Scorched Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 Thanks!! I got some crazy growth/color with T5s and LEDs seem to just give me mediocre growth and awesome color. Which is better: crazy color, or awesome color? LOL I'd rather have color over growth any day. Our tanks are also very small so keeping the corals a nice small size is not necessarily a bad thing. Link to comment
Jruberti Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Which is better: crazy color, or awesome color? LOL I'd rather have color over growth any day. Our tanks are also very small so keeping the corals a nice small size is not necessarily a bad thing. I think LEDs look more synthetic than T5s, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. I agree with the color over growth; that's why I try to dial in a nice 20k look. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I finally got a picture of my Rainford's Goby! He is definitely the most timid fish I've ever owned. Sorry for the bad quality picture! I still can't get a decent picture with LEDs Link to comment
Scorched Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 I finally got a picture of my Rainford's Goby! He is definitely the most timid fish I've ever owned. Sorry for the bad quality picture! I still can't get a decent picture with LEDs Are you using a DSLR, point and shoot, or camera phone? If its a DSLR I found I get excellent pictures by manually white balancing to a piece of white paper near the tank or a white plastic cap in the water. Then changing the image format to high quality jpeg and adding a little bit of blue back to the image after you transfer it to your computer. Unwhite balanced and RAW images just go crazy with blue LEDs and I found this was the only way to get "normal" pictures. Link to comment
Jruberti Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Are you using a DSLR, point and shoot, or camera phone? If its a DSLR I found I get excellent pictures by manually white balancing to a piece of white paper near the tank or a white plastic cap in the water. Then changing the image format to high quality jpeg and adding a little bit of blue back to the image after you transfer it to your computer. Unwhite balanced and RAW images just go crazy with blue LEDs and I found this was the only way to get "normal" pictures. I'm just using my roommate's point and shoot; it's a coolpix L610. Link to comment
Jruberti Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 He only likes to come out when the lights are really dim...which makes for even worse picture quality Eagle Eyes Link to comment
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