Brent's Cube

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Things have started to settle now. There has been some succession on the LR with a few species of sponges starting to grow in the darker areas. I've pruned a few of the sps recently, and will have to start doing this with increasing regularity.
 
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brentch said:
Just before lights out tonight
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Things have started to settle now. There has been some succession on the LR with a few species of sponges starting to grow in the darker areas. I've pruned a few of the sps recently, and will have to start doing this with increasing regularity.
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I'm always impresed with these small tanks. One day I'll do something small like this
 
One of the older winkles I have in my tank likes to come out and say hi every almost every evening. The same guy every time! He comes out, searches the rim of the tank for a minute or two and heads back.
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Another angle. I have been dosing a little heavier on my DIY Vitamin and amino (along with phaeo pigments, carbon, and omega oils) mix as well as RedSea a, b, c, d over the last month and I've seen a big difference in the colours of my coral. Some of the stuff that made the jump across from the nano hadn't really colored back up after the move, but since dosing this stuff they've really picked up in colour.
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I'm not sure if I've mentioned it before, but I've also stopped controlling my CARX with a pH probe as these things drift too quickly to be considered fairly maintenance free. I have changed out two new saga probes in the few months I've had the CaRx hooked up. Finally I reluctantly just tried to dial in the reactor with just the bubble count. Literally a week of fine tuning and it was running perfectly fine. I have the pH probe now still hooked up, but more for monitoring than controlling. Very happy with it running like this.
 
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I turned off the flow to get some nice shots of the corals today. I am really stoked to see things start settling over the past few weeks and I think it is showing in the conditioning of the Acros. Some of these were poo brown and dull pea green when I moved them across from the frag tank and my nano. Super happy with the progress, and now considering throwing in some high end Acros when I have some money.
These are also just cellphone Pics with no filter, so I'm keen to get one of those clip on lenses too to really show off some of the more subtle colours in the sticks!

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Looking great. I assume you used a DSLR for your diving pics, why don't you use that for your tank shots?
 
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Looking great. I assume you used a DSLR for your diving pics, why don't you use that for your tank shots?
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I don't have a dslr, I have a Canon G16 which is kind of in between a point n shoot and a dlsr. It's just a real mission to get the pics off the camera and onto the PC, and then email to cellphone. The wifi on the camera is not working so it's really made things a bit of a mission. A few of the photo sets previously were with the camera, but that's when I have the time. My phone actually doesn't do too bad to be honest. I was really happy with the photos above. It just misses some of the nuanced colours that the eye pics up in real life. I think a filter might solve that possibly...?
 
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I don't have a dslr, I have a Canon G16 which is kind of in between a point n shoot and a dlsr. It's just a real mission to get the pics off the camera and onto the PC, and then email to cellphone. The wifi on the camera is not working so it's really made things a bit of a mission. A few of the photo sets previously were with the camera, but that's when I have the time. My phone actually doesn't do too bad to be honest. I was really happy with the photos above. It just misses some of the nuanced colours that the eye pics up in real life. I think a filter might solve that possibly...?
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Your phone pics are good. I could be wrong but I think filters over exaggerate some colours.
 
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