Here's one of mine. Yellow ring blasto. Taken with my old point and shoot camera + flash.

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T...0/IMG_5603.JPG

The Pièce de résistance of my LPS collection: My Aussie Ultra Rainbow Acan Lord 26 polyp mini-colony!


My camera, lighting and photography skill s*x so I brought this acan over to my friend March's place (marc3lo19) and he photographed it for me using his dslr under his full spectrum lights.

Photo taken by March:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W...0/IMG_7899.jpg

No photo editing was done at all. I watched as it took March only about 5 minutes to take the pictures, transfer them to his computer, convert to jpeg and email them out to me. What took longer was waiting for the acan to adequately open up/ inflate in his tank. That took around 30 minutes.


For comparison the pictures below are taken with my old point and shoot camera in my 40B mix display macro algae and coral tank.

I spot lit the acan with my all actinic par38 bulb to show what it looks like under actinics:
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-v...IMG_5640AX.JPG

Same shot with my t5ho plant lights turned on and par 38 actinic used for accent:
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-2...IMG_5654AX.JPG


Some shots from the side/ front of the tank:

Spot lit with my par 38 all actinic bulb:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a.../IMG_5638A.JPG

Same shot with just my aquarium lights (t5ho) lights on:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...675%2520AX.JPG

Attachment 10163 does anyone know what type of Lps this is?

Here is a great website for obtaining Coral IDs: http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPages/

It appears to be a type of Favia sp.
:)

baby plate hitchhiker
 

found at Golds

i would gguess it is a:
http://coral.aims.gov.au/speciesPage...ata/0002/view#

It seems I'm developing a liking to blastos now... LOL. :lol:

The latest addition to my collection of LPS ... a colony of red rimmed, maroon/ black center, neon green mouth blastos!

Purchased 1+ weeks ago here it is still in the store bag. Picture taken under a 2300K desk lamp:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-E...0/IMG_5827.JPG


Different angle with the desk lamp facing away/ low light shot.
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-y...0/IMG_5843.JPG


Under my par 38 leds... 6 blues 4 white 2 red array.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-a...0/IMG_5841.JPG

Here's my modest picture some nice Candy Cane, GSP & a small green Rici
http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...ver1/002-1.jpg

Wow that blasto is going to look off the charts once it starts to relax and open up more. Please post a couple more pictures after it's been in your tank a week or two (please and thank you!)!

Was sold as a Aussie Acan but not sure if it is something else? The Polyps are about an inch.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4962.jpg

Acan Maxima

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4966.jpg

Symphyllia that I hope will fully recover. Starting to colour up.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4968.jpg

This is also colouring up.
Shot from a week and a half ago.

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t..._4882-Copy.jpg

Shot taken three days ago

http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t...s/IMG_4963.jpg

Chris