vol_reefer
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Hi all,
I've finally rounded up photos of some colonies I have available for fragging - several posts with pictures and prices will follow.
I'd prefer to do all my sales pre-arranged because I don't have enough room in my tank to house any unsold frags after the swap, plus I don't want to hack things up unnecessarily. Except where noted below, my default option will be to provide freshly-cut, unmounted frags because that's how I prefer to get them from others. However, if anyone prefers, I can mount their frags to ceramic plugs. I will cut frags from the parent colonies to fill orders until I don't think I should cut any more, and if there are more requests than frags, I will distribute them in the order the requests came in. Some of these colonies aren't so large yet, so I won't be cutting more than one or two frags from those.
Aside from a few annoying aipstasia anemones, my tank is free of pests so far as I know. Full disclosure: my tang did have a minor case of ich about 5 or 6 weeks ago, but on a metronidazole-infused diet, it seems to have gone away now. In any case, neither the aipstasia nor ich should be any kind of risk factor with fresh-cut frags. Several ETRC members have frags from my tank and can vouch for their health. One of the LFSs also sells frags from my tank.
All photos were taken under 20K lighting (2x400W plus 1x250W HQI on a 5' long tank), upgraded from 14Ks about three weeks ago. I've done no post-processing of the photos other than cropping, rotating, and re-sizing - nothing that would affect the colors. Some of the photos were taken with a Canon Eos 40D using either a zoom or macro lens, set for auto white balance. The others were taken with a Canon SD800 using its "underwater" setting, which I think does compensate a bit for the blue in the lights, but not excessively. Some of the SD800 shots were taken with the camera in the tank using an underwater housing, and a few others were taken through an Ogles mesoscope for extreme close-ups. The sequence the frags are presented in below goes roughly from left to right across the tank.
Here's a full tank shot to give the overview.
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jemoersch/ETRCSwap08/photo#5208318347118259554"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/jemoersch/SEep8R0iLWI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/MqI8LJAzq1A/s800/FTS.jpg" /></a>
There are many colonies in my tank that I'm not specifically listing for frag sales, but if you see something you really want you can always ask - if nothing else, I can put you on my list for when it grows out more.
I'm interested in trades, but because my tank space is so limited I have to be really selective. If you've got some good stuff and see something you want from me, drop me a PM.
Jeff (vol_reefer)
I've finally rounded up photos of some colonies I have available for fragging - several posts with pictures and prices will follow.
I'd prefer to do all my sales pre-arranged because I don't have enough room in my tank to house any unsold frags after the swap, plus I don't want to hack things up unnecessarily. Except where noted below, my default option will be to provide freshly-cut, unmounted frags because that's how I prefer to get them from others. However, if anyone prefers, I can mount their frags to ceramic plugs. I will cut frags from the parent colonies to fill orders until I don't think I should cut any more, and if there are more requests than frags, I will distribute them in the order the requests came in. Some of these colonies aren't so large yet, so I won't be cutting more than one or two frags from those.
Aside from a few annoying aipstasia anemones, my tank is free of pests so far as I know. Full disclosure: my tang did have a minor case of ich about 5 or 6 weeks ago, but on a metronidazole-infused diet, it seems to have gone away now. In any case, neither the aipstasia nor ich should be any kind of risk factor with fresh-cut frags. Several ETRC members have frags from my tank and can vouch for their health. One of the LFSs also sells frags from my tank.
All photos were taken under 20K lighting (2x400W plus 1x250W HQI on a 5' long tank), upgraded from 14Ks about three weeks ago. I've done no post-processing of the photos other than cropping, rotating, and re-sizing - nothing that would affect the colors. Some of the photos were taken with a Canon Eos 40D using either a zoom or macro lens, set for auto white balance. The others were taken with a Canon SD800 using its "underwater" setting, which I think does compensate a bit for the blue in the lights, but not excessively. Some of the SD800 shots were taken with the camera in the tank using an underwater housing, and a few others were taken through an Ogles mesoscope for extreme close-ups. The sequence the frags are presented in below goes roughly from left to right across the tank.
Here's a full tank shot to give the overview.
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jemoersch/ETRCSwap08/photo#5208318347118259554"><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/jemoersch/SEep8R0iLWI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/MqI8LJAzq1A/s800/FTS.jpg" /></a>
There are many colonies in my tank that I'm not specifically listing for frag sales, but if you see something you really want you can always ask - if nothing else, I can put you on my list for when it grows out more.
I'm interested in trades, but because my tank space is so limited I have to be really selective. If you've got some good stuff and see something you want from me, drop me a PM.
Jeff (vol_reefer)
