FTS!!!!!

WOW!!!! Real nice.

not expectin tank shots were ya??

blur is my bestestestestest friend



oi, gotta clean the glass first. you should see the crap i was shooting through




thanks

Pichers!

Very nice D.

Will we have to wait a few months for the next batch?

lol, probably not. macro lens is too much fun right now.

if all else fails, i'm planning a couple of collection trips for the summer, so i'll have new livestock that will have to be shown eventually

oooh... where you going?

I happen to be in so cal right now, and there are some monstruous anthopleura sola that are sooo tempting, but I'm a generally law abiding citizen so I refrain.

I'm still looking up the laws regarding collection, but Maryland and Delaware shorelines are a couple hours away. Far enough down the Chesapeake to get nearly oceanic salt levels is just over an hour's drive and Professor and I were discussing a trip down there - he wants to set up a local biotope and knows some good places to go for livestock.

I'm hoping to get further up in the Northeast as well, but finding time and money to get there is difficult going right now - especially since we decided to go back to Hawaii this summer. It's a longshot that I'll make it this summer, but it's at least on the radar.

There's usually a local aquarium club trip to the coast off New York and New Jersey where you can collect the seasonal tropicals that float up the coast (inlcuding lionfish) that I want to try out and grab whatever temperate fish they net (figuring I'll be the only one who cares about the coldwater fish).

Really crappy FTS:



It's amazing how boring the rocks look in the shots. There are several caves and a huge channel through them that you can't tell are there from looking at the photo

Looks nice to me.



Make stuff grow faster.

My weird hair algae strand is growing quickly... It's a good 4-5 inches long now

Actually, the strawberries are probably double what I first had...they're just so darned small they don't look much different

My purdy cory isn't doing so great.... not sure if he was damaged or just isn't happy with something, but he's fading away.

tank looks good!

and good luck collecting!

thanks jamie

A. equina study...

with 150mm macro and 2x teleconverter

...next time i use tripod...








































o, and strawberries too

:drool:

Nice

What beautiful shots Daniel!

Thanks guys


I think I'm gonna have to stop posting photos of the beadlets...getting too much competition for the ones that pop up on LiveAquaria.

Nice shots, Daniel Hawkins

Beautiful!!!!!

thanks...

long story about lightroom not cooperating suffice it to say...never tell it to watermark one pic unless you want them all to be watermarked in the beta version i obtained



thanks Sue

Same setup as the last ones, but I walked my lazy butt to the car and got the tripod this time...

Very nice. The contrasts are amazing on the berry pics. I like this one in particular:

I want those strawberries....

Test your chiller

Thanks Cliff




setup the stupid tank alreadyz

local dude found me a new beadlet!! to be delivered next week

Those A. Equina's are going to multiply like crazy you realise

I hope so. I gotta fill up a 36" x 18" space

The first group has produced a grand total of 1 baby in the past year or so. I think I need to feed more.

I really love this tank. You can use a little work on your photography skills Great photos man!

thanks!


news on the new A. equina: MIA at the store. No shipment this week, but they're expecting more in next week. Soon as Amber and I discuss, we'll be adding to the order.

Cool! How often are you feeding the one you have now (A.equina)?

Edit:Spelling.

cyclopeeze every day, mysis every other day. that'll be increased once i get around to adding something that at least resembles a filtration system to the tank. right now, it's just natural filtration



Expecting 3 new equinas now - red, orange, and yellow. supposed to get one of each color that comes in, so we'll see what happens early next week. hoping for a blue one ::

Yeah a blue one would be sweet!!! I'll keep my fingers too. Good Luck. Get that filtration upgraded.

Ok, so two choices.....:
10gal w/Ice Probe chiller (which I have)
or
20H w/a better chiller (which I would have to put out more money for)

All I want to keep for now are the strawberries.......... What to do.. what to do..

test ice probe. if it works, use that. you can upgrade later.

If you go the Ice Probe route, I would recommend running at least 2 on your 10 gal tank. I am running 2 ice probes on my 5.5, and the temp fluctuates from 57 - 63 degrees depending on the ambient temperature. Spring is here and soon summer the warmer months are coming. To prepare for the warmer temperatures, I will installing a third Ice Probe in the next week. I too want to to have strawberry anenomes, and I believe they are best keep at 55- 57 degrees. May I ask where you are getting your strawberries?

H

horusmachine - Srsly?
Hmm..............
Oh, and I'll be bumming strawberries from fellow NR members.

yours have any insulation?

Yes. I have the tank insulated with styrofoam on all sides and partially on the top.

How many layers?

Only one layer of 1\2 inch thick foam. Will more layers help?

We have 3 layers of 3/4" foam. Soon I'm going to rip it off and start over with greenboard, which has a higher insulation rating.

Hmm.......

I may try that.

Feeding time in the CW tank....just cyclopeeze though.
























even the baby beadlet popped open for food




here's a question...this is the new red beadlet, and I noticed last night it had a couple of funny bumps on it's column, about the same color as it's tentacles. It hasn't moved anywhere, and nothing has bumped into it, so I dunno what it is. You can see them on the left side of the column - the bright spot. Couldn't get a better pic last night because of where it's sitting. Anyone seen this before?

Looking great D. Those shots are awesome. I love this tank!

-Prof