Reef photo #2 - centre of 40 gallon reef as seen from left end - 9 months young.
Think I got it this time - i.e. no flash back flare.
Trouble is I never look at the reef from this angle so now I have to reorganize some of the corals to improve the colors, balance and sight lines from this angle too. Oh bother. Looks better from my rocking chair : :D
Ron
:shock: looks nice 2 me!
Looks great, and the important thing is it looks good to you. If it looks fine from ur chair, why mess with it? :-)
Looks awesome;but my eyes are too tired to figure out everything in there right now, I think I need to find my chair.
Goodnight.
Thanks for posting Ron!!! :)
Julie
For anyone who is scientifically minded or for anyone who wants to play "find which is which or what is where" :), here is a list of what I know is in the photo:
1) Cleaner shrimp
2) Astrea snail
3) Orange ricordia (yuma)
4) Green ricordia (florida)
5) Montipora cap. - three colours - (yellow/green, orange and purple)
6) Montipora digitata - three colours - (green, orange and purple)
8) zoanthids - seven different colour varieties (from Nighty - they originated from a specialty zoanthid retailer in the USA and each is a very unique colour or combination of colours)
9) Finger corals - 2 varieties
10) Kenyan tree Coral
11) Purple mushroom (looks blue in the photo)
12) Red mushroom (tough to see)
13) Green Star polyps
14) Button polyps:two types - one yellow, one green - both difficult to see
15) Monastrea plate (from Nighty) - give you a hint - its the big flat coral at the top centre of the photo. Interesting side note: In its last few days in Nighty's SW tank, this coral had an accidental encounter with a candy cane coral and was about 25% bleached when I received it. It continued to bleach out until about 80% white and then started to slowly recover. I am happy to report that it is now almost completely recovered from that event but took two or three months to recover.
16) Pulsing Xenia
17) Blue green star polyps - a hitchhiker that came with the live rock
18) a tricoloured mushroom - another hitchhiker
19) Galaxea
20) a purple encrusting coral which is likely either a Porites sp. or a Montipora sp. - another hitchhiker
21) a small brown polyped gorgonian
22) many different varieties of coralline algae
23) Candy cane coral
24) a blue legged hermit crab - one very tough to see hermit crab is in the photo but I have many others in this tank and my other tanks.
etc.
Have fun. Sorry, no prizes.
Ron
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Quote from: "rockgarden"I have to reorganize some of the corals to improve the colors, balance and sight lines from this angle too. Oh bother. Looks better from my rocking chair : :D
Ron
WOW ! ! !
Very nice Ron.
Perfection is not always a quality, I know, I'm a perfectionist.
Let it evolve as it is, from what I see, it's simply magnificent.
I love the coloration.
Keep the images comming please.
positively beautiful!! :)
It is very nice, but maybe you could consider a blck background?
Nice tank!!
Thanks for suggestion. Not moving tank to change now. Hoping that corraline algae (the pick spots) will soon have back wall covered in pinks and purples. Part of the right side of the tank and the back corner are already covered with encrusting corals such as GSP and Anthelia.
May have numerous new ideas after my trip to jungles and reefs of Saipan in January. Fun to read the beach reviews though. My brother (who lives there) tells me that he is going to take me to Lau Lau Beach. Here's the review.
Lau Lau Beach review submitted By:
Seth Bareiss
Submitter Comments:
There are no facilities here, beyond the presence of a single guard and his radio. Locals in this valley live without electricity and running water. They have no phones. Nonetheless, this is one of Saipan's 3 best shore-dives, and has at least 4 interesting points of entry. Current is nearly non-existent. Likewise for waves, unless a typhoon is quite close. Life is a fantastic assortment of hard and soft corals, large schools of fish, and frequent large life sightings: turtles, rays, napoleon wrasses, and small white tip reef sharks. Clown fish colonies abound.
Directions:
An extremely poor washed-out dirt road leads down to this valley & wide, wide bay. Parking is in a jungle adjacent to the road and beach. Saipan employs a guard to watch over your car here. DO NOT park on the beach, as you 1) may get shot at by angry locals, and 2) you may be parking on turtle eggs.
Sounds great, eh.
Ron