The Fruit of my Labour

[flubberina13]

Hey...wanna try out my photography skills...

here's some pics of my tank...

The specs...I will furnish in lieu...

Dimensions :

Tank : 4 by 2 by 2 (10 or 12mm glass...forgot liao)

Sump : 2.5 by 1.5 by 1.5

Sandbed : volca chips, #0, #1 and #3 sand and chips

Bought the #3 bags of chips whithout realising and find it laychei to return so just dump them in...Mistake right?...

[flubberina13]

here's another one...

Edited October 19, 2003 by Tanzy

[Hon]

Nice nice ..any more??

[flubberina13]

My rose and Tommy...

Edited October 19, 2003 by Tanzy

[flubberina13]

Hey...any photography experts here? Can tell from the pics what should I do to bring out their natural colours...Colours a bit washed out here...

And btw, the seahorses came from my seahorse tank which has currently been converted to a nursery...

And I also need constructive advice to improve on my tank...

[marinebetta]

Nice Rose anemone and clown! Pics look OK but if you want to try to correct the colors to what you see, try adjusting with photoshop or other graphics program.

[flubberina13]

Nice Rose anemone and clown! Pics look OK but if you want to try to correct the colors to what you see, try adjusting with photoshop or other graphics program.

[metals99]

if u know to use your digital cam properly set to manual or set the compensation for your digital camera to 1 + stop and use a slow shutter..

u would need a tripod.. orelse camera shake.. that will make your pics bright and vibrant.. and no need the use of flash..

for manual setting i think u should set your digi cam to flurescent lighting.. not daylight..

[DeepBlue]

like the look of your clownfish........looks really happy...totally ecstatic!!!

I think your tank really got potential to dump in quite a lot of corals....you are right...your tank's rockwork looks like mine in a certain way....

can look out for corals with assorted colours like green, red, orange and pink ones...basically like a little garden...a good mix of colour will really brighten up the whole tank!!!

As for LR...I am trying to grow red c. algae all over...helps in adding colour to tank as well.....did you see Ming's LR in the pair of clownfish tank? Really nice ones...or go AT's house and scrape the blue ones....keke.....

you have tunze...not going sps...than have LPS...like hammers, torch and octos....

b4 that het the chiller during Aquarama just in case weather decides to be mean one day.....

[flubberina13]

like the look of your clownfish........looks really happy...totally ecstatic!!!

I think your tank really got potential to dump in quite a lot of corals....you are right...your tank's rockwork looks like mine in a certain way....

can look out for corals with assorted colours like green, red, orange and pink ones...basically like a little garden...a good mix of colour will really brighten up the whole tank!!!

As for LR...I am trying to grow red c. algae all over...helps in adding colour to tank as well.....did you see Ming's LR in the pair of clownfish tank?    Really nice ones...or go AT's house and scrape the blue ones....keke.....

you have tunze...not going sps...than have LPS...like hammers, torch and octos....

b4 that het the chiller during Aquarama just in case weather decides to be mean one day.....

haha...that's why I switch on the living room's aircon at times...kinda overkilled..right? An aircon with 9000btu for a 4ft tank...

Btw, no algae growth because of the previous use of the ozoniser. Still waiting and dosing calcium stuff...

[Bob]

Nice & sharp pics you got there.

Can i know what camera you use.Need to purchase one coz my exsisting camera died.

[flubberina13]

You wouldn't want mine...It comes with so many functions until I dun know which one to use. Still waiting for someone to teach me...

Hint : 32 functions besdie the sidelines type...

And yup..just found out...my glass is 12mm thick and the whole tank cost me $796.00 including cabinet and the return pump...

Thanks to my cousin's lobang...

[PLataX]

nice rock work....but your LR got very little coraline algae leh.....did u buy dead rocks?

[flubberina13]

nice rock work....but your LR got very little coraline algae leh.....did u buy dead rocks?

Told you already...I used an ozoniser and still have volca chips...Cost me a bomb but they are good in cleaning my water...

[nutx]

Nice tank...

Like your rose anemone....where you got it.....

looking for one ...

[Cleartank]

Hey...wanna try out my photography skills...

here's some pics of my tank...

flub, If you really wanna try your photography skills, use my lousy crapy, stinking camera....

Anyway your tank ROCKS!!!!

like your pictures too...NICE!!

[flubberina13]

Nice tank...

Like your rose anemone....where you got it.....

looking for one ...

They come in periodically...you just have to have a lucky star on top of your head...In this case, I have two...Jewel and Dispar Anthias...kudos to you...

[hammer99]

Nice tank.

A few questions.

1) u said u use a fixture of sands, how u mix the sands to form the DSB ... for example C0, then C1, then C3 ?????

2) What kind of lighting u use ?? is it MH light ??

[seahorse2]

Nice tank. Hope to see in person..

[metals99]

actually nice tank.. hope to see u put more corals in..

[onghm]

Can tell from the pics what should I do to bring out their natural colours...Colours a bit washed out here...

Can always try some post-editing to touch up the photos.

For example :-

1) crop out unnecessary background. You want the attention to be on the main subject

2) adjust color balance, increase contrast

3) subtle blurring of the background; again to bring attention to main subject

4) add a black/white backing/framing to bring out the colours

my 2 cents

Did the above on your tommy.

Hope u don't mind

[shiraz]

wow! really improved the pic! onghm, did u use photoshop??

i borrowed a book on how to use photoshop the other day but did not even open it! tommy really looks soooo handsome! hmm flubberina, how did u know it was a male...

really nice take.. sandbed looks cool... hmmm so when is your open-house??

[onghm]

Hi Shiraz,

Yup, using photoshop.

Yeah, Flubberina, when is the open house ?

[Anthony]

onghm

so all ur videocam pic u edited using photoshop?... (the motion blurr part.)

[flubberina13]

Hi Shiraz,

Yup, using photoshop.

Yeah, Flubberina, when is the open house ?

Like that you tell me 'open house'??? Then, AT's one must be 'open castle' liao...

Anyway, thanks for the compliments...still not good enough...improving more when I can find colours and after upgrading my lights come this December...

Aiyoh...I got so much to do...

1) upgrade skimmer (Mine only cheapo type...can't even find the brand name!!! )

2) buy a more suitable chiller

3) find more contrasting colours or maybe it's my lights...as I look at it, my tank quite colourful leh...

4) buy a bigger tank!!!

Nutx...they are not readily available...you just have to wish upon a star to get your rose anemone...In my case, I have two stars...Jewel and Dispar...thanks guys...

Hammer99...I put in about eight to ten bags of sand plus ten packs of the volca chips. The chips are not those orange colour ones and I think they are not available anymore. I didn't realise that I had accidentally bought two bags of #3 and find it cumbersome to go back to the shop to exchange, so i just wash them together with my #1 and lay them in my tank. Then I have the #0 on top. Finally I lay the volca chips and voila...I pour water and start to cycle...