The Phoenix, by Orthokardia (graphic heavy)

[Pickupman66]

went to Orthokardia's house to practice with my camera a bit. I had a little white balance issue, so these have been re-colored a bit.

 

[Pickupman66]

 

[Pickupman66]

 

[zef004]

Good shooting Lindsey and nice tank brat.

 

[NeedBiggerTank]

brat? LOL

 

[zukmancdr]

that is a nice tank. good job!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[orthokardia]

freudian slip Zef? Thanks for the shots Pickupman!
Brandon-the coral i was talking about is the first two pics in the second post.

-bart

 

[zef004]

Brat bart Same thing. Lol just playing bud.

 

[Pickupman66]

Thanks Zef.. Learned alot. the water was pretty turbid when we were shooting as he was re-working teh sump recently. all in all, not too bad after I got them re-colored but I didnt get the detail out of them like I wanted. Here is a frag that is teh same as photo 5 in the first post. this one was cropped. no other retouching. even though I resized his photos before posting here, the detail was just not there when zoomed in.

 

[Fcamdog]

Wow Bart, nice tank. The pendant on the right is much better though! You can tell a difference in light spread with just the naked eye. Being serious too, not just cause you bought the pendant from me.

Fidel

 

[NeedBiggerTank]

Nice tank - really pretty corals... but where are your fish?

 

[sal-t-dawg]

sheesh Bart!! I dont think you have enough eagle eyes!! Looks great man!

 

[orthokardia]

Jennie-i do have fish.....they must have though Lindsey was just too much...both of them.

Fidel-i am really stoked to install the second lumenbright this afternoon

Carl-ya someone gave me this weed to hold and it just keeps growing

 

[Pickupman66]

He had a pair of tanks in there. that was all that I witnesses, but they were very very camera shy. not like my tangs who are constantly in the way. the rest of the fish are in the 300 down below.

 

[Pickupman66]

Bart,

the frag that I photographed and posted from my tank just above. have you ever noticed purple or blueish tips on its growth with teh mother colony? it is really starting to color up in my tank. Looks awesome. the tips are a faint purple color.

 

[orthokardia]

silver blue mostly....how bout some pics of the frags in ur tank??

 

[luckyfish]

Bart what are the dimensions of the tank and how far above the water do you have your halides set?

 

[Pickupman66]

Ill get some when we get back.

 

[orthokardia]

the lumenbright large sits 12" from bottom of pendant to top of tank and 16" bulb to water. the tank is Bill's old tank raised from the ashes (dust) of his garage. it is 60x30x25

 

[dowtish]

Really nice tank Bart! Thanks for taking the picks Pickupman.

Chris