Fresh images from my reef

[melev]

For your viewing pleasure, some top down shots:

Acropora nobilis

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A plating coral - I don't know the name.

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A frag from Next Wave. Acropora sp.

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The Acorpora secale

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My sick and AEFW-infected Tyree frag

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Acropora tenuis

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[melev]

The edge of the A. millepora with its baby beneath.

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Blue-core A. millepora

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The A. millepora I got from Nathan 1.5 years ago.

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Another A. millepora

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The pink A. millepora

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Pink Branching Hammer

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[extinguishfire]

Unknown plating coral looks to be a mycedium.

 

[jbailey]

Super pics Marc, can you get us a full tank shot?

 

[GrannyReefer]

Marc, your corals are beautiful!!! The colors so intense and they look so very healthy.

I would love to know your secret to exactly how you take care of your tank.... You lucky man you...Well I really don't know if it would be luck or not, maybe just a right balance of knowledge and knowing just what to do when...

 

[melev]

My full tank shots rarely look any good, but I'll see about adding one in the next day or so.

 

[melev]

These are from the front or side of the tank. In case you are wondering, it is a Fuji S602Z digital camera.

Now that Tucker is gone, the Mean Greens are beginning to look 3-d again.

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A close up of the baby Maxima clam.

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I love this A. granulosa

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Even with a few red bugs on it.

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The green acropora with blue tips.

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The multi-colored Favia

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[melev]

A peekaboo shot - Longnosed Hawkfish

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Red Ring zoanthids

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Montipora capricornis

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Montipora foliosa (green with purple rim...some day)

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This is its parent colony, in a local DFWMAS member's tank:

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And finally a shot from the end of the tank.

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[melev]

Just a bump for those that didn't know more images were added.

 

[melev]

Most corals look their best from above.

 

[GraviT]

Great stuff Marc, thanks for sharing the pictures! Get those red bugs under control man! :shock:

 

[melev]

Naw, they're there to eat the AEFW, right? :roll:

 

[jbailey]

I'm not very knowledgeable about photography, but I notice like you said that the pics come out much more colorful from the top. Is this because of the glass? Those are some of the better SPS pics I have seen. Good job.

 

[Serk]

jbailey - I think it's actually the angle... I know corals are more colorful even to my eye when viewed from above...

I guess it makes sense, the zoxanthalae algae in the coral tissue that give them their vibrant colors are gonna be concentrated greatest at an angle to get the most light, which is straight up mostly...

(That's just what I assume, I could very well be horribly wrong... )

 

[afishfanatic]

Marc, Great PE and nice color!

 

[melev]

@jbailey wrote:

With the light shining down on the corals, when you view them from above you see their luminesence best. Everything looks amazing from above, and really we are missing out by looking through the side of our tanks. The glass does filter out some color, especially normal glass that appears to have a green tint to it. My tank has Starfire glass, which is low lead and not green.