Some Thursday Night Macro Photos

[o2manyfish]

So 11pm rolls around tonight and I decide to throw a little late night Nori in the tank for the fish. I ordered a bunch of black worms last week and have been feeding them everynight for over a week now. I have somewhere between 4 and 6 yellow assessors. They've been looking pretty beat up for the last few months. After a week of black worms, I was amazed how much better the assessors look. They are brighter, thicker and their colors looked really good tonight. While studying them I was studying my trio of percs and realized that they are sitting on a pile of eggs, and they must be getting close to hatching because I can see all the little eyes. I pulled out the macro lens to try to get a shot.

After a few frustrating minutes trying to get a shot, I switched over to shooting the corals....

My grafted Monti

One of my blue stags

Bali Echinata

Blue Tort-like

Jedi Mind Trick

Lokani

Maxima

Pink Millie

 

[o2manyfish]

Monti

Oregon Tort

Pink Alveapora

Purple Acro

Possible a Strawberry Shortcake

Sunny D

Valida

Things are looking really good. Going to start dosing Triton Zinc and Manganese and see if I can get some more depth/richness to some of the colors.


Dave B

 

[ezcompany]

stunning
congrats on the babies

 

[arashsheikhpoor]

great looking pics!

 

[chrislkh]

Nice pics

 

[la1fan]

Stunning!

 

[WayneL333]

Wow, how cool is that Dave!?! Congrats, btw on your recent nuptials

How do you feed your live black worms? I've been meaning to try it. I remember trying it a long time ago and it wasn't too pretty. If I remember correctly, if they weren't eaten quickly, they were broke apart and the pumps spread them out all over the place.

 

[o2manyfish]

Thanks for the compliments guys.

Wayne,

I just take a big pinch from the fridge and put it in a little souffle bowl. Then I just take a pinch at a time and drop it in the middle of the tank. I don't even shut the pumps off. The worms have a very short life span in the salt water. They don't sink right away they gradually float down. I would say 95% doesn't make it floating past the 1/2 way part of the tank. It takes maybe a minute of putting in little pinches to work through the big pinch of worms. My Big pinch is probably like enough to cover a tablespoon maybe 1/4 of and inch deep.

While editing the macro photos in one of them I spotted a piece of worm sitting on a blue acro. But not much is wasted. I feed the worms heavily in the area above my elegance and acans. But none get to the bottom there either.

But I also have well over a 100 fish in my tank. So there are a lot more mouths looking to feed.

Dave B

 

[discotu]

very nice!

 

[saybng]

Wow great shots ..thanks for sharing. .

 

[pciscott]

Awesome colors! I need to fast forward a few years on my tank Jealousy! I want 100 fish!

 

[billyzbear]

Amazing Dave, thanks for sharing.

 

[dodgerblew]

Hard to believe you had a devastating tank crash a couple yrs ago. Very impressive Dave. You're my Mr. Miyagi lol