Noted- No more trips to Asia.
Gettin Dirty
- Thread starter 90gDreams
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Officially back up and running well. Installed a full hydros controller system for the ATO, dosing, monitoring, and wave engines. I transferred two clowns from a 29g biocube and shut down back after the crash along with a Biota coral beauty and yellow tang. Most of the LPS recovered and is growing well. Added a few SPS and things are growing and stable. Over the last two weeks I added two Biota Pavos, a Biota Mandarin and a pair of ORA orchid dottybacks. Got one big order of coral on its way Friday as well and then time to let it all grow out again and hopefully make longer than 4.5 years this time.
Going to try and take some better pictures soon here. The amount of random life from that original live rock even after the crash is still cool. Probably have 20+ small clams still alive, several encrusting corals and cup corals. Half the rock is man made stuff now and I like the style but the life from offshore harvested rock is just unbeatable.
FWIW, I can't recommend the Orphek (or other brand) phone camera filters highly enough for people who like to take pictures of their tank. The night-and-day difference in photo quality is something else.
I have a set actually. Maybe I'll start doing better about grabbing them sooner or later
So, not the best photos in the first place (bad angle through glass, background lights on, open door creating reflections, didn't use the CPL lens, etc), and not taken just for this purpose (lights are already off), but I happened to have this example handy...
without filter:
And with 15000k + 20000k filters:
without filter:
And with 15000k + 20000k filters:
Yes: there were other lights on in the room beyond the tank's lights, both a set of overhead lights, two different desk/table lamps, and then all the light coming in from the open door to the kitchen, all of which were causing glare on the tank glass.
