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Need help, which of these pics should I send in to R2R wrasse pic contest. I like taking the pics, not so good at evaluating them myself. Pardon my indulgence, but I need your help choosing the best pic. If none are good, just don't vote, otherwise you will impact my esteem. You should leave...

So I have this wonderful purple monster colony and a wonderful granulosa colony but alas, as usual I planted them too close. The granulosa is the newest of the colonies planted and it is starting to grow over the purple monster's growing edge. That is most definitely not allowed!! In this...

Woke up this morning and checked the tank as usual and discovered that apparently my new wrasse addition is not getting along with some of the guys. Someone crashed into my vivid's tri-color prostrata and broke it off at the base. Not only that, the colony (mini) landed in the rose anemone...

Need to decide between these two pics. Let me know whether you prefer the top down acro shot or the yellow coris (fish) shot. top down yellow coris I appreciate the input

How do I figure out the scientific names of my corals? Is there a site that has some of the common or trade names with the scientific one as well?

Why do people use controllers? Never had one, just use timers and surge protectors.

Here is my space invader pectinia but it did not turn out as well as I had hoped I am actually hand holding it and apparently it did not like that at all and deflated from all its glory And lastly, back in its home, back corner.

Apparently, the distance from an entry way table to a limestone floor is enough to make my 90 mm macro Tamron lens not bounce but instead break. Pretty sure it is a waste but will see if the camera store can figure this one out. No fracture but the telescopic portion has separated with what...

I bought a very cool sony nex camera, but the uncool thing is it is too new to have that many lenses available for it. there is no 90-100mm macro out there that is a dedicated lens. So I have been using the kit lens 18-55 which is great. But I have not been able to take those amazing macros...

So my frags are blooming and I am not sure if I should just let colonies expand into each other and perhaps shade other colonies or do I trim and go for that neat separate colony look. I am leaning toward trimming colonies because I don't think I want a jungle look of overgrowing colonies...

Do you ever buy frags without seeing either the mother colony or a picture of the mother colony?

Here is a picture of my space invader pectinia. I just moved it from the top of the tank with lots of flow, to lower down with little flow, just for fun. Actually, just doing a little rearranging in the tank. If things are going well, might as well try to mess it up a little. The space...

I found some pictures on my cell phone of some of my frags (SPS and LPS) from September 2011 and so I took some new photos today to observe the progression. Although I thought I had started repopulating my tank earlier, it seems that it was September to November of 2011 that I did the majority...

So there has been some discussion lately about what is the most accurate representation of a coral's true color. I only white balanced, increased exposure ever so slightly and cropped--thats it. I stay away from tint and saturation and whatever else there is to offer on photoshop. Well, I...

I placed a small frag of mystic sunset on top of this very cool round rock and lo and behold, the darn frag grew like crazy. So now its starting to sting my Beaker Bob Space Alien chalice (I am not sure its space alien, but it does not matter, my mystic sunset monti was stinging one of my...

These are the steps I take before adding a frag. I picked this up from another forum by two reefers in particular, Flamron and Whisperer. Certainly you start with close visual inspection. Here is the frag in the bag: Here is the frag out of water on its original plug I then remove the...

Well, ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by saltwater tanks. Loved visiting local fish stores, always has felt like a field trip did just like in elementary school. Each display tank showing such beautiful creatures whether fish or coral. Started out in my 20's with fresh water...

So lets see those space invader pics. Here is mine, high and in the back of the tank, huge flow and between flow and distance, can't sting any neighbors---the flow keeps the tentacles to about an inch because they are getting so whipped by that flow. My tank is a 180 bowfront so it is...

So I turned off all the flow so I could try some macro photography, and as I get a pretty macro shot of something near the bottom, I look up and see the incredible reflection from the water surface of the entire tank. SO, I took an image and I have posted one right side up (so to speak) and...

So if you have some great sps pics, then show them off. Here are a couple of mine: vivid's tricolor prostrata (just a baby) Very wild looking acro tat's psammacora (thru funky glass) purple polyp nasuta pink smoothie (baby) cool looking echinata