Trying out my Macro...

[Pufferpunk]

...before the dive trip to the Caymans this week:

Top zoa colony fro our esteemed Pres, Doug, bottom zoa from Rod. Still can't get the focus right. :mad2:

I think the pinks are frim LadyPig, dunno the name of the wavy white coral (that's from Butch), clam from Sharkys, blue rics from Yolanda

Chalice form Rods

One of my favorites--I think it might be a brain? (from Zoolander)

Pink Yuma, from Yolanda

Zoas (fire & ice?) & a huge flat rock, covered in tulip anemones, all
from Yolanda

Just hangin out!

 

[Pufferpunk]

My photography skills are still really crappy!

 

[hansnfrans]

Try again on the pic of the zoas from Doug. Very interested to see what they look like, can't tell from pic. Have you tried a tripod yet? Also, killing the powerheads/flow in the tank may help. With high flow, camera may mistakingly focus on a piece of debris or airbubbles that are flying by and repeatedly screw up your focus of the intended subject.

 

[Pufferpunk]

I'll try for a better pic tommorow or Tuesday. Looking for a frag? Those pink speckles come out under my actinics.

 

[flapjack1439]

Try manual focus and changing your f stop (I don't remeber which way) will increase your depth of field to get them all in focus.

 

[Pufferpunk]

Using manual focus (super macro) I still need to fool w/f-stop more.

 

[hansnfrans]

"Looking for a frag"

Always lookin' for frags of colorful zoas . It's by far my favorite type of coral.

 

[Pufferpunk]

That one I'm willing to frag, cause it's a big colony. Most of my zoas are still frags themselves...

 

[hansnfrans]

Yeah I'm in the same boat as you. Pretty much all of my zoas are frags. Waitin' for 'em to grow some more so that I could do some trading. Any ideas on how to get them to grow faster. I've heard that adding Lugol's to the tank will help speed up growth, but unfortunately it is a double-edged sword in that it will also cause algae growth to speed up if you have PO4 or NO3 problems. Trying to figure out what levels of Ca+, Alk, and Mg2+ that they will really thrive in

 

[Pufferpunk]

Mine were doing somewhat poorly for a long while--lost entire colonies. Now some of them are coming back & others are multiplying. I'm not doing anything different... Actually my PC bulbs are gettign really old. The zoas are stretching. I was hoping to upgrade in June, so didn't want to bother getting new bulbs for a light I was just gonna sell. Got a great deal on bulbs, so putting them in hopefully tomorrow.

 

[Pufferpunk]

You're welcome to frags of any of my larger colonies.