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February FTS!

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And only blue LEDs

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Does anyone know of another truly orange glowing coral (coloration like my acan on the right) that I could add to the tank. I've been eyeing the orange torch at SWE but at over $100 I can't quite pull the trigger.

Or are there any corals that would be a glowing yellow under LEDs? Not interested in zoas or softies on either coral color.
 
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Shame you put the last sentence in there, as I've got some truly radioactive orange yumas.

Else I've seen some gorgeous orange plate corals.
 
I purchased a pink lemonad acro from someone in the forum and it glows pretty well under my blue LEDs. It's more of a fluorescent yellow with hints of pink. Very pretty, and love the tank!

I just have one question, how do you get your corals and fish to show up on camera? When ever I take a photo with my iPhone it always turns up blue and you can't see the coral. Is it an adjustment on a camera or is it the lighting?
 
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Shame you put the last sentence in there, as I've got some truly radioactive orange yumas.

Else I've seen some gorgeous orange plate corals.
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I might take you up on the Yumas, after I posted that I forgot that Ricordias and Yumas have quite a bit of glowing coloration and I don't mind their shape unlike the leathers and such.

The plate I thought about, there are a few places that have orange and green plates but I'm trying to have nothing on my sand bed. Maybe sometime in the future a clam, in the gap on the left 1/3 of the tank, but I want to limit it to that.

ConnorG said:
I purchased a pink lemonad acro from someone in the forum and it glows pretty well under my blue LEDs. It's more of a fluorescent yellow with hints of pink. Very pretty, and love the tank!

I just have one question, how do you get your corals and fish to show up on camera? When ever I take a photo with my iPhone it always turns up blue and you can't see the coral. Is it an adjustment on a camera or is it the lighting?
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Do you have a pictures of it? Its funny I ask that when the next thing you say is "How do you take these pictures" lol.

For the LONGEST time I too had so much trouble taking pictures under LEDs. They would turn out all blue or magenta, even under daylight shots. Some people said camera phones took better pictures than DSLRs and not properly set up, they do. But I discovered a little trick to get almost perfect pictures really fast with a DSLR. If you have it set up for RAW it will take a beautiful uncompressed images with lots of adjust-ability for anything beside Reef Photography, the problem is that even with software adjustments they still don't look right.

So I found this quick tip. Use Jpeg image mode in your DSLR and set the white balance to a plastic white object inside the tank or nearby. I found even if I white balanced correctly and shot in RAW format the image would look great on my camera but terrible on my computer (They would still look supernova blue and purple) the reason is a lot of these pictures have a built in range that the color is suppose to fall between 2,000K - 50,000K. If you open up a RAW image in Lightroom or Photoshop you can see this range, and often times for me it would max out at 50,000 and not know what to do. By taking the image in Jpeg format even if the image is 75,000K blue that image is baked the moment it is captured and you don't have to worry about the computer not being able to read the image correctly.

Did that make any sense or was I talking alien for a little bit there.?:lookaround:
 
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I had a dslr camera until someone in my family broke it! Il try to get one okay sometime though.

It did make sense I just don't have the right camera...Thanks alot though:)
 
Your link will do it, or the flames from hell leptastrea looks great under leds (ORANGE), not so much under my t5s (looked like a brown turd so I ditched it). SWE has some very nice sized pieces in the tanks on the back wall.
 
Tank is looking very good!
I don't know if you are looking for any zoas, but Orange Bam Bams can glow orange like no other. There are some dull strains out there but I think the good Bright orange fluorescent ones have made their way around enough that they are available. I got a pic of mine in my build thread somewhere twords one of the last pages
http://www.tcmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37687
 
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Tank is looking very good!
I don't know if you are looking for any zoas, but Orange Bam Bams can glow orange like no other. There are some dull strains out there but I think the good Bright orange fluorescent ones have made their way around enough that they are available. I got a pic of mine in my build thread somewhere twords one of the last pages
http://www.tcmas.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37687
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Jayntina has some very very very bright orange looking bam bams, I got a frag from him and they glow crazy orange and thats just under my mhs ^ good call Chuckytt
 
Here is the best picture I could get. It's under day lights so it doesn't glow as much.
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Wondering if there is any interest in a club meeting at the Pixel Farm office?

My plan would be a weekday in the next month or two. 5-6:30 for Happy Hour at Nami (located on the first floor of our building in downtown Minneapolis) Have some beer, sushi, chat with members. Happy Hour ends at 6:30 so we would do a little around the bar for introductions and discussion on club matters if people had them. Then I would take groups of people upstairs to view and talk about the tank and it's build. If there is time I can give small tours of our office space as well.

Quick tour of the office, http://vimeo.com/24276773 My room is only walked passed in the video.
 
My wife and I are putting our house on the market next month so I wanted to take nice photos of our rooms. I don't own a wide angle lens but thanks to a coworker I was loaned one for the weekend. And since I'm already at work with it I might as well take some shots of the fishtank with a new perspective.

Full Room Shot
(This would have turned out great if I took the time to get a tripod and shoot an HDRI. The rest of the room would be the correctly white balanced and exposured. But at least the important part is highlighted)
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View in full Resolution - http://i.imgur.com/Xcm3mxj.jpg

Wide Angle FTS
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View in full Resolution - http://i.imgur.com/lqfNXxO.jpg
 
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I just love this tank :beerchug:
A happy hour sounds like a great idea.
 
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