lgreen Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Today will be another DOUBLE update day! I just recieved an amazing shipment from MVITE so that will be the freature of the second update that I will post later today when everything opens up. First though is a few things from the last few days! Updated shot of Six's Gallaxia all opened up: Stupid camera messed up the colors. It is actually much more colorful than that. New camera in 1-2 days though, so we'll fix that! Pulsing Xenia (this shot turned out kind of neat. Cant see the glass, looks like I took it in the water): Anthelia: Tons of baby Gallaxia's that I busted off when unpacking the coral. All are doing well though: I'll have more update pics of the rest of the stuff I got from Six all opened up. This is kind of getting disorganized for me, so I need to find a way to get all these pics kind of more in order so they aren't just random all over the thread. Maybe I'll post a nice shot of each coral in my first post. Update 2 in a while: Excellent Shipping: Thanks Mark! You're speciall too lol. OH, look, you can see a paper that says dental plaque in the right top corner. Neat. Reminds me that I need to finish writing a paper! More pics in a while. Link to comment
Truck_Under_Water Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 The galaxia opened up nicely! Link to comment
travisurfer Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 wow, thats a ton of corals, keep us posted Link to comment
Six Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Looks great so far loren! that galaxia looks awesome! Link to comment
lgreen Posted October 31, 2006 Author Share Posted October 31, 2006 Thanks all. I think my indicator corals (anthelia, gps, xenia) are letting me know I'm about ready for a water change. Hopefully mvites stuff will be ready for a pic tonight, but if not, tomorrow. New FTS today or tomorrow. Things are looking pretty good, but the true test will be if I can get some growth. Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 1, 2006 Author Share Posted November 1, 2006 UPDATE Tiger Astrea Snail: Six's Pink Star Polyp: Here's the stuff I got from mvite. He had this stuff under metal halide so the colors are night quite as intense, but I'm sure they'll color up a bit more after they get established. Mint Palys: RPE (slight bit of red, still have some coloring up to do): Blue Palys: PPE (2 large polyps, a small splitting, and another baby): Lunar Eclipse Paly (neon orange, with deep purple center)(they're still a bit ticked off and need to color up a bit): AND I think that will be enough corals for quite a while. This will be my official FTS for October: Click below for larger shot: http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/FTS_8.JPG Link to comment
pico1 Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Lookin' good...it's filling up fast! Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 Yeah it is. Faster than I expected. I guess I went a little crazy there. My new camera came today. I'm trying to finish a big ass paper though and get ready for a presentation on dental plaque biofilms that I have to give tomorrow in microbiology, so I'm not really going to play with it much tonight. I still need to get an SD media card for it too before I can start snapping pics. Link to comment
Tightrope Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I really like how you have an expansive rock wall, and maintain the illusion of a lot of sand space. That's terrific aquascaping! Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 6, 2006 Author Share Posted November 6, 2006 Thanks The lunar eclipse palys are not doing well. There were origionally 5 or 6 and now I think I'm down to 2. I'm losing confidence the other 2 are going to make it. Everything else looks fine, so I'm assuming they just must not have taken well to my tank. The anthelia has poked out like 5 new heads and the start polyp has about 1 cm growth, which is not to bad for 2 weeks. I will get some new pics up w/ the new camera as soon as I buy an SD media card. Waiting for one to go on a good sale. Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 Updated pics of mvites stuff. Haven't bought a memory card for the new camera yet though, so these are from the crappy sony. sorry. Link to comment
WarEagleNR88 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 These are my favorites of your "crop" so far. I'm interested to see how they fair throughout the contest. I really like the second ones. I wonder if they will pale and become very fluorescent green in the middle? Hopefully that blue tint holds on and moves out through the tentacles. Those ones in the first picture could be really nice if they'd keep that bright orange. Maybe they will? What brand of memory card does your camera take? Some of the cards are really expensive! I bought a 1GB xD card for my camera and it was $50. But I guess a year ago it was $100 plus, mmm so yeah. Looking good! Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 These are my favorites of your "crop" so far. I'm interested to see how they fair throughout the contest. I really like the second ones. I wonder if they will pale and become very fluorescent green in the middle? Hopefully that blue tint holds on and moves out through the tentacles. Those ones in the first picture could be really nice if they'd keep that bright orange. Maybe they will? What brand of memory card does your camera take? Some of the cards are really expensive! I bought a 1GB xD card for my camera and it was $50. But I guess a year ago it was $100 plus, mmm so yeah. Looking good! Yeah, I think those second ones are supposed to be RPE, despite them not being a dark red. Everything else I got though looked kind of faded when I first put it in the tank, but slowly has been coloring up, so I don't know what will ultimatley become of them. The first ones seem to be keeping the bright orange pretty good. They should have a center that is deep purple just like the PPE's. Still a bit faded though, but who knows what will happen over the next few weeks as they finish getting settled in. I need to get and SD memory card. I'm thinking about running down to compusa here in a while. They have a 2pk of 1gig PNY SD cards on sale for like $29.00 after $40 instant savings and $10 mail in rebate. I'd be fine with something much smaller as I don't take tons of pictures, but that seems like a pretty dang good deal. They had some still when I was there monday, so hopefully they will still have some. Link to comment
travisurfer Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 tank is coming along nicely Link to comment
nUgZ Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 The "RPE's" are actually Green Stardust PE's. http://www.zoaid.com/index.php?module=Gall...p;g2_itemId=315 Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 First shots with the Nikon D50. This is the first time I've used it, so bear with me for a few weeks while I figure out how to use it. Finally a camera that shows my corals true colors straight off the memory card. ^About 10 new heads in only 3 weeks More later if I get bored and decide its time to play with the camera more. Oops one more. Link to comment
travisurfer Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 looks nice lgreen. what is that last colony of zoanthids called? watermellons like the pic title hints at? Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 six calls them wammin' watermellons. Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 11, 2006 Author Share Posted November 11, 2006 Updated shots of what I already have w/ the nikon d50. Check out the coralline coloration in some of these pics. I didn't even know some of these colors of coralline algae existed. FTS Right Side FTS Left Side Anthelia Galaxia Baby Mint Palys Link to Full Size: http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/mintpalys.JPG More GPS (w/ little turquoise mushroom) Orange 2 Orange 1 Red Green Mushroom Pulsing Xenia Closeup I think there are a few more little frags I have not posted pics of or new pics of, but am having trouble getting good pics of due to their size. I'll keep trying though. Link to comment
travisurfer Posted November 12, 2006 Share Posted November 12, 2006 wow, tank is really coming along. Link to comment
lgreen Posted November 12, 2006 Author Share Posted November 12, 2006 Thanks New FTS: Full size here: http://www.nano-reef.com/gallery/data/500/FTS9.JPG Link to comment
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