Through the Looking Glass

[watchguy123]

Where do you get the reef raft stuff from? Direct or fellow reefers? Always check on your updates =)..

This batch came from a couple of fellow reefers.

a couple of interesting pictures. I shot these in raw and then edited in photoshop elements as usual. although they look over saturated, I only adjusted temp, exposure and brightness. Temp I brought up to 20 k because these were with my new fixture but only the 20k radiums were on. Exposure and brightness were increased because the picture was somewhat dark. My previous ushio 20ks and old fixture were easier to color correct.

 

[akitareefer]

I have a pair of percula clowns, purple tang, pacific blue tang, yellow tang, powder blue tang, Vanuatu wrasse ( exquisite coris wrasse), leopard wrasse, bipartitus wrasse, radiant wrasse, yellow coris wrasse ( not a real coris), mystery wrasse, melanarus wrasse, gray headed wrasse, majestic fox face, banana wrasse and I think that may be it.

All the same fish with the addition of the Potters and what else? I'm starting a wrasse dominated tank soon. Any advice? Or wrasses you wish you never got?

 

[watchguy123]

All the same fish with the addition of the Potters and what else? I'm starting a wrasse dominated tank soon. Any advice? Or wrasses you wish you never got?

I recently added the chaoti and feminus. both are amazing beauties. My mystery and leopard after two years disappeared while I was away for two weeks. Every time I am away, something disappears: fish, coral something. all the fish get along, there is no detectable aggression except the vanuatta exquisite will sometimes dominate the banana wrasse which is probably a good thing. Really happy with all the fish in the tank--no real meannies

 

[A.G]

Man your live stock are super !

Dont you feel its time time to upgrade? Its getting pretty crowded
over there lol

Where is that hot blue polyp nasuta ?? Its one of my fav.

 

[watchguy123]

 

[watchguy123]

I had the following on a separate thread but thought maybe it really should be included in here, sorry about the duplication.
I did a little surgery on my strawberry shortcake last month because it was growing in such a way that the front view was being blocked out by its belly. Thought you might like to see how it went:

So here is a view of my strawberry shortcake in July 2013 before surgery:


Incision line (not for the squeamish)



Remaining colony minus the amputated portion:


the amputated portion in hand (literally)



Glued in place with zap glue and a paper cup to hold it in place till the zap gel sets


Close up of it glued in place


Now the one month post up, August 2013


One month, healed close up, August 2013


And now I can enjoy the colony from the front view. Yeah.

 

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Glued in place with zap glue and a paper cup to hold it in place till the zap gel sets

That is an excellent idea!! Thank you very much.

Great looking tank by the way!

 

[watchguy123]

I was doing maintenance on the tank today and lifted the canopy up to clean out the overflow boxes. I thought of a recent set of vendor pictures where Jason Fox showed some of his tanks from the top without a view box, just right through the water. It causes a funny sheen on the pictures but it is a pretty cool view. So....

 

[jacek_marine]

I love this thread.
Regards from Poland.
Jacek

 

[watchguy123]

Got the day off today and so here are a few pictures, halides off, just lit by t5's

 

[h.cordero]

Love you tank! Hope that one day a could have a tank like that!

 

[Acronic]

Beautiful.

 

[biggles]

Those top downs are stunning mate, really beautiful mix of colors placed well for contrast

 

[watchguy123]

Love you tank! Hope that one day a could have a tank like that!

Beautiful.

Those top downs are stunning mate, really beautiful mix of colors placed well for contrast

Thanks for the kind compliments everyone.

So a couple pictures,

My camera shy borbonius anthia, her partner is already hiding and she is fleeing the camera already!


these frags have been in the tank for a few weeks I think and now I have to figure out where they are going. They are just beginning to encrust over their glue.

pinky the bear


blue horrida and I can't capture the blue or the slightly yellow colored polyps


Aqua sd rainbow millie on the left and reef raft cj pinky on the right


reef raft the vinh

 

[mylittlejade]

Pictures look good as always. I need your coral source for that CJ pinky mark, I want!!

 

[watchguy123]

I just got a new magnet and it really helped clean the side glass so these are some pretty side shots, something that I have not tried in a long time.

View from the right side glass panel:


it was so fun another similar pic from the right side panel view:


higher up on the right side panel:


Lower down on the right side panel:


View from the left side panel:

 

[h.cordero]

Beatifull pictures.
What powerheads are you using?

 

[watchguy123]

Beatifull pictures.
What powerheads are you using?

I am using the WP40's by Jebao, they replaced my tunze 6105's. And I like them a lot. Lot of bang for the buck.

Thought I'd share a FTS

 

[biggles]

Those end panel shots are awesome mate but the new FTS is a field of dreams :thumbsup: Those new frags all look to be happy campers judging by the PE and encrusting growth. Do most frags come freshly glued or encrusted from commercial suppliers and do you think it matters as far as survivability going into a new system. Sorry to bug you but i have no experience with buying frags and wanted to pick your brains if you don't mind.

I'm glad you took the second right end shot, stunning colors including the fish

 

[Charley Diesing]

Those end panel shots are awesome mate but the new FTS is a field of dreams :thumbsup: Those new frags all look to be happy campers judging by the PE and encrusting growth. Do most frags come freshly glued or encrusted from commercial suppliers and do you think it matters as far as survivability going into a new system. Sorry to bug you but i have no experience with buying frags and wanted to pick your brains if you don't mind.

I'm glad you took the second right end shot, stunning colors including the fish

IME encrusted frags have always done much better. But I think thats mainly because they're one step closer to being a colony. A small step, but non the less, a step.

They've gotten past a lot of RTN STN that often happens with frags. So if you can get encrusted, GET ENCRUSTED! Just my take.