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wow Wilson, you fish pics is so well taken........

I need to go and practice more.

All your fishes looks so nice.... wub.gif

the percs are beautiful, the kole has nice eyelashes, clown goby looks so radiant, ... thumbsup.gif

Eqpt: Deltec MCE 600, Tunze 6055 with Tunze 7091 controller, Artica 1/15 HP chiller, AquaIllumination Sol Blue LED Light System

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wow Wilson, you fish pics is so well taken........

I need to go and practice more.

All your fishes looks so nice.... wub.gif

the percs are beautiful, the kole has nice eyelashes, clown goby looks so radiant, ... thumbsup.gif

Bro... u dunno how many shots i took to get them! hahaha. I'll be honest, these have gotta do a little with luck.

Not sure if they'll help you, but here are my settings:

High ISO (400 or 800), today i used the fixed lens, 50mm. f/1.8. (mostly using the f/2.8, except for 1 that i wanted deep DOF)

Aperture Priority. So fairly straight forward.

Btw, i'm awaiting the photography workshop to learn from the experts!!!

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More zoas (all rescued from previous tank)

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wub.gif still say our tank has all the nice stuff.... yours too bro! and that bunch of bams bams..... wow.... so densely populated.

Eqpt: Deltec MCE 600, Tunze 6055 with Tunze 7091 controller, Artica 1/15 HP chiller, AquaIllumination Sol Blue LED Light System

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My First-ever Gorgonian... actually this piece was in really bad shape (ah beng) when i bought it... but i desperately wanted something to fill the front corner of the tank. The MP40 blowing directly at it, makes it look wavy... Now the tank looks alive.

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Fortunately, polyps are opened. Flooding of tank is in the order! woo hoo...

There's this super long orange gorgonian in the foreground as well. White polyps... this piece is almost 3.5 to 4 feet long... dunno how to put in my 2.5 feet tank sia. it's like all curled up now.

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wow ... everyone posting awesome photos today groupwavereversed.gif

and you have been very busy my friend.

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LOL I see many a frag plug.. LOL nice collection wilson.. mine is barely there man.. :P

i learn from mistakes, nowadays, i usually fragged out some zoas and keep them separated.

Just in case something happens to the main colony, there's alternative.

Also can use them to exchange or pass to friends. :)

And those rows of frag plugs... interestingly amongst them, i have zoas, skin polyps and a red colour algae (think its red bamboo).

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wow ... everyone posting awesome photos today groupwavereversed.gif

and you have been very busy my friend.

you know why??? coz you set the standard so HIGH buddy. :friends:

To be honest, if you see my stuff, all common one hor! dun have power names. Still waiting to exchange with something i have. Both you are Ray willing to spend on zoas sia... i scared leh.

actually i only bought a few new things. Maybe i'm spending to make myself feel better after the crash-lost.

Those pictures i posted, are pretty much everything i have... (show hand le). Now will let the tank stabilise (yah right! haha)

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Btw: Jeremy, i've got the coral. It's in the tank already. Thanks man. It looks damn luminous! Definitely better than the one i was supposed to buy!

Dunno if it's frogspawn or something else... the tip looks very different.

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Btw: Jeremy, i've got the coral. It's in the tank already. Thanks man. It looks damn luminous! Definitely better than the one i was supposed to buy!

Dunno if it's frogspawn or something else... the tip looks very different.

Its a torch, don't know why its tentacles are a little strange. When it was at GO it was a TORCH a real TORCH! Maybe too much feeding? i don't know? Just take care of it and may it blossom.

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by looking at your zoas, seems like they need more light and water current. ;)

boy, you are really PRO sia! One look you can tell liao.

yes, I've received that advice from some who has seen my tank in person.

I'd reserved a 3rd T5 lightset from a fellow reefer, but didnt managed to pick it up due to distance... 6xT5 should be okie? Just refusing to go back to MH anymore.

Will also be boosting up MP40, currently running at 40%.

Kum sia bro.

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wah bro... lovely shots! I'm happy to see your tank back and up running so quickly! :)

thanks bro... i'm also quite happy to see it with corals and fish. Looks more alive.

I still have some fish and corals that i have to get!

1) zoas (jacky, Ray and CEdric have them!!!)

2) some tiny schooling fish (any suggestions??) more neon gobies? Bro Hwee has some really tiny schooling fish.. hope i can find them too. Bro Hwee, u know their names??

3) Mandarin (must-have, but must wait till year-end)

4) SPS! Hah! this is the reason for my rescape, which eventually led to death of half my corals and all fishes. Will go really slow on this, dun wanna screw up the parameters.

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Its a torch, don't know why its tentacles are a little strange. When it was at GO it was a TORCH a real TORCH! Maybe too much feeding? i don't know? Just take care of it and may it blossom.

it looks like torch, but the tip looks really different man! eh, how regular you feed them? I can only do like once a week leh. (mysis?)

yeah, sure i will take care of it... place it horizontally though, not the typical vertical placement... share pix wif you tomorrow. (lights off le)

and i'm also going to Zonk... tomorrow gotta work (plus clear past 2 days work)

Gosh, i hate first day of the work week!!!!

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Found these deep orange super sun... still cant tell colours of the tentacles yet.

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Left them in the sump for easy feeding... Took pictures of both pieces, hoping TLC can rescue the dying one.

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good luck with these bro. these are not super suns. they are balanophyllias. the heartbreaker of the family. although IMO, the prettiest and most beautiful of the lot, but the hardest to get open, much less at your desired timing,

not to be a wet blanket but the first one very difficult or impossible to revive. 2nd one is very healthy. i hope you succeed with them.

a few kinds of balanophyllias. all have orange bodies but the colour of the tentacles differ. some are transparent, orange, pink or lime green (my fav. translucent lime green polyps with orange body). sad to say not much info of these online but standard requirements as suns. require feeding. just abit harder to get open.

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i just flood the tank with some phytoplankton thingy. No i don't feed my corals with mysis. Only fishes eat mysis. Yea strange tentacles ah

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good luck with these bro. these are not super suns. they are balanophyllias. the heartbreaker of the family. although IMO, the prettiest and most beautiful of the lot, but the hardest to get open, much less at your desired timing,

not to be a wet blanket but the first one very difficult or impossible to revive. 2nd one is very healthy. i hope you succeed with them.

again, you amazed me! THanks for correctly IDing them. I actually found the tentacles opening up earlier (when the lights were off). Should have taken the chance to take a shot and feed it. That's the healthy one.

The 'first' one, also has some mini tentacles but like you said, i'm hoping for the best too!

Now, i found myself a new challenge!

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