Some new pictures(picasso clowns included) ***PIC INTENSIVE

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Now the picasso's:

First, my newest addition:

 

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Now the pair:

 

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Last Pics, I swear:

 

[FATDUBS]

are they going into the RBA yet

 

[chrisstie]

Beautiful! I think my favorite is that chalice, drool!

 

[cschweitzer]

Not even close...they sit in the corner by the hang-on overflow. The RBTA that they have is about 5 times their size and they won't go near it. When I feed at night, I try to coax them in, but no luck. The picasso that's paired with the onyx is hosting in anything, sleeping in xenia. The onyx took up a frogspawn and they are good. The jigsaw/onyx pair(onyx shown above in frogspawn) are hosting. The onyx hosts a big frogspawn and the jigsaw hosts the BTA from the second pic.

 

[Boostable]

Looks great!!! What kinda camera and shot conditions where you using?

 

[cschweitzer]

Thanks everyone for the comments. I think that chalice(echinopora) is actually an alien eye mycedium, but I do love that coral...I might try fragging it at some point, so I'll keep you posted.

Jack, I used an Olympus C-60, 6.1MP, supermacro mode for all corals, no flash or zoom available for supermacro, shutter speed at about 1/15-1/25. For fish I use regular macro mode with flash and 1/1000 shutter speed.

 

[cschweitzer]

I really gotta clean the glass to get good pics of the picassos, but whenever I do that, they get skittish.

 

[Me No Nemo]

Great photos. Can I use some on the DVD we are making? The Picassos color up great as they mature. Very nicely done.

 

[GSMguy]

can you tell me where all your clowns are from im assuming having seen allot of these lateley the new additions are ORA but where did you aquire the picassos other than that and where is your onyx from? great pics awsome fish

 

[cschweitzer]

All my picasso's are from the one and only Sea in the City. Speaking of, of course you can use these pictures, Marcye. I expect royalties of 2 points on every sale of the DVD, though.

All of them were from ORA. The oldest two were when ORA just started re-releasing their picassos(some may remember that before the hurricane's they had released a few and were halted by the storms). They have since been pushing a lot of them out on the market and increased the price.

I got my onyx percs from a guy in CA. They were WC and really healthy when I got them in. They were not a pair, so I split them and put them with other percs to see what would happen. I haven't talked to him or seen him around any of the forums, but I'll try to get in contact and see if he can still get them. They were a great price, even with the shipping cost.

 

[chrisstie]

Man if you frag that chalice-like-thing I will be your best friend forever; p LOL

 

[cschweitzer]

Well, I'll tell you what...I'll talk to Marcye today and see if she can help me out sometime in the near future. May be a little while as it will have to work around both of our schedules, which has been pretty hard so far.

 

[ricanboy57]

The colors on those coral pics are gorgeous! What lights are you running on that tank? and what size is it? And that mycedium is just too cool looking. I think i saw one like that on the forsale section but in a waltermelon scheme. I think those are my favorite looking corals right now.

 

[cschweitzer]

Depends on the coral you're talking about...I'm running 5 tanks with 4 lighting schemes...
The first 11 shots are from a 30G under PC's (2X96, 1 10000K, 1 actinic
The next 7 are under VHO's, 2X95 10000K, 1X95 actinic over a 55G tank
And the last ones were taken with flash, which makes any lighting scheme irrelavent.