Rabbut's Marine Jurnal

[TigerIssey]

The nem is certainly standing out more from the background of the tank and the creamy white does look more true. Wish I could work out how you would really get that purple to stand out.

Do you use actinic lighting Rabbut? I know you have a MH but do you have a seperate actinic as this might be the way to get the colour to stand out.

Raising ISO is good move as is using the macro. Not familiar with nikons apart from microscope camera at work and then we use the computer to adjust anyway. You could try upping and lowering the white balance, on mine it looks like a battery with a plus and minus sign on.

Thats a nice feather duster too, and in my experience whenever you try to photograph wildlife of any kind, they move when the camera comes out!!

 

[rabbut]

Do you use actinic lighting Rabbut? I know you have a MH but do you have a seperate actinic as this might be the way to get the colour to stand out.

Nope just a 14,000K Halide ATM. I don't really have the power sockets or space in the cabinet/wiring box to wire in some Actinic either. I intend to install Blue LED's though when I change my lighting over sometime during the summer break from Uni though...

Raising ISO is good move as is using the macro. Not familiar with nikons apart from microscope camera at work and then we use the computer to adjust anyway. You could try upping and lowering the white balance, on mine it looks like a battery with a plus and minus sign on.

The camera only really allowed you to use the Macro or High-ISO settings separately, I haven't dug about in the settings enough to work out how to get it to do both at the same time...

Thats a nice feather duster too, and in my experience whenever you try to photograph wildlife of any kind, they move when the camera comes out!!

Thanks. Why couldn't living things all just freeze and pose for the camera when one comes by? Mind, being a bit camera shy myself, I can't say I blame the poor things

All the best
Rabbut

 

[rabbut]

OK, I'm going to let the photo's do the talking this time, mainly because I cannot be bothered typing out details of what everything is....

No, some of this is old stuff, others new, some existing and not photographed before, and I may try add a photo of the Yellow Prawn Goby later, as it wasn't playing ball.

Now, there is one photo of new stock, one of old stock that I haven't been able to photograph before and the rest is all "old" stock, bar the FTS last...

Enjoy
Rabbut

 

[ben1987]

that looks like a bi-colour blenny to me, the coolest fish there is!

 

[rabbut]

that looks like a bi-colour blenny to me, the coolest fish there is!

I assume you mean this chap? I've ID'd him as a Salarias fasciatus. He is a nice fish, lots of personality and always looking at me as if to say "what you doing" when I'm about and/or messing with the tank... Rather fat also... He's not part of the new stock though, I added him probably a few months back now, but he is rather camera shy...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[Ehudd]

that looks like a bi-colour blenny to me, the coolest fish there is!

I assume you mean this chap? I've ID'd him as a Salarias fasciatus. He is a nice fish, lots of personality and always looking at me as if to say "what you doing" when I'm about and/or messing with the tank... Rather fat also... He's not part of the new stock though, I added him probably a few months back now, but he is rather camera shy...

All the best
Rabbut

yea deff not a bi colour. I got the same one mine is camera shy to.

whats your water like? got alot of algea, mine didnt even look like that when it was cycling being uncured.
I guess you do have a metal halide

 

[rabbut]

Strangely enough, now the canister filters packed up, the algae has died back Makes me wonder if I needed to clean it out more often

Anyhow, note please folks, clean impellers regularly if they are gathering Calcium deposits, running with lots of them stuck to the impeller of a pump may lead to an impeller failure. I've found this one out the hard way, hence why the canister is dead Oh well, that's just £15 for parts down the drain

I suppose I should do a photo up-date at some point...

All the best
Rabbut

 

[rabbut]

OK, I haven't updated this for a while with photo's, so I figued I would...

I've just finished a 40% water change, and another 40% of water volume will be added tomorrow when the skimmer and external filter go back on-line Oh, and you may notice that I've had a re-scape

Now, this is just an hour or two after a 40% water change and major shuffle, so most of the stock is still stropping. Anything that hadn't yet opened out again yet, namely the Malu Anemone, Green Star Polyps and the Organ Pipe coral, have been left off for now...

This is some sea weed that has cropped up, presumably from the initial load of LR. Anyone know if this stuff is a pest?

And just to finish, a nice FTS

All the best and enjoy
Rabbut

 

[bagu]

stunning FTS, really nice!

 

[ALW]

 

[bagu]

that white new is so stunning, i keep coming back to look at it xD

 

[rabbut]

Thanks you three. I've done a little bit of playing with it over the last few days, and tried to get the corals into better spots (when I initially scaped it I couldn't see too far into the tank due to the amount of detritus I'd stired up)... If a pig flies again soon, there may be another round of photo's going up over the weekend, but don't count on it

All the best
Rabbut

 

[bagu]

ill be waiting no pressure ;D

 

[seffieuk]

ill be waiting no pressure ;D

Ehhhh yes, loads of pressure...................... wow, what was that............. a flying pig, to be sure!! Got to do the photos now Rabutt

Seffie x

 

[ben1987]

looking good, get the new ones done!