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Mr. Microscope's JBJ Picotope


Mr. Microscope

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Very Nice! So you got better coral expansion and growth because you put the light at a slight angle instead of directly overhead?

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woah i can see how the zoas got much better!

 

very nice tank it is starting to become :D

 

and i love that shroom.

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Very Nice! So you got better coral expansion and growth because you put the light at a slight angle instead of directly overhead?

I think it has more to do with the light being higher and a general lowering in overall par. Less photo inhibition.

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I think it has more to do with the light being higher and a general lowering in overall par. Less photo inhibition.

Oh cool :)

I love the new look of the corals! :D

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tanks looks awesome micro!!! sorry to hear about blue lightning. i think you and i aren't meant to have fish. lol.

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Thanks!

 

Yup. I'd have to agree with that. I'm perfectly happy with my corals for now.

 

quoted for documentation purposes.

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Hello All,

 

This Sunday was a lazy day. So, I decided to take out some polymer clay and see what I could do. 7 hours later, I ended up with this!

 

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It took me a while to figure out how to make a zoa look acceptable. I started with the colony, made the rock (complete with coralline algae), and decided to add the fish after that. I even had some sparkly clay for the damsel which worked out very well. The zoas are something like a flaming people eater and the fish is a male blue damsel (orange tail damsel). I'm thinking about getting one of those antique-looking bell jars to display it in, or perhaps rig up an LED to shine on it.

 

Here's a couple close-ups. I made it almost to scale. You can see that a couple of the zoas are closed up and a couple are only half open. They got pissed by the damsel swimming so close. :lol:



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the never-melting palys......drool. nice skills bro. it took me awhile to figure out it was one creation. i seriously thought you made 7 of them in 7 hours. hahaha.

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