maybe take out sand during weekly water changes during treatment........first post dont be harsh people,lol
Recty
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Thanks, I really like the majestic, I hope he doesnt do like a lot of people's majestic and just up and die after 6 months for no apparent reason. I almost didnt get a majestic just because of that but I'm hoping something I'm doing might make him last a while.
Actually I think most people report their majestic angels dying after just 2-3 months, 6 months seems to be a long time. Of course, that was reading off WWM which seems to be pretty conservative. The thing that is hard about their website is they only get the problems, so they dont see all the cases of people who have angels that live for years, they only hear about the people who have angels that die after a couple months or so.
I got mine off Diver's Den and I trust they get their fish from a good source, or as good as possible, so I think mine has a good chance of a long life.
I didnt notice the queen and blueface shots coming out dark, but all that is would be exposure, I can bump up the ISO for those pictures. I think the blueface doesnt reflect light very well compared to the other fish, he is pretty dark. I just looked at the last picture of the blueface where he has his mouth open, I think that is pretty true to life as far as the coloring goes.
I looked at my latest two queen pictures I posted too and I dont see them being dark, maybe it's a difference in monitors? They look normal to me.
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yukonblizzard
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<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=15584435#post15584435 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Recty
I was actually amazed how easy it was. I had a 2" live sand bed in my tank before I went bare bottom. I just removed the sand over the course of 4 weeks with a piece of large diameter (I think 2") PVC hooked to a large diameter piece of plastic tubing. I got a siphon going and then just went to town on the sand when I would do a water change, which was every weekend. By the third weekend, I had all the sand removed except what was underneath my rocks, so I stacked all the rocks on one side of the tank and sucked clean the non rock stack side. Then I moved my rocks back so the fish had a whole tank to use again. The next weekend I moved all my rocks to the other side and sucked that side clean.
I ended up with a little bit of sand still in the tank that had blown around during that last weekend, but every weekend as I did water changes I just made sure to try to get some sand and within a coupe months there wasnt any left.
I'm still sucking sand out of my rocks thanks to my humu trigger
Okay, thats much easier then what I thought I was going to have to do!
And I know what you mean about the trigger, my bursa and puffer scatter the sand all over too.
Recty
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I would take it out over the course of at least a week... but it depends on the depth of the sand bed, the size of your tank and the fish you have.
I took mine out over the course of a month when I did it just to avoid causing anything too harmful, because removing the sand definitely changes the way the system works and no matter how careful you are, it stirs up and murks up the water at least a little. Also if you have a lot of critters in the sand bed, you'll be killing them off and they might be part of what is helping keep your tank stable, or who knows. Anyway, one thing I've learned over time is that you need to make changes slowly.
Recty
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Oh, I see the difference. I'm using a flash with mine, you arent. That basically causes it. My flash is smart enough that it senses the light needed for the shot and then bases how powerful to flash. It seems to have a hard time with the blue face, like I said I think it doesnt reflect like the other fish do, the flash has a hard time compensating.
Here is the only non flash shot I have of the blueface. It doesnt show the whole fish but you get the idea, it looks lighter without the flash. I could change my settings to make the fish look more like yours, but your scales are really lacking definition so I'm not sure I want to do that
And Welsher is basically correct, by whatever means (shutter speed, ISO or aperture) you are letting in more light than I am.
Recty
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That can also just be the difference in lighting. I'm lighting from a single source, a 250w 13K metal halide so it gives a lot of definition. You have T5's or power compacts, right? A lot of long relatively weak lights produce a different effect than a single strong point of light.
And I'm betting you arent using 13K either, so that is going to bring out the fishes color differently.
And I'm betting you arent using 13K either, so that is going to bring out the fishes color differently.
Recty
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Yeah, I went with the MH because I like the shimmer look that a single strong point of light brings to the fish and the rock work. It looks really cool and natural, whereas a lot of T5 lighting just makes everything look kind of flat and "industrial" for lack of a better word.
I also think the 13K is key in bringing out colors. It's warm enough that it doesnt bleach out oranges/reds but it is cool enough that it really makes the blue/green part of the fish look great too. I'd actually like to stick a couple small actinic T5s on the ends of the tank and see what that does for the coloration.
I also think the 13K is key in bringing out colors. It's warm enough that it doesnt bleach out oranges/reds but it is cool enough that it really makes the blue/green part of the fish look great too. I'd actually like to stick a couple small actinic T5s on the ends of the tank and see what that does for the coloration.
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