MedRed

awesome! i have a canon powershot sd750. I was comfortable going with another canon. I imagine if I learn to use the sx200 i'll be ready for an slr. First I have to find something to shoot pictures of other than fishtanks!

medred it was great meeting you yesterday. I love talking to other solana owners. I got board today and ordered an ATO' date=' saphire aquatics skimmer, and an mp10[/quote']

 

You too man. Looks like you have a lot of goodies to ply with soon. i ended up getting a canon sx200 is ultra zoom. Still a point and shoot but has a lot of manual controls. I just think an SLR is too much camera for my purposes. I'm actually reading the manual for this one. lol.

I think he was directing that towards me.

yeah... i was talking about your little tank that you made a video of.

Beautiful tank!

Alex

Thank you... just went and checked out your tanks. very nice. make sure to save me a couple of the light, bright green ricordeas!

I do like the Solana's.

thinking about upgrading? (whistle)

I can't believe USC lost. They are the only Pac 10 team I actually like. UTAH and BYU lost their games this weekend :-(. TCU is going to have to carry the MWC on its back this season.

how did i miss this thread? looking good. so many purty sps!

I did not get an evite. meeting details?

lmao... we'll talk when i'm back from work

wow man great pic's. Might I ask what advice you were given? I want to get pic's like that too.

lol i'm actually being coached right now on IM to take the pictures to the next level. we'll see how this turns out.

wow man great pic's. Might I ask what advice you were given? I want to get pic's like that too.

lol i'm actually being coached right now on IM to take the pictures to the next level. we'll see how this turns out.

Chili...

Polyps in:

Polyps out:

Feeding:

so... Upon realizing my camera isn't as bad as I thought it was and I was just doing it wrong... a member of another forum gave me some tips to take some better pictures. Let's begin!

Night Shots:

Porcelain Anemone Crab between the Rics:

Emerald Crab on Gonoipora (he better not be eating my polyps):

Overexposed:

I asked him if he wanted to go and he told me, "no bro." So that settled that.

maybe i can make a trip this weekend. would you mind listing the zoas you have dj?

I'm in!!!!!!

i'm in need of some zoas... and it looks like you have some cool ones. Do you have pictures of all the ones you have? Would it be too much if to ask you to ship if I was too lazy to drive down?

Was this a miskey or is it really $1,000?

If that is the price I think you might have better luck on Ebay or RC where you will get a larger audience and maybe find some highrollers.

Don't get me wrong, I have spent my fair share on corals, but $1,000 for a frag seems to be out of a lot of peoples price range, especially with spending down across the nation (and job loss so high in this area).

No harm in asking... the worse that will happen is no one buys at that price. The other scenario is that it sells for that price or an acceptable compromise. If the market value of that coral is $1,000... so be it... it will sell or sit. You don't ask... you don't get.

cool... thanks Smann!

Thank you. The orange in the middle is a rainbow. It's almost all orange at the moment with just a few green polyps

Pre Apocalypse:

I'd removed a lot of SPS to make room for pieces I really wanted. Looking for some ORA Roscoe’s Blue, Hawkins, Blue Echinata, Marshall Island Yellow Fuzzy, and Pearlberry Acro.

Post apocalypse:

The Koralia 4 looks big and bulky in the tank. It's putting out less power than the vortech does on half power. I can't wait to get my new vortech. I still need to upgrade the light. already bought the moonlights to attach to the fixture.

Pom Pom Crab: Only one claw has an anemone and it's tiny:

Anemone Porcelain Crab: He lost a claw while I was moving him. Unfortunately it was right before he moulted.

Monti Mount: Just need some superman to complete my encrusting monti area

Acan Alley: just need 1 nice rainbow to complete the area.The light washes out the colors. The one to the lower right is neon green and pink.

Chili:

quick update. Added 3 sexy shrimp and an emerald crab. I obviously need to clean up the glass. i'm about ready to start stocking some new softies. I've added some blue clove polyps. I've upgraded the canister from an ecco 2232 to an ecco pro 2236.

Sexy time!

looking good. will probably take pics in the morning.

tell me about it.

been really busy... but It seems like all the bad luck i was going to have with this tank pooled up and hit at one point.

A). What were you thinking?

I recently tried to kill my remaining 4 patches of bryopsis with Flourish Excel. I'm an experimenter... more of that side will come out later. I used a large pipette and administered 4 doses over the 4 areas (sidenote... only one of the patches is endemic to the tank... the other three only grow on the 2 zoa frags and one ricordea frag i'd received from others).

The reaction was almost like in the movies when everything goes quiet in a jungle scene signifying something is wrong. I just happened to notice while administering the last dose that every single coral had closed up tight as a drum. I'd never seen that before, not even at night. I realized at that moment I'd added about 4x what I would have added to an entire FW tank as I was using a gigantic pipette. I know Excel can kill simple algae... so now i was worried for the safety of the tank.

I performed a 15 gallon water change... made up more SW and did another 15 gallons. My ponape birdsnest is dying back, my favia isn't looking too hot, the 2 treated zoas haven't opened up fully again, most of the sps browned out, and the ric i directly treated let go and has ended up somewhere in the tank. All in all... a crisis has been averted, but I'm not doing that again. On another note... it did kill the bryopsis. I may try excel dosing on a small scale and not repeat my episode in stupidity.

B). The Series of Unfortunate Events.

So the pump to my skimmer was making an AWFUL racket. It finally went away. I then noticed it went away because it wasn't working. I lifted the skimmer out of the tank and poured the water out. I later realized that the surface of the tank was smooth... my vortech wasn't working. I had poured the water out of my skimmer right into the dry dock. I then took the vortech out and draped it over the side of the tank to dry and see if it'd start back up. while fooling around with the cables i inadvertently caused the heavy vortech to fall on top of the canister used for the 5.5 gallon tank. this broke the clamps that hold the lid down. I now had water pouring out of the canister and onto the power strip for both tanks and the carpet. I had to unplug the power strip and fumble with the shut off valves. So my $30 pump going out... coupled with my stupidity cost me a $400 vortech and $120 filter.

I had to rush out to the LFS to get a Koralia 4 to provide flow until my new vortech arrives. I also had to get a filter as my canister was both filtration and flow for the 5.5 gallon. The 5.5 gallon actually benefited as I upgraded from the older model 2232 ecco to the larger and revised model 2236 ecco. I added almost a gallon of water volume and significantly increased the flow by going with the larger filter.

Everything is stabilized and the tank is looking good. I'll take some pics this weekend.

On a side note I've added a few more inverts. I now have 3 Porcelain crabs, 1 anemone crab, 1 striped cleaner shrimp, 1 peppermint shrimp, 1 scarlet cleaner shrimp, 1 emerald crab, and 1 pom pom crab (ordered 2 but one didn't make it at the LFS). I'm going to add another pom pom crab and I'm thinking of one of the shrimp that host anemones.

yeah... how about that Oklahoma State over Georgia?