My favorite Blasto

[maxalmon]

Whats kinda fun is that when this guy is expanded all you see is green/red..........but when you bother him and he retracts, you get all these purples/reds/greens/blues....... Also notice the incredibly tiny baby on the bottom of the last pic

 

[17cuddlefish]

wow those are really nice. You have a really nice camera. Those are those the ones in your avitar right? Just about how long is that baby one in the second pic because it looks really small.

 

[detguy313]

nice blasto...they are my favorite corals..i have a few different ones..my purple welsi has about 10 baby polyps i counted when i was feeding tonight..it just takes those small ones a long time to grow out...nice pics i love that color!!!

 

[maxalmon]

I've had this one for about a year and I was getting bummed because it would never grow, every thing else in the tank does....... One day I noticed that it was looking like crap and starting to take a closer look and found this really tiny aptasia on the backside of the frag (I couldn't see it from the front) and the aptasia just about killed half the backside of the frag, needless to say I removed the aptasia......This was about 6weeks ago, now I've got about a dozen little baby polyps, seems like the aptasia attack triggered some type of reproduction defense.....Hum, got me thinking about a new experiment...

 

[maxalmon]

That really tiny baby polyp is about 1/8" the entire frag is about 2"L

 

[caseysimp7]

that is by far the best blasto i have EVER seen!!!!how are yer pics SO good

 

[rebelprettyboy]

I want some of those~!

 

[maxalmon]

Originally Posted by caseysimp7
http:///forum/post/2482332
that is by far the best blasto i have EVER seen!!!!how are yer pics SO good
Thanks for nice compliment

I've spent the better part of the last 6 months simply playing around with the camera and figuring out the settings. I will admitt that a major part of the image quality is my 105mm Macro VR lens, well worth the money. Plus I usually stage the corals so that I can capture the best image, this means that I have to move corals around within the tank inorder to capture the best lighting, this can take a day or two as I have to wait for the coral to expand and become "happy" LOL.
I can't stress enough how much having a tripod, using the shutter timer, turning off all the pumps and then lots of patience and a boatload of unusable images inorder to capture that 1 good image. Manual focus is also the only way I will shoot corals.

 

[detguy313]

Originally Posted by maxalmon
http:///forum/post/2482901
Thanks for nice compliment

I've spent the better part of the last 6 months simply playing around with the camera and figuring out the settings. I will admitt that a major part of the image quality is my 105mm Macro VR lens, well worth the money. Plus I usually stage the corals so that I can capture the best image, this means that I have to move corals around within the tank inorder to capture the best lighting, this can take a day or two as I have to wait for the coral to expand and become "happy" LOL.
I can't stress enough how much having a tripod, using the shutter timer, turning off all the pumps and then lots of patience and a boatload of unusable images inorder to capture that 1 good image. Manual focus is also the only way I will shoot corals.
i agree with the above lots of patience and lots of bad shots before getting the one that is golden

 

[stephish]

Gorgeous!!!

 

[drea]

now that is a really nice coral!

 

[kevin34]