HM3105 Posted December 31, 2016 Share Posted December 31, 2016 Thanks! How is yours coming along ? Oh slowly. Built the electrical shelf. Picking up my lights tomorrow. You know the usual. I'm trying not to freak out about moving my existing tank across the room. 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 I love your ascending wall of zoas and palys! 1 Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 I love your ascending wall of zoas and palys! Thanks was actually trying to do one section of zoas only and another with some SPS......well there mixed now so will see how it all works out when they grow together. Still after a few more gorgonians......may even add a little more flat or lower rock behind so I can put a few more things in there. I have a pretty good dead space in the middle of the tank at least 10" or so till the back glass. Having a 30"deep tank is nice. 3 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 I forgot your tank was so deep, you must have all kinds of room on the sandbed compared to a regular tank. 1 Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 I forgot your tank was so deep, you must have all kinds of room on the sandbed compared to a regular tank. Oh yeah I have a nice area for GSP it cant touch a thing..........all my plates and scolys are in the sand its great. was doing a little feeding tonight.....cant wait to see what I can do with a camera the colors are just to washed out on the plates and the scoly..... and last the dendro......I think this is one of my favorites in the tank. Have had it for a year and now has 4 heads coming off the main stalk now. 5 Quote Link to comment
shaneandjohn Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Looking great sir! Dendro looks nice and happy..... 1 Quote Link to comment
Rehype Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Wow Awesome job spectra....love the scape and stocking. 1 Quote Link to comment
DaveFason Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Dendro is fire! Looking great Scott. 1 Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Added a few new pieces today.............yeah I know some people don't like sticks but I do don't ask the name as I forgot about 2 mins after leaving the shop And another one....... Also picked up 3 polyps of scrambled eggs and now have 3 babies popping out............. Also stopped buy a local vendor and well this is just one of many tanks Hopefully better pics coming soon.........Got a camera from Teeny but need to figure it out I am a simple person and well time will tell how it all works out 6 Quote Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Looking good!!!! I like the new stuff! 1 Quote Link to comment
Newstead Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Beautiful corals! 1 Quote Link to comment
Nola Bear Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Not much right now. I have the purple tang, 5 or 6 chromis, randalls goby, a mini geodsic hawk, starry blenny, opossum wrasse, fairy wrasse and a full size about 3 1/2" fox face in there now. Plus I have a few that could go in from another tank........they were all together at one time in my garage tank. Any issues with foxface nipping corals? Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Looking good!!!! I like the new stuff! Beautiful corals! Thanks! Any issues with foxface nipping corals? Nothing yet has been a model citizen in the tank. Its also the biggest fish in there. Also one of the most scared ones in the tank.....walk into the room and it goes and hides. 3 Quote Link to comment
shaneandjohn Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Nice new additions Sir.. now get that new Camera figured out!! You can do it..... 3 Quote Link to comment
ReefWeeds Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Nice new additions Sir.. now get that new Camera figured out!! You can do it..... Yeah, what he said We have faith. 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 My first couple months of pictures with the DSLR kinda sucked, but the more I did it the better it got. Especially once I realized it was OK to take like a hundred pictures just to get three decent ones. It's not like it costs money to take more pictures But if you've only used a cell phone camera, there's a big learning curve just in figuring out how to get pictures off the camera, processed, and uploaded. Once you want to move beyond automatic/no flash, try this: Set the lights to photo mode, with whites at the same level as the blues, or even higher. Set white balance on the camera to automatic. Set to "A" (aperture priority mode). Set ISO to 200 or 400. Set aperture between 5 and 8. Take a picture. If it's too bright (usually it will be), adjust the exposure down one stop (-0.3). If it's too dark, adjust exposure up one stop. Try again, see how it looks. Depending on whether I'm doing top down or from the front, I usually have to adjust the exposure as much as +/- 1.0. This sounds like a lot, but once you set it once, the only setting I usually have to change is the exposure. It will be too blue with automatic white balance. There are ways to adjust it with a reference picture in the camera but I've never gotten that to work very well. If you adjust the white balance on the computer it turns out a lot better. It's pretty much the same in all photo editors, tell it to adjust white balance using a selector (in Lightoom it's little eye dropper), and click on something in the picture that should be grey or white but looks blue or purple. Usually I click on the sand if it's in the picture. That usually gets is pretty close, and then I usually adjust the blue slider to make it just a touch more blue. Finally, adjust the exposure in the photo editor up or down so that it looks right to your eye. If you take pictures with the camera saving as JPG, you'll get JPG files from the camera that can be viewed or uploaded without using an editor. That's a good way to go to get started since it's simpler and you don't have to mess with them. When you start using a photo editor, you can make limited adjustments with JPG files. When you get more comfortable, start saving the pictures as unprocessed RAW files. You can fix the white balance much better that way, as well as the exposure and everything else. When I first started doing this stuff it was really intimidating and I thought it was going to be way to hard to do it all the time. But after a couple weeks spent trying things and reading the manual and doing some Googling, it got way easier. Now I can set up the camera in about five seconds, and then about another five or ten minutes to do the stuff on the computer before it's ready to go on Flickr and posted on NR. 3 Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 My first couple months of pictures with the DSLR kinda sucked, but the more I did it the better it got. Especially once I realized it was OK to take like a hundred pictures just to get three decent ones. It's not like it costs money to take more pictures But if you've only used a cell phone camera, there's a big learning curve just in figuring out how to get pictures off the camera, processed, and uploaded. Once you want to move beyond automatic/no flash, try this: Set the lights to photo mode, with whites at the same level as the blues, or even higher. Set white balance on the camera to automatic. Set to "A" (aperture priority mode). Set ISO to 200 or 400. Set aperture between 5 and 8. Take a picture. If it's too bright (usually it will be), adjust the exposure down one stop (-0.3). If it's too dark, adjust exposure up one stop. Try again, see how it looks. Depending on whether I'm doing top down or from the front, I usually have to adjust the exposure as much as +/- 1.0. This sounds like a lot, but once you set it once, the only setting I usually have to change is the exposure. It will be too blue with automatic white balance. There are ways to adjust it with a reference picture in the camera but I've never gotten that to work very well. If you adjust the white balance on the computer it turns out a lot better. It's pretty much the same in all photo editors, tell it to adjust white balance using a selector (in Lightoom it's little eye dropper), and click on something in the picture that should be grey or white but looks blue or purple. Usually I click on the sand if it's in the picture. That usually gets is pretty close, and then I usually adjust the blue slider to make it just a touch more blue. Finally, adjust the exposure in the photo editor up or down so that it looks right to your eye. If you take pictures with the camera saving as JPG, you'll get JPG files from the camera that can be viewed or uploaded without using an editor. That's a good way to go to get started since it's simpler and you don't have to mess with them. When you start using a photo editor, you can make limited adjustments with JPG files. When you get more comfortable, start saving the pictures as unprocessed RAW files. You can fix the white balance much better that way, as well as the exposure and everything else. When I first started doing this stuff it was really intimidating and I thought it was going to be way to hard to do it all the time. But after a couple weeks spent trying things and reading the manual and doing some Googling, it got way easier. Now I can set up the camera in about five seconds, and then about another five or ten minutes to do the stuff on the computer before it's ready to go on Flickr and posted on NR. Holy shit its a novel I will read it all in the morning..............just watched Grimm and ready for bed............getting old sucks 3 Quote Link to comment
Bowen1022 Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 Hopefully better pics coming soon.........Got a camera from Teeny but need to figure it out I am a simple person and well time will tell how it all works out Whose shop is this? Crazy frags lol. Tank is looking great 1 Quote Link to comment
FlowerMama Posted January 7, 2017 Share Posted January 7, 2017 I've never seen that many frags at once. I don't see that here in NC unless I go 2.5 hrs away to Charlotte. 3 Quote Link to comment
urbaneks Posted March 3, 2017 Share Posted March 3, 2017 I love seeing the photos of your cabinet. You did a great job on it. Quote Link to comment
HM3105 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 On 1/7/2017 at 1:00 AM, Bowen1022 said: Whose shop is this? Crazy frags lol. Tank is looking great Yup I want to know this too, my wife and I are planning a trip (maybe) to your neck of the woods.... Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 Goldenbasket Reef.............................. Many of my zoas and also RFAs came from Rudy................................ 1 Quote Link to comment
HM3105 Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Just now, spectra said: Goldenbasket Reef.............................. Many of my zoas and also RFAs came from Rudy................................ Excellent.... Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, HM3105 said: Excellent.... Only open certain hours though............ Quote Link to comment
spectra Posted April 2, 2017 Author Share Posted April 2, 2017 Well been a while but the tank is doing great! Added a few more sticks and a few other pieces...........stopped by my local dealer today and well came home with a few new pieces...........and a fish......... Here are a few pics but new stuff is floating and needs to be dipped. 10 Quote Link to comment
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