Swap Coral pics

Zef004 · Apr 15, 2012

Nice pickup everyone. I'll share too.

Still can't believe I got this colony for $70 thanks Tomoko

Not corals but just as nice.

SA snow onyx pair
Right side

Left side

SA Hippo tang

SA fancy snow
Right side

Left side

11f150 · Apr 15, 2012

Nice clowns I like them. Heres a few pics that I attempted to take under actinics

pickupman66 · Apr 17, 2012

a MUCH better photo of the anemone I got from Toxic... it came out really good today. this is the first we have seen it since it went into the tank. i think I stuck that acan too close to it.

Zef004 · Apr 17, 2012

She looks like she is hungry. Nice nem tho.

pickupman66 · Apr 17, 2012

yea. im gonna make sure it gets some food tonight.. that thing could eat a good sized prawn!

have it a good squirt of mysis... the shrimp and six line were stealing from it.

andywe · Apr 17, 2012

Just a few quick and lousy shots of swap frags

Taken under the L.E.D..still going to have to play with the new cam and figure out shooting under the L.E.D.'s...much harder than under MH lights. Any and all crappy-ness is the photographer..lol.

pensfan · Apr 17, 2012

Here are a couple of frags I picked up.

pickupman66 · Apr 17, 2012

Andy.. best I've found to do is put it on aperature priority, set it wide open and keep the ISO under 400. Shoot them in raw so you can bring into Photoshop or gimp you can set the white balance precisely to your color. If you don't want to go the Photoshop route stick a white plate in the tank and zoom in on it and snap a pic. Then manually set the white balance on that.

My lights are in the 14k range so its super easy for me to hit the color dead on..

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duke594 · Apr 17, 2012

Here are some pictures of the corals I got from High Def Corals. Still new to keeping corals so I just got a couple of soft corals. They are doing great so far. I just need to get some more base rock to fill the tank out more.
Blue Xenia

Neon Green Paula Nepthea

Dowtish · Apr 17, 2012

duke594, those are awesome starter corals! good choices for sure. Did you join the club at the swap?

duke594 · Apr 18, 2012

Club Membership

Dowtish said:
duke594, those are awesome starter corals! good choices for sure. Did you join the club at the swap?

No, I joined back in February. You have got me hooked on corals.

I just haven't been able to make anying meetings yet. I am hoping to make it to the meeting in May.

pickupman66 · Apr 18, 2012

Duke.. that Nepthea will grow nicely. I have one in my tank that stand about 12" tall. Great starter corals. Same with that Xenia. give them a nice bouncing flow and they do well. believe it or not, they like dirtier water.

andywe · Apr 18, 2012

Ok, some new pics with the new Olympus TG-820 with NO color adjustments at all.

Dowtish · Apr 18, 2012

pensfan said:
Here are a couple of frags I picked up.

Nice pensfan! hope you and your friends had a good time. How did you do on the sales end?

dwilliams87 · Apr 19, 2012

andywe - That first coral is gorgeous. Also, those Zoas are killer man. Let me know when they are available.

pensfan · Apr 19, 2012

Dowtish said:
Nice pensfan! hope you and your friends had a good time. How did you do on the sales end?

Not too bad. I would have made more had I not bought and traded so much.:bigsmile:

pensfan · Apr 19, 2012

Also, thanks to all that made this swap possible. We had a great time and hope to make it again next year! Dowtish were you the one that was telling me you put in water towers?