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incysor

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Here's some of the pics I took over the last couple days.

Our newest fish. Gigantor the sunrise anthia. This is the largest SA I've seen. It's as big as our potters angel.



Tulip Anemone



Sea Pen Close up



Male clown in goniopora


Female in RBTA


Another Tulip anemone


X-mas tree worms


Cleaner goby and brain


Sun Coral


I almost submitted this for the photo contest.
Velvet Damsel and Zoos.


Sea Pen
 
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That sun coral is breathtaking. May I ask what you need to keep those alive as far as lighting is concerned?
 
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Those sun corals are awesome. Great pic! I can't believe they were extending their polyps that much with the lights on. Were you feeding them at the time of the picture?
 
Sugar Magnolia

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awesome pics!

those tulip anemones multiply like rabbits and can pack a pretty good sting. I just ended up getting rid of them all in my 2.5. I swear I must have had at least 50 of them...started with four.
 
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Sugar Magnolia said:
awesome pics!

those tulip anemones multiply like rabbits and can pack a pretty good sting. I just ended up getting rid of them all in my 2.5. I swear I must have had at least 50 of them...started with four.
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Interesting. Are you sure you didn't have majanos? My tulips have multiplied fairly rapidly. I started with about 5-7, and 7 months or so later I probably have closer to 50, but they don't seem to irritate anything. I've got leathers, zoos, anthelia, other large anemones, etc...all touching them, and nothing seems annoyed.

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Purple Haze said:
Where did the anthias come from?

Very nice
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I got it at City Pets during their anniversary sale a couple weekends ago. I got it for $36. It's easily twice the size of any other one I've seen in town. It stayed in the rockwork for the first 3-4 days, but now it's out ans swimming around with everyone else. It's still a little bit skittish if you get too close to the tank, but now it tends to just go around to the other side of the tank/rockwork rather than dive inside the middle of it and hide.

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imsuperjp said:
what are your camera setting for you pictures?
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I've got an olympus 5050, nearly all these shots were using the macro setting, with my ISO setting at 64, the exception was the velvet damsel/zoo shot. My ISO was set at 400 for that, because I was trying to capture the leather's sweeper tentacle when the damsel swam into the frame. The higher your ISO the better you can capture things in motion without blurring. I also have to reset my white balance for each tank, since they each have different lights.

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Phischy said:
That sun coral is breathtaking. May I ask what you need to keep those alive as far as lighting is concerned?
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djconn said:
Those sun corals are awesome. Great pic! I can't believe they were extending their polyps that much with the lights on. Were you feeding them at the time of the picture?
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:mrgreen:

I love that sun coral. The pic is the entirety of it. It's tiny. I've had it for just over two years as it's one of the first corals I got. actually at the time of the picture I hadn't fed yet. I try to take shots before or much, much after I feed, it cuts down on the stuff floating around in the water, so you get clearer shots. As for the sun coral they're very low-light corals, so if you have really high lights it's best to put them in a nice shadowy spot. Many folks don't like them because there's a lot of info out that says you have to spot-feed them. I DO spot feed them, but in a very lazy manner. When I feed any frozen food I thaw it out in a cup of tank water, and use a turkey baster to squirt it around the tanks. This happens 3-4 times a week. I generally feed close to 7pm when I get home from work. The sun coral is in a very low-flow, somewhat shaded part of the tank, and when I feed I just make sure to squirt some down in that area of the tank. It took about 2-3 weeks of feeding this way, and it started coming out about the same time each day whether there was food in the water or not. It will also extend the polyps if it senses food in the water. It seems to like cyclopeze and there's defintely been more extension/reaction since I've started using it. It appears much happier than the first year and a half I had it, before cylcopeze. Sometimes on the weekend I'll feed during the day instead of in the evening, so I'll put a couple drops of food into the tank, then do something else for 10-15mins to give it time to get it's polyps extended, then I'll sqirt it.

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How are you keeping your goniopora alive? i just bough a small rock (at a discount price), ive run into no real problems as of yet, but i havent had it very long. Ive heard that its almost impossible to keep alive
 
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I didn't buy it. It was given to me by a reefer that was moving. I bought a lot of his liverock, and a couple other corals, and he gave it to me. I mentioned to him that I'd heard they were nearly impossible to keep alive, and that I'd tried an alveopora and it hadn't made it. He said that he'd heard the same things after he bought it, but that it had already survived a tank crash, and two moves. It survived my tank move ok, and appears to be doing fine.

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YMCA said:
OMG those shots are amazing how does the damzal go with other fish
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All damsels either start off agressive, or get agressive as they get larger. I specifically bought this one because velvet damsels are known to eat flatworms...This one didn't of course. I'm going to borrow a trap and pull it out of the tank before much longer. Same thing goes for my six-line wrasse.
Neither one of them ate a single flatworm as far as I can tell.

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truly amazing. I like how the goby is just chillin'. I have that guy and he's awesome. That ISO settings really make a huuuge difference. I'll have to look into my camera further on messing around with that. My last lesson was messing with the white balance :)
 
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Incredible pictures, I really don't know how you get such great macro pics all the time. I swear you should send these prints to reef mags, they'd be really impressed. :wink:

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Thanks for the compliments guys. The funny thing is the more I learn about it the less happy I am with my shots. :lol:

But that's what practice is for right?

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