nanoreefer

Congrats! Beautiful shot!!!

The transfer is finally complete! Hoping by the time I get home from work tonight the dust will have settled.

 

 

Also, saw this stunning anemone at Cuttlefish, wish my tank was bigger and I that I have a big chunk of cash to drop lol

 

I couldn't help it lol. Can't wait for the delivery!!!

This tank is growing again! Lol Spectra will be dropping off the 20IM tomorrow with another AiPrime unit; can't wait!!!

Samsung NX500 with the nx60 mm macro lens. Best camera I've ever owned and I've owned canon, Nikon, and Sony cameras.

Green Yuma looking strange this morning; I think it's on the move...

 

 

 

 

Very tempted! I just don't wanna have to deal with transferring everything out of the current tank.

basket star?

Do it! Softies are so easy and colorful. You got a new tank?

Some new shots

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ai prime : )

The back chamber is filled with marine pure ceramic balls to help with filtration and grow pods.

Thanks! Wanna trade your bounce shroom? Lol

Drooling uncontrollably!!!

This thing decided to move from the rock it was on to the top of the tank; will trade it for something colorful ???? Shoot me a trade or cash offer. I will not be able to hold it because I want it gone before it moves again.

 

 

 

Yuma volcano!

 

 

Insane looking zoas that I can't remember the name of

 

 

Non-reef stuff

 

 

Huh. I didn't notice that those were taken with white light. It would just provide a different perspective.

 

One thing I love is fluorescence and your tank has tons of it. My research group at college studies fluorescent proteins and how they "work." After looking at this thread yesterday, I decided to do a search on fluorescent proteins isolated from corals and anemones. In reality, there are a handful that have been characterized and isolated. Every time I see coral fluoresce, I know there are new proteins to be discovered and your tank is full of them. Haha. Every color you see is likely a different protein.

 

P.s. I showed my advisor your videos and he couldn't believe that people have aquariums like yours.

That's so cool! I noticed that they glow differently under different spectrum; they all glow under deep blue actinic or blue (have no idea what that is in nm) but only a few glow under UV; the ones that do glow under uv are insane looking; of all the rics in the tank, only two of them glow under uv. I may be able to donate some tissue samples for science

Thanks, guys!

 

The first three photos of the dendro were taken with the whites on at 50%. The corals still are very colorful (as you can kinda tell from the background) but they don't pop like they do under bluer light.

Thanks, Cuttle Fish and Corals, for some awesome new corals! Stopped by to kill some time before meeting up with my friends for H&H and couldn't resist.

 

 

 

 

 

The little piggy started eating right out of the bag!

 

 

Running out of space; need to figure out where I'm gonna put the blood red maxi anemone that's arriving today.

 

 

 

 

 

Plenty of pods for my mandarin!

 

 

I got my stuff from several sellers on eBay: aquarium_art, boomcoral, and lareef. The cups holders are just condiment cups with suction cups attached with superglue : ) Great for baby yumas and anything that needs a little substrate to attach. The marinepure balls are in the middle chamber. There's nothing in the pump chamber other than the pump and heater.

Finally got a few decent shots of this elusive beauty! He's been in the tank for almost two weeks now but still only hangs out in the back. I got him to help keep the copepods under control. They were all over the glass and was getting kinda of annoying. Was a little worry that he would wipe out the copepods in a day or two then starve; buts it's almost two weeks and the pods are still all over the glass; the mandarin shows no signs of starvation; his belly is actually quite round. The little piggy must be finding plenty to eat. I think the back compartment full of ceramic balls is supplying plenty of food for him.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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