D'oh. Ah well, they are still pretty. How does one tell the difference?

One just asks Daniel

Love the 'nem pics Kim

Thanks, Richie.

Little one has attached to the pebble firmly, and reacts very quickly to touch, so I'm pretty sure it'll heal up soon. It was somehow ripped from the mouth all the way down through the foot.. The temp is down to 69F.

Nice Tank Lalani!

Thanks!
Not sure what I had updated last, before the data loss, but the nems are doing well. The little one has a fully reformed mouth now and is healing up quickly. Almost looks whole.

Tank is brown with diatoms... I need snails..

yeah schweet tank, coldwater is da bomb. I can't imagine a coldwater with diatoms, weird.

Loving the nems...

Thanks guys.
Well, the water is only around 67F right now, so it's not really cold yet... Tank is solid rust color. I'll take pics as soon as my cam batteries finish charging.

amazing tank! amazing pics! amazing Lalani ! more pics please!

The diatoms were actually worse than this. I brought the temp down a few more degrees and did a waterchange though..





Bad focus on this little one, but you can kinda see the new tentacles in the front:


It has a fully formed mouth and eats now, and the foot is almost completely healed.

Nice pic's Kim. What you shooting with ???

Thanks! Canon 350D (XT) and Canon 100mm f2.8 macro.

A couple of better shots. (Yes, Jer, I turned off the pumps for these. )
The coloration of the larger one seems to be altering a bit.. it's moving towards a more pink color and white dots are appearing on certain tentacles..

hehe, I saw em. I was all, those are ugly, kim!

lol

Darn phantom attachments.

I am just so in awe of your photography skills. I keep trying to not think that if I get a better camera maybe mine will................. because I recognize that you've got an artistic eye that I just don't have.
this is the best I've done in weeks with my new baby.

Oh goddamit. I should have had you ship the crab to "psychosis" haha.

The warath/beadlet/red tentacley things look awesome still.

Thank! And yes, it's more about the skills you acquire rather than what camera equipment you use. Just read up as much as possible and play with all the features on the camera. The biggest help I had when learning about photography was the camera manual... along with technical websites. Only after I learned how to use a camera, did I start learning about composition and all that other good stuff. Just stick with it!
That's a good shot, btw.

OMG... This picher is !!!

Thanks.

so what exactly is a cold water tank and what can you keep in it?

Cold water, generally about 56 degress (on average from what I've seen) allows you to keep live stock from reefs outside of the tropics, like what you find on most of the American coast line. You generally keep 'nems, true cold water coral is rare. There is a ton of cool stuff that most people aren't aware exist outside of the tropical reef ecosystem.

What Psyco said!


And take a look at this sticky: http://www.nano-reef.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=164213

Stunning Lani, really great work, like a piece of art. I'm subscribing just to keep staring at your nems, they are one of my favs.

Thanks for the CW thread link, starting to go through it now. To help get me jump started on cold water research, I do have a couple of basic questions.

Are these nem's a different type/breed than what people keep in their standard SW nano tanks here on NR?
Do the same basic principles of filtration (even as far as sump and fuge setups), flow and lighting apply to CW?

Thanks!

-james

Thanks, James!

I'm definitely not the right person to ask about the species, lol, but yes.. the anemones you will find in temperate and coldwater regions are different species from the tropicals. However, some nems can handle extreme differences in temp.. take for example the two I have.. they were kept in tropical temps before I acquired them with no ill-effects.


Coldwater set ups are slightly different. If you look through the tank threads listed in that stickied thread, you'll see some different types. Just as in tropical tanks, equipment needed depends on what you want to keep.

Dammit Kim, after seeing those last 'nem shots I'm dead-set convinced on getting a macro now!


Tank looks good, even if it's doing the Eukaryote boogie!

The whatkindofboogie?
I just bought a new lens.

Whoa, ya can't juss up and drop something like dat..... SPILL IT SWEETIE!

Whatcha get buddeh????

Well there was a whole discussion about it in my latest photo forum thread.
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM...... Yeahhhhh, my first wide angle lens.

sowwy, didn't get that far in my reading yet.




Awrite! cool new toy for you, cool new pichers for the rest of us. win-win.

'grats K!

Haha, no problem, Richie boy. I know you're busy.
You better be practicing with your new camera!

It's what Diatoms are! And they're dancin' all over your ####!




The 10-20 is soft in a lot of circumstances (full light being its biggest offender), especially around the middle of the zoom range when stopped down, and is pretty bad for chromatic aberration across most of the range. It does work better for longer exposures if you're gonna have it wide open I've found.

That being said, I'm sure you'll find yourself at minimum zoom with the aperture pushed down a little a lot of the time. When you do it's a bloody good lens to have!

You sure we're talking about the same lens? Majority of the reviews say differently, except in the cases of bad copies.

I'm certain! I've used three of 'em, two EF mount and one for the Nikon mount, on all different kinds of bodies (20D, 1DmkIII, 5DmkII... even a few Nikon ones!). Those were the issues I've found with them (although admittedly inconsistently in terms of the chroma issues), though I dare say you probably will use your lens a lot differently to how I do. Not knocking the lens itself, at all because it's beautiful overall and I desperately want one, but in some situations it wasn't as nice as I hoped. Hell, compared to the competition the only thing which gets properly close is the Tokina 12-24, but from what I've seen that lens' aberration is pretty terrible a bulk of the time. Either that, or I've just been spoiled seeing L-series photos all the time. I think it might be a combination of the two

Aha! There's the problem.


The Tokina was on my list of possibles also, but the Sigma ultimately won out. We'll see what kind of copy I get (hopefully a good one!). Btw, it was scheduled for delivery on Monday... but it's on the truck right now... practically a few blocks down the road!!!!

You need more stuff in there!!!

I am jealous of the nems though, mine aren't that deep red. But I do have feather dusters haha

Yeah, but you'll send me some stuffs when the weather cools, right?
If these nems reproduce, you'll be at the top of the list for babies.

Yep you and Jamie (unless in college) will be getting at least one feather duster. And maybe some other stuff that I might throw in, snails crabs etc.

Haha cool, always love baby nems

Updates!

yeah, lani! Your really slackin.

Nothing to update, really. The tank looks kind of dirty, but the nems are growing really well.

you need some new stuff!

i want one!

are there any cold water fish you could put in?

In the next couple of months, when the weather cools off, hopefully!


Yeah, I plan on putting one or two fish in there.

what kind of cold water inverts could go in a tank like that?

Cold water species of crabs, snails, chitons, etc. Take a look through the other tanks linked in the resource guide (biotope forum sticky) and they should give you an idea of what can be kept.

Theres much more than that Lani

Coldwater is actually way more diverse than warmwater, its hard to believe but its true.

Yeah, that's what etcetera means.

japanese spider crabs.