Mitten_reef’s IM30L

[banasophia]

3 hours ago, mitten_reef said:

Yeup. That’s how they came opened this morning, I think. I usually just don’t have the time to sit around waiting for them to observe them opening up, whether for pictures or to feed meaty food. 
😂 app and meal. I put a lot of reef roid to be the meal itself. 

Yeah I feed mine at night... it’s a lengthy process takes about 2 hours due to serving them seconds. My reef likes a leisurely meal, no fast food. 😜
 

Sounds like the lounge in here... how ya’ll doin? 🤗 I gotta start my little chat thread back up, been too busy lately to keep it going, but hoping to have more free time after Christmas. 🤞🤞🤞

[mitten_reef]

1 minute ago, banasophia said:

Yeah I feed mine at night... it’s a lengthy process takes about 2 hours due to serving them seconds. My reef likes a leisurely meal, no fast food. 😜
 

Sounds like the lounge in here... how ya’ll doin? 🤗 I gotta start my little chat thread back up, been too busy lately to keep it going, but hoping to have more free time after Christmas. 🤞🤞🤞

2 hours!?  nope, don't have that kind of time.  no wonder your corals are so happy all the time, they eat 2-hour dinner European-style

[banasophia]

18 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

2 hours!?  nope, don't have that kind of time.  no wonder your corals are so happy all the time, they eat 2-hour dinner European-style

Haha well I don’t actually have to actively feed them like one bite at a time or anything, I just squirt the food on them and wait, and swirl the food around with the powerheads for part of the time. 😆😆😆 Then the waiting part can be done from the comfort of my couch. 😅

[StinkyBunny]

1 hour ago, Matteo said:

Are they not deep water coral? 

Some of the Tubastrea are deep water, but the sun corals are from shallower water, 60m or less.

[banasophia]

Oh yeah... if you are able to add a little lamp right next to your tank it can help with seeing and photographing the suns when the blues are on or all the lights are out... I think it could work well for the black suns so they’ll show up more. 

[mitten_reef]

After a 4-day trip: Got home, ate dinner, checked on the tank. 
 

the glass looks like crap but corals are happy and bright, so had to grab a couple of top down shots. 

left side

 

Right side

 

 

[mitten_reef]

How blue is my maxima clam?

 

this blue!! (All other corals in the shot for color reference, especially the red Goni and the Rasta rock) 

 

[second_decimal]

I don’t recall, do you use orange filter? I just picked up an orange lens for Nikon but I’m still not really happy with the results. 

[mitten_reef]

3 minutes ago, second_decimal said:

I don’t recall, do you use orange filter? I just picked up an orange lens for Nikon but I’m still not really happy with the results. 

I haven’t tried any filter. I’ve used a photo mode/settings somewhat successfully so far. The setting is very heavy on white in real life to help compensate for the blue. You have Nanobox, don’t you?  My current light setting for photo mode using iPhone11 is 90% on color channels, and 100% on white and mint channels. 
that’s exactly how I took the above pics, no edit, no filter. 
Of course now I have to figure out all over again what the photo mode settings were for the real camera 😄. 

[Matteo]

44 minutes ago, second_decimal said:

I don’t recall, do you use orange filter? I just picked up an orange lens for Nikon but I’m still not really happy with the results. 

White balance is the biggest player... I made a custom WB setting preset on my dslr. Not sure how to do with them fruit phones. 

 

But with your Nikon mess with the custom white setting until your tank looks proper color on the screen 🙂

 

I used to use Nikon but I moved to a mirror less setup. Lumix GX85. 

[mitten_reef]

@SpencerShepard, been seeing you’re active, so I got a question. 

I’ve noticed lately that the cloud and moon features are not functioning as they used to - no fading in/out during the day and no day-to-day dimming at night. Anyone else reported on this, or do you have any thoughts what might be going on with my setup? I’m using default Cairns, AUS weather. 

[mitten_reef]

@spectra and @StinkyBunny and @thecoralbeauty

 

how do I handle a maxima clam out of water? Is that even OK?  
Thinking about glueing the acro colonies to my main rock. The problem is, the clam is happily attached to it at this point. I could try to work around it inside the tank, but outside the tank would be much easier. 

[spectra]

26 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

@spectra and @StinkyBunny and @thecoralbeauty

 

how do I handle a maxima clam out of water? Is that even OK?  
Thinking about glueing the acro colonies to my main rock. The problem is, the clam is happily attached to it at this point. I could try to work around it inside the tank, but outside the tank would be much easier. 

I guess how long does it need to be out of the water ? How big is the clam ?

 

If me I would probably just deal with it in the water and not chance pissing off the clam.........

 

 

[mitten_reef]

Send off 2019 with some iPhone top down closeups. 

Clam - my rock is really that purple, 😄, see the clam shell for proof. 

 

My big ol palawanensis down to a frag, but more beautiful than ever

 

my acro colony keeps growing

 

new millies is keeping the pink

 

new tenuis is doing great as well

 

gonna be a stunning little triplet when they all grow up

 

can’t do top down without the ric garden corner

 

Gold cristata torch is picking up some more gold lately. Can’t wait til the stems are all gold. 

 

and Charlie wishes everyone a “HAPPY NEW YEAR!” Hard to believe it was 50F and brown/green everywhere two days ago. We got ~4” last night.  I’m happy the winter is here, hope it stays a while. 

[DSFIRSTSLTWATER]

6 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

Send off 2019 with some iPhone top down closeups. 

Clam - my rock is really that purple, 😄, see the clam shell for proof. 

 

My big ol palawanensis down to a frag, but more beautiful than ever

 

my acro colony keeps growing

 

new millies is keeping the pink

 

new tenuis is doing great as well

 

gonna be a stunning little triplet when they all grow up

 

can’t do top down without the ric garden corner

 

Gold cristata torch is picking up some more gold lately. Can’t wait til the stems are all gold. 

 

and Charlie wishes everyone a “HAPPY NEW YEAR!” Hard to believe it was 50F and brown/green everywhere two days ago. We got ~4” last night.  I’m happy the winter is here, hope it stays a while. 

Absolutely looking FIRE!!!!!!

 

 

Send some snow here please.  

[spectra]

Just rain here for the new year..............

 

Corals look good.

[mitten_reef]

Reserve for a year-over-year comparison

 

Jan 2, 2019

 

It occured to me that my tank looks ABSOLUTELY nothing like it used to back at the beginning of last year.  Both large scape rocks are gone. SunnyD mound is gone. BTA walked into a powerhead.  The center acro colony had grown a LOT, see its topdown above.

  

 

 

[Matteo]

1 hour ago, mitten_reef said:

Reserve for a year-over-year comparison

 

Jan 2, 2019

 

It occured to me that my tank looks ABSOLUTELY nothing like it used to back at the beginning of last year.  Both large scape rocks are gone. SunnyD mound is gone. BTA walked into a powerhead.  The center acro colony had grown a LOT, see its topdown above.

  

 

 

Low key I think it looks better 😂

 

The past year you turned your DT into a frag tank 😜

[mitten_reef]

17 minutes ago, Matteo said:

Low key I think it looks better 😂

 

The past year you turned your DT into a frag tank 😜

Ain’t that the truth.  The transition from the monti’s really took a big toll on tank aesthetic. I really struggle at how disorganized it’s been of late. That why I rarely bother to get out the actual camera. 

[mitten_reef]

On another news, this beauty should be home next week. 

[Matteo]

2 hours ago, mitten_reef said:

Ain’t that the truth.  The transition from the monti’s really took a big toll on tank aesthetic. I really struggle at how disorganized it’s been of late. That why I rarely bother to get out the actual camera. 

Haha and I hope you know I'm just playing around. 

 

Your Corals look great! I simply want to see them mounted 😊😁👌

[Coolbreeze]

Very nice look. Can you tell me how you like the Gyre? Right now I am torn between the Gyre and the MP10.

[mitten_reef]

6 minutes ago, Coolbreeze said:

Very nice look. Can you tell me how you like the Gyro? Right now I am torn between the Gyro and the MP10.

I’ve never had an MP10. But the gyre has been great moving water all the way across the tank, and I’m only running it at 50%. I’m still planning on getting a second one for the opposite side. 

[DSFIRSTSLTWATER]

9 minutes ago, mitten_reef said:

I’ve never had an MP10. But the gyre has been great moving water all the way across the tank, and I’m only running it at 50%. I’m still planning on getting a second one for the opposite side. 

I'm thinking about hooking up my other aqamai kps. I just have the one right now, but feel a second close to the bottom of the tank to stir shit up down there 🤔

[mitten_reef]

1 minute ago, DSFIRSTSLTWATER said:

I'm thinking about hooking up my other aqamai kps. I just have the one right now, but feel a second close to the bottom of the tank to stir shit up down there 🤔

Definitely. If you have a power head sitting around, try that to see how the corals like it before spending $$ on another kps.