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reefislife
04/22/2002, 10:32 AM
Hello All,
I am new to this group and new to reef keeping, however I am designing a web site for some m8's who run a shop in the UK. The web site is www.tauntonaquariumcentre.co.uk if anyone is interested if you snurf to the customer section you can see the build of my tank from start to now, please bare in mind that is is only 4 months old.

Anyway I am not a pro web designer just one of my hobbies, if anyone has images of the following that they dont mind letting me use I would be very grateful .

Brain - coloured : Brain - Red : Bubble - Pearl : Euphyllia - Cornet : Finger - Staghorn : Goniopora lobata - Coloured : Gonipora lobata - Common : Sping Brain - coloured.

As u will see from the site I have miles and I mean miles to go so any help with pictures would be gratefully received, I will shortly be starting the other sections as well.

Also I use a Kodak DX-3600 and it is now showing its limitations so anyone with advice on this camera, would also be of use.

Cheers for now,

walterm3
04/22/2002, 12:45 PM
Here is a picture of my Red Brain:

reefislife
04/22/2002, 12:47 PM
One word.......WOW!!!

Mushroom
04/22/2002, 03:10 PM
Your website is looking good and it is nice to know of a UK shop having seemingly a good selection of inverts. However, you have to be very careful with your request. People tend to see pictures of corals of a shop website and persume they can get similiar quality when they actually go and visit that shop. Now imagine someone seeing all the stunning photographs that ReefCentral members are donating and only to realise none of the corals featured has ever been in your shop.

I saw you have used that stunning Red Brain picture already without any acknowledgement that it is not a photo of your own. What is the chances of your shop ever has a specimen like that? Pretty slim is probably your answer and I would not be surprised if that coral came originally from specialised USA shops like Cquarium.

reefislife
04/22/2002, 03:43 PM
Hi,

Yep I know what your saying, but let me assure you you would be surprised, very surprised, their invert section is unbelieveable, even at the expense of the fish. I will put an acknowledgement on the site for the picture but is so heavily underconstruction at the moment that I just dropped it in there, as yet 99% of all pictures are of actual stock that has been in the shop.

Its not a sales pitch because I'm sure most of the readers on this forum are from USA.

The shop is in Somerset and already they have customers traveling from London @ weekends.

I'm not saying drop everything and go there because everyone has their favourite shops, however if your in the area....well just give it a try.


Honest,.
:)

reefislife
04/22/2002, 04:07 PM
Dear all,

Thanks to Mushroom for pointing out my error in not acknowledging 'walterm3' for his picture of the red brain.

I have now corrected this on the web site, any further pictures will have a similar acknowledgment if requested by the sender, I do not want to steal other peoples work, which is precisely why I put a request on the forum rather than steal other peoples work from their web sites, which is not the way I act.

I would also like to point out that all images in the upper part of each section were actually taken at the shop (just look at the range of Acropora at the time of the photos), the lower section is more for information purposes, and trying to show as many different corals as possible and how they should be kept (some of which may be very difficult to obtain).

If anyone feels I am going around this the wrong way please let me know.

Thankyou 'walterm3' once again.

LisaP
04/23/2002, 10:15 AM
Hi Craig,

It's nice to see a UK shop making an effort to put together an interesting and informative web-site. Good luck to you. :D

Now then, I have a picture of a coloured Goniopora, I couldn't tell you if it was G. lobata though (they all look the same to me unfortunately). Let me know if you'd like to use it. :)

Regards

Lisa

P.S. Please don't say that it's 'a good beginners coral' :rolleyes:

reefislife
04/23/2002, 11:47 AM
Thankyou LisaP

Dont worry I wont say its a beginners coral.

Reason.

I'm currently losing my Goni, its quite sad, its appears to be melting before my eyes, my Organ pipe went the same way.

I'd be inclined to believe I'd added hard coral to quick but my Trumpet and Euphyllia's are doing ok.

Anyone know what Goniopora's need alot of, or is it just PURRRRRFECT water conditions?

reefislife
04/23/2002, 11:50 AM
sorry forgot,

yes I would like to use the image, thats if you dont mind, not sure yet which one it is, but I will no doubt find out.

LisaP
04/23/2002, 01:07 PM
Craig,

Well if you do find out what the species is be sure to let me know ;)

Ahhh now, nobody really knows the conditions required to keep Gonioporas alive. A few people have success with them but most do not. :( The red ones are reportedly easier to maintain. I don't know where the data comes from to support that statement though. I've only had mine for 8 months so I can't really comment on its hardiness yet. It 'seems' to be doing well so far.

Regards

Lisa

Mushroom
04/23/2002, 03:44 PM
Thanks for the correction Craig, you may want to try UltimateReef.com as well which is a bit like the UK version of ReefCentral.;)

Sicklid
05/04/2002, 09:59 PM
Hey Reefislife,
Try some Black Powder. I have two Gonioporas that started fully extending after I started using it.

reefislife
05/08/2002, 12:58 PM
What is black powder?

Sicklid
05/08/2002, 01:18 PM
Try this thread

http://archive.reefcentral.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82950&highlight=black+powder