GtTap Posted October 6, 2013 Share Posted October 6, 2013 GtTaps Mixed Reef Equipment 75 Gallon RW (Else mode) and a $10 special lol Apex Lite with PH Probe and VDM Livestock 1 Percula Clown fish Six-line Wrasse 2 Blue Green Chromis Hermit Crabs (Blue, Red) Scarlet Snails ( Astraea Turbo, Nassarius and Margaritas) Corals Softies Zoas Mushrooms Ricordias Yumas LPS Pink Tip Frogspawn Acans Favia Gold torch Duncan War coral SPS Ponape paradise Green Birdsnest Acros Link to comment
markalot Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 You need to keep us updated more often! I don't remember, did you post in the 20 long thread as well? Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Tank drilled and diy overflow installed. I need one more bulkhead for return then its tank switching time. Link to comment
Lalani Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great video! Everything looks happy and healthy, can't wait to see the drilled tank in its place Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 16, 2014 Author Share Posted January 16, 2014 Great video! Everything looks happy and healthy, can't wait to see the drilled tank in its place Thank you. Im thinking about doing a bigger stand and using the display tank as a sump/frag tank. Link to comment
t8raff Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 i agree with lalani, everything in the video looks great. Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 18, 2014 Author Share Posted January 18, 2014 Can i use the same sand i have in my display now when i switch over to the drilled tank? Link to comment
markalot Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Can i use the same sand i have in my display now when i switch over to the drilled tank? I wouldn't see why not, as long as it's a shallow sandbed. Link to comment
TheKleinReef Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 looks awesome GT! i've always liked tanks with a low aquascape. i may change mine around to be lower. i am a sucker for taller tanks with short wide rockscapes. Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 looks awesome GT! i've always liked tanks with a low aquascape. i may change mine around to be lower. i am a sucker for taller tanks with short wide rockscapes. Tall tank makes it hard for me to sleep at nights im always thinking about aquascaping the best hangovers and caves lmaoo. i was going to switch back to my 29 gallon but i found a crack in the glass. Im switching over to my drilled 20 long when ever im done figuring out these durso to stop the air sucking sound. Link to comment
Steelen Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Love the look of your plate. Something about the low aquascape makes me like it. Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Anyone with a nikon D3100 can give me some tips to take some good pics. thanks. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Anyone with a nikon D3100 can give me some tips to take some good pics. thanks. Oh boy, where to start. The D3100 has some annoying limitations when taking closeup and macro shots, but it is capable of taking mighty fine pics. You will want to review the manual page by page so you know all the modes and how to adjust them, this is key. For any decent tank shot, you will want to use a tripod, turn off all pumps, and then use a small aperture to increase the focal plane (which will also reduce shutter speed). Set your ISO to 100 and turn off auto ISO. Set the camera to use RAW+JPG shot mode, you will want to edit the RAW images and save then to JPG once everything looks good. I use a free image editor for RAW files, RAWTherapee http://rawtherapee.com/ Many people buy Adobe Lightroom, which is a fantastic easy to use editor. Set your camera white balance to daylight ( so it doesn't go crazy). Once you choose daylight you can right arrow into a fine tuner to further adjust the shot color balance. This will apply a white balance to the JPG files and be applied to the RAW image when you view it, giving you a good starting point, but you can adjust it however you want later. Remember, RAW files contain the RAW image captured by the CMOS sensor and a section of parameters used to adjust that image. When you make a change you are not actually modifying the image but rather adjusting these parameters. The original parameters are not touched and can be recalled if you need to start over. That's the beauty of RAW images. In short, it's not so much the camera that needs to be figured out but the general 'how to take good tank photos' that's the primary issue. For fish, which move, you will want to balance a good shutter speed with as small an aperture as you can to get the shot. FOr fish I usually raise ISO to 400 so I have some more room to work. Specific to the 3100, when taking tripod shots, turn on preview mode by flipping the level on the back of the camera. This raises the lens and it will stay up during shots, eliminating some of the extra vibration created when the lens raises and drops. That said, the 3100 still goes through a lot of mechanical motions that can create vibration, which prevents some macro shots from being as sharp as they could be. Good luck! Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Oh boy, where to start. The D3100 has some annoying limitations when taking closeup and macro shots, but it is capable of taking mighty fine pics. You will want to review the manual page by page so you know all the modes and how to adjust them, this is key. For any decent tank shot, you will want to use a tripod, turn off all pumps, and then use a small aperture to increase the focal plane (which will also reduce shutter speed). Set your ISO to 100 and turn off auto ISO. Set the camera to use RAW+JPG shot mode, you will want to edit the RAW images and save then to JPG once everything looks good. I use a free image editor for RAW files, RAWTherapee http://rawtherapee.com/ Many people buy Adobe Lightroom, which is a fantastic easy to use editor. Set your camera white balance to daylight ( so it doesn't go crazy). Once you choose daylight you can right arrow into a fine tuner to further adjust the shot color balance. This will apply a white balance to the JPG files and be applied to the RAW image when you view it, giving you a good starting point, but you can adjust it however you want later. Remember, RAW files contain the RAW image captured by the CMOS sensor and a section of parameters used to adjust that image. When you make a change you are not actually modifying the image but rather adjusting these parameters. The original parameters are not touched and can be recalled if you need to start over. That's the beauty of RAW images. In short, it's not so much the camera that needs to be figured out but the general 'how to take good tank photos' that's the primary issue. For fish, which move, you will want to balance a good shutter speed with as small an aperture as you can to get the shot. FOr fish I usually raise ISO to 400 so I have some more room to work. Specific to the 3100, when taking tripod shots, turn on preview mode by flipping the level on the back of the camera. This raises the lens and it will stay up during shots, eliminating some of the extra vibration created when the lens raises and drops. That said, the 3100 still goes through a lot of mechanical motions that can create vibration, which prevents some macro shots from being as sharp as they could be. Good luck! Thanks alot mark! Looks like ill be taking some pics today pissing the wife off lmaoo. Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 23, 2014 Author Share Posted January 23, 2014 I strip off some 2x4 from pallets at work going to make a new stand to go with the drilled tank trying to do it right and make stand way bigger than tank so i can fit everything under stand. Link to comment
markalot Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 So how is the camera and photo editing going? Have you had a chance to mess around with the RAW images yet? Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 26, 2014 Author Share Posted January 26, 2014 So how is the camera and photo editing going? Have you had a chance to mess around with the RAW images yet? I took a few pics just haven't edited them yet. Ive been busy building new stand and working on the drilled tank getting it ready for the change out. Link to comment
GtTap Posted January 31, 2014 Author Share Posted January 31, 2014 Picked up my plumbing supplies and stand build almost done. Link to comment
GtTap Posted February 2, 2014 Author Share Posted February 2, 2014 Tank and stand swap done pics to come. That was roughhhhhhh. Link to comment
GtTap Posted February 3, 2014 Author Share Posted February 3, 2014 Test setup The new display under t5 for now. Link to comment
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