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NOY's 110g mixed reef

Thanks for sharing the great pics. I can't believe how clear some of the pictures turned out. You definately can't tell you were shooting through glass and some of the pictures don't even look like they are under water!

Nice looking collection of sun corals as well. Any tips/tricks on keeping them happy and healhty?

Shoot perpendicular to the glass and use a macro lense - this eliminates any distortion.

As for the Sun Corals - i have a routine where I feed with blood worms and brine alternatively. I wait until the main lights go out (which is 10pm for me) and feed. The fish will leave the food alone that way (asleep or in their little caves). I use "julian's thing" for the brine and a small turkey baster for the blood worms. I direct food into the heads. The Tubastrea don't need a lot of precision in feeding but with the dendro you do need to make sure the each head gets fed. Right now i feed every other day.

When you get them I would really recommend a daily feeding regiment because they are usually in bad shape at the LFS.

Otherwise they are pretty easy to keep and very forgiving as far as water parameters.

Whoa, great pics and awesome collection! FTS? What are your specs? Husbandry? :-)

Wow, great pics. It looks like you're actually diving while taking those pictures.

Full Tank Shots
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FTS2 by Ngai On, on Flickr
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FTS1 by Ngai On, on Flickr

Since I'm at it more pic's

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IMG_4704 by Ngai On, on Flickr

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IMG_4718 by Ngai On, on Flickr

IMG_4708 by Ngai On, on Flickr

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IMG_4707 by Ngai On, on Flickr

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IMG_4705 by Ngai On, on Flickr

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IMG_4683 by Ngai On, on Flickr

As for setup- 110g (tall), 30 gallon sump, CSC 250 skimmer, mangroves+grape caulerpa+chaeto in refugium (along with deep sand bed), GFO, carbon, used to run biopellets but stopped this week, dose seachem fusion (2 part), reef roids 3x a week, occasional dose of amino acid.

Awesome pictures! How do you adjust the white balance? looks great
the dendros prefer being on the bottom of the tank more?

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Originally Posted by Salty23 (Post 796408)

Awesome pictures! How do you adjust the white balance? looks great
the dendros prefer being on the bottom of the tank more?

My camera has a WB setting for 7K (shade) and I generally shoot without any room lighting.
I try to give some shade to the dendros from other corals but they are still fairly high on the tank.