Roidan's Reef (III)

[AlfaRomeo]

Bro, updates on the AT pls? new pic? My favourite fish from your tank

[roidan]

elegance still going strong

[roidan]

Bro, updates on the AT pls? new pic? My favourite fish from your tank

let me have a nap first...later in the afternoon i go snap...

gf on leave 3 weeks...i also declare leave 3 weeks....

then again, ain't i almost on leave almost the whole year round?

[dradttg]

elegance still going strong

Hi Bro Roidan,

Does you elegance open most of the time? My elegance happy happy open, happy happy dont open.

I read Coral book and its says that this is normal.

[roidan]

Hi Bro Roidan,

Does you elegance open most of the time? My elegance happy happy open, happy happy dont open.

I read Coral book and its says that this is normal.

hi dradttg:

yeah..somestimes it doesn't open too big..i notice that around 3pm to evening is the time when it starts to contact...means morning open big big...later afternoon resting....at night open bigbig again...total darkness....the meat goes into the hard skeleton

[roidan]

Bro, updates on the AT pls? new pic? My favourite fish from your tank

there you go

[roidan]

a friend came over today and the first thing he said was...

wah...your AT big...

he never seen those giants at marine life yet

[AlfaRomeo]

Wow!! have always enjoyed looking at your AT... very healthy and beautiful. *slurp slurp*

How do you keep it so healthy when a lot of others are facing problems with ICH and the specimens refusing to eat and only pecking at the LR?

I believe a lot of reefers has lost the fishes to fish heaven

[roidan]

haha..no secrets...feed them many times a day....the tangs benefitted alot from my 5 to 6 times feeding regime when i had my school of anthias..but seems that they grab up the food faster than the anthias and end up fattening beyond my belief ...

end up have to give up my schools of anthias by netting watever i can and feed less and painfully seeing the numbers declining slowly....

but like you have said....its hard to keep healthy tangs...so i made a choice to keep my huge tangs rather than the anthias which i will definitely get back when my new skimmer is here...

no secrets...feed alot.....the best way to stop ich is prevention itself....before it has a chance to turn into an outbreak...sometimes there are isolated spots but unless you see my pics at 8megapixel size...then you may see a few spots..other than that....as far as photos, they are pretty ich free

[roidan]

the BEST shot i have taken of my blackcaps...

can even see the scales right?

[AlfaRomeo]

What are the settings you using on the F828? Fully Auto or manual? WB?

[AlfaRomeo]

haha..no secrets...feed them many times a day....the tangs benefitted alot from my 5 to 6 times feeding regime when i had my school of anthias..but seems that they grab up the food faster than the anthias and end up fattening beyond my belief ...

end up have to give up my schools of anthias by netting watever i can and feed less and painfully seeing the numbers declining slowly....

but like you have said....its hard to keep healthy tangs...so i made a choice to keep my huge tangs rather than the anthias which i will definitely get back when my new skimmer is here...

no secrets...feed alot.....the best way to stop ich is prevention itself....before it has a chance to turn into an outbreak...sometimes there are isolated spots but unless you see my pics at 8megapixel size...then you may see a few spots..other than that....as far as photos, they are pretty ich free

Prevention? You mean quarantine until it has recovered form the almost compulsory initial ICH out-break?

[roidan]

What are the settings you using on the F828? Fully Auto or manual? WB?

combination..some shots taken at full auto...some at manual

some i took at iso100, f2.0 or f2.5 as suggested by weileong....speed maybe around 1/60 to 1/80

still playing around with the settings

[roidan]

Prevention? You mean quarantine until it has recovered form the almost compulsory initial ICH out-break?

prevention starts from the time you go to the shop to see...

once you see slight dots, try not to buy...

even if no dots...may not mean no infection also...

in fact, i believe my tangs all carry a low infection rate..but doesnt show up drastically their bodies....

feed alot...easier said than done....especially for you sps keepers, if the feeding is too much, end up sacrificing your sps...

cannot have everything in the world in such a small tank, just like sps can never do well in my system which is nutrient laden from all the fishes and feeding...

cannot be greedy....for me...i always like the dynamic movement of corals, anemones and fishes....so i stick to what i love and what i am doing now

for me, sps are beautiful and are picture perfect...but to me, they stop at just that,

picture perfect

[roidan]

update today, whole tank view

[roidan]

whiplash from current too strong..left side abit squashed

[roidan]

my precioussss...had it since november last year

[roidan]

this angle not so nice..i prefer the earlier shot

[roidan]

[roidan]

after this short power failure,

now i appreciate having UPS

now charged back to 5 bars already...

from the time of blackout to power restored, used up 1 bar....

the intial surge draw will suck more juice, than the running comsumption

[Tigger]

how much does this UPS cost?

[roidan]

how much does this UPS cost?

fren got it for me at a good price..

if you get from normal retail channels,

could set you back between 1k to 2k for my model..

this is an APC SMART-UPS using pure sine waveform

[roidan]

my infatuation with my fren's bartletts,

will get them for my tank in due time

[roidan]

i am seriously drooling

[roidan]

colours straight off my cam...no editing