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maxalmon

maxalmon

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Sunday morning is tank cleaning and maintenance day, just finsished and staged these micros and Joker zoa
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Started off as a 2 polyp frag, now there about 20 polyps, they wrap all the way around the plug.

Just got these "Joker" zoa's, huge heads about 3/8 around with tiny, tiny tenacles. Head is deep purple and tentacles are neon green.
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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Thanks guys.....
Today is photography day, finally cleared out a nice space in my frag tank for a staging area, problem isthe corals need to be slightly behind the light source or the top of the coral is bright and front bottom is shaded.....Space is really tight and just to create a 6" square staging area took some serious "moving around"
I've got lots of new stuff to shoot.....
 
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jrthomas40

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Originally Posted by maxalmon
Thanks guys.....
Today is photography day, finally cleared out a nice space in my frag tank for a staging area, problem isthe corals need to be slightly behind the light source or the top of the coral is bright and front bottom is shaded.....Space is really tight and just to create a 6" square staging area took some serious "moving around"
I've got lots of new stuff to shoot.....

wish that was my problem
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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LOL...Yeah, a fully stocked frag tank is nice, but it can become a major pain sometimes as well....
The green/orange cloves are being stubborn and not wanting to open now that i've moved them to the staging area, just putzing around and found these interesting shots
This is one of my favorite stonys, just really interesting to look at and seems to grow rather fast

Found these guys on one of my acro's, really amazing how tiny they are, maybe 1/4 - 3/8" in size

This photo is blurry and it's the best image I could capture, seems that one of my acro's decided to encrust the eggcrate, whats really interesting is the acro's has actually grown enough to reach diagonally from top left to bottom right, meet in the middle and then start growing verticle with nothing underneath it.
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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These blasted orange/green cloves are a royal pain, simply can't capture the correct color

White with purple polyp monti, another hard one to photograph as the white base always comes out beige
 
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jrthomas40

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i have some clove ployps but i cant seem to keep them healthy....for some reason they last a few days then close up and never open again
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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Ah HA...Finally got something thats close to the natural color, weird thing about these particular colormorph cloves is that the orange and green is very faint but intense, almost metalic looking...

 
coral keeper

coral keeper

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Originally Posted by maxalmon
Ah HA...Finally got something thats close to the natural color, weird thing about these particular colormorph cloves is that the orange and green is very faint but intense, almost metalic looking...


Hmmm.... They look kinda fake. Send me some and I'll see if there fake or not and let everyone know.
 
grabbitt

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I am envious of your social circles. I don't know where you get your corals from, but I would definitely keep doing it!
Awesome pics
 
maxalmon

maxalmon

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Originally Posted by GRabbitt
I am envious of your social circles. I don't know where you get your corals from, but I would definitely keep doing it!
Awesome pics

Thanks,...like I've said before, most everything was somekind of trade, and half of those were online trades....
Originally Posted by jrthomas40
i have some clove ployps but i cant seem to keep them healthy....for some reason they last a few days then close up and never open again
Any problems with any other corals? Where do you place them?
Originally Posted by Kevin34
Awsome pics. Is there a difference between micros, macros, and acans?
Micros usually refers to "Micromussa's" or Micro's for short
Macros is a photography term
Acans refers to Acanthastrea
Both the Acans and Micros are LPS, they have a lot of things in common, micro's are a bit smaller.
Originally Posted by Flricordia
beautiful. Are you using off-camera flash? Nice texture it is adding.
No flash, only tank lights. It takes me a while as I have to move the coral around a bit to get the lighting just right.
 
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