Beautiful !!!!!!

oh what the heck...let's post the rest















And for the grand finale....





Our role in this hobby!

Thanks, David! Tee hee, with these photos, I barely recognize my own tank!



Thanks, Wimby!

LOL@ Dan! I forgot about the lego man. After reading the article from the Times last week, my middle guy decided we should try to train the fish to associate him with food.

Those are really nice shots. Maybe you can teach me how to use my camera. The tank looks Great!!! Like I said before Beautiful!!!

Anne! Dan!

Great shots of a very beautiful reef!

'Grats to both of you!

Great stuff

Thats a truly inspiring photo

Thanks, Richie!

If you didn't see it (can't remember whose thread it was in), some of the NY area people were talking about trying to get together for a beer and tank talk--would you come into the city?



I agree--he's the guardian of the tank, yanno.

ZOMG!!!

!!!
ANOTHER GUARDIAN!
we should all have guardians for our tank!
im gonna have a bear guardian
from England...

PICS!! or I won't believe it. But I agree, we should all have designated tank guardians.

G'night all!

my Guardian...
(he's really from England but hes my bro's bear )

NIIIIIIICE!!!

LOL, I love your guardian, Nate!

Thanks, Weetie!

thanks Anne
PS ive been up all night... i hate being sick with insomnia

Oh, Nate. I'm sorry to hear that. I've had issues with insomnia on and off throughout my life. It is a bummer, to say the least. I hope you're able to get some rest today--so you can enjoy Halloween tonight!

thanks Anne. hopefully ill still be awake by tonight

HOLY CR@P!!! Those pictures are amazing!!!








Haut ... you using Photoshop or what?! I think I am going to have to investigate this tank just to be sure! KIDDING!

Amazing pics! Beautiful tank! PERFECT!!! ABSOLUTELY PERFECT!!! Congratulations!!!

Thanks, David! Haut is an amazing photographer, and I'd say about 90% of the success of my tank is due to you, sir.

Lightroom 2, lol. But I shoot to get the coloration as close as to what I remember seeing in person.

Those photos are amazing (and so is what's in the photos ).

You have a lot of very nice corals, that's for sure.

Haha I love the new trend of tank guardianz.

If anyone is interested, here's the direct link to the photos. You can download full versions or comment on them (no one ever comments on them on my site, lol).

http://www.danielhautamaki.com/Other/Annes...697700856_SPQME

Went back through and found 3 more - these aren't as good though:

Talk about up close and personal!

That's one heck of a trumpet coral!

I love how that cleaner shrimp looks like it's glowing - the RAW file looks like that too.

You know you want a guardian too--and there's no question--you needs a monkey!!!



Not as good??! You must not have had enough coffee yet today, they're fantastic!

I need a guardian

Guardianz!!
they're so aweosme.
Awesome pix Dhaut

Edit LOL i past 2k post on your thread! and i didnt even notice...

Hmmm, thinking of a good guardian for you...




GI Joe?

Got him!





thanks n-dog. time to leave the west coast and come east where the cool peeps live.

Tee hee! That's perfect!

And now, I must go walk my beast...errrr...dog.

LOL. when i grow i want to live in a state like nevada that doesnt experience natural disasters or bad weather too often...
the east coast is pretty cool though with the space center and NY. also has the biggest naval shipyard...which i neeeed to visit
the East coast motto should be "too much good stuff" like AMPM

come on out here then.

my mom actually lived out in Scranton PA (yekkno...where Bill Clintons parental units live ) for her residency...me and my family went to so many places like washington, new york, some divine mercy shrine in Massachusetts, Canada, Florida...yeahp....those were the days... well anyways yeah...its pretty cool out thar

I think I had the very first guardian! Although my guardian was of my Radioactive Gooberz, rather than the whole tank. I might have to look into a monkey guardian though!

thats true! the guardian of teh Gooberz! he was soo cool.
i think you should get a Curious George figure and use him.

True story! I think he handed the job off to one of the smaller guardians now. They apparently don't consider the job of guarding the gooberz as important now, given that there is an army to guard the tank these days.

I LOVE the Curious George idea--brilliant, Nate!

thanks you guys.

I just found my Collected Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay!
I'm sure I'll be browsing it for a while, but here's an old favorite I just found:

Siege

This I do, being mad:
Gather baubles about me,
Sit in a circle of toys, and all the time
Death beating the door in.

White jade and an orange pitcher,
Hindu idol, Chinese god, --
Maybe next year, when I'm richer--
Carved beads and a lotus pod....
And all this time
Death beating the door in.

Sorry Weetie, I just saw this now. Thanks for remembering and posting.

Beautiful poem, makes me think of us surrounding ourselves with corals. Our version of baubles?


Went to see my son's play last night. But first...

Mama went shopping!

I wage war on this thread until I find out what you bought!!!

I'm not teeell-lllllllllllling!

When the lights come on I'll take pics. Let's just say I convinced dh that Ocean Gallery II was an absolutely reasonable detour to make on the way to PA.

Dh?

Waiting for pics ... lol ... reasonable detour ... it is ... without a doubt!

Oh Fishtown JUST got some BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG Mandarins in ... saw them the other night ... I would wait a week or so just to weed out the weaker ones.

Sorry, dh is the term used on the other site I frequent. dh=dear husband, dw=dear wife, dd=dear daughter, etc

OOoooh! How much for the mandarins? Green or red? If they're reasonably priced, I WANT! Today! While I still have a couple of bucks left, and they haven't caught anything from being in the LFS.

hehehehe ... Yeah ... Some look pretty good ... some so-so ... but it was a fresh shipment I think from Thursday or so ... I am sure some have already kicked it by the time I go back ... Blue/Green Mandarins ... I think they were $25 or something like that.

Bring me a nice fat one tomorrow, please?

I will go and take a look today and see what's there ... or tomorrow morning before we leave ... I think they open around 10:30 ... I love fish stores with long hours. lol

You're my he-ro.

OG II ??? Anne you were so close!

Well, sort of anyway. That's where I bought my new tank.
Cool place right? Great improvements from a few years ago. The overall attitude is very friendly and I'm sure you noticed the health and quality of the critters. And they have jumped on the nano- band wagon by offering smaller frags. Yes, many others have as well, but it has been a long time coming.

Can't wait to see whatcha got

BTW, dh has a whole different meaning in " garage/technician speak".

and while you're there, price check blue legged hermits for me por favor. The store in manhattan has them for freakin' $5 each. screw that.

and at new fish!

Did you say I was your hero Haut? ummmmm ... no ... so

Kidding ... I will check them out ... They definitely won't be $5 each.