Durso's 180 gallon in wall tank. - Page 19

IMM3DOORSDOWN · #**451** 05/05/2007, 10:13 AM

AWESOME PICS

original-reefland · #**452** 05/05/2007, 10:30 AM

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Originally posted by IMM3DOORSDOWN
AWESOME PICS

Thanks!

Just added one for my orange linkia.

frederickk · #**453** 05/07/2007, 06:35 PM

Wow nice. They are so brightful

original-reefland · #**454** 05/07/2007, 09:35 PM

Anyone notice the cover shot of http://www.reefkeeping.com this month?

Purdy looking clam

melev · #**455** 05/08/2007, 12:48 AM

I sure did! Congrats for scoring the front cover Rich!

Hop · #**456** 05/08/2007, 01:37 AM

I've been so darn busy I didn't notice until now. Nice job!!!!

Ah64av8tor · #**457** 05/08/2007, 06:11 AM

Congrats Rich,

See I told you before that I wished I had half of the photography skills you have, now you gotta go and get better leaving me farther behind.

original-reefland · #**458** 05/08/2007, 08:39 PM

thanks guys!

original-reefland · #**459** 05/12/2007, 09:00 PM

I've talked a few times about the Trochus snails gathering for mass spawning events in my tank. I've even posted pictures of some of the off spring produced. I finally timed the event to have the glass cleaned in time for the event.

original-reefland · #**460** 05/12/2007, 09:03 PM

At this point the tank has millions of eggs and so much sperm the tank has a white haze. In this picture you can even see the eggs in the water.

You can see the white haze pretty well in this picture. The plankton eating angel fish are stuffed.

Hop · #**461** 05/12/2007, 09:22 PM

LOL. You might need a parental advisory on a few of those shots

That is pretty intriguing. I wonder why they flourish in your tank like that and what tells them it's time... Maybe others like myself have similar events, but have not seen them before.

original-reefland · #**462** 05/17/2007, 01:42 PM

Last week I went down to Atlantis Marine World Aquarium in Riverhead Long Island, NY. They claimed to be the largest live coral reef display in the United States at over 20,000 gallons. The display is 30x14x6.5 feet and was just featured in the May issue of Coral Magazine.

I have lots more pictures in my gallery:

http://gallery.rl180reef.com/v/Tours/atlantis/exhibits/

I also have pictures of the behind the scences tour:

http://gallery.rl180reef.com/v/Tours/atlantis/behind/

melev · #**463** 05/17/2007, 02:07 PM

How did you like it Rich? Get any ideas for your system?

Off to look at your galleries!

melev · #**464** 05/17/2007, 02:20 PM

Great pictures. I love this reef shot, so I played with it in Photoshop slightly.

Before:

After:

DaveJ · #**465** 05/17/2007, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by Hop
LOL. You might need a parental advisory on a few of those shots

That is pretty intriguing. I wonder why they flourish in your tank like that and what tells them it's time... Maybe others like myself have similar events, but have not seen them before.

Its the clicking on the glass that warns me it is happening.... all those little shells bouncing up and down and twisting hitting the glass. Then the smell of cig smoke after its all over of course....

original-reefland · #**466** 05/17/2007, 04:55 PM

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Originally posted by melev
How did you like it Rich? Get any ideas for your system? Off to look at your galleries!

Nah. But it was interesting to see they use the same equipment we use. Any seasoned reef keeper would feel at home helping out at that place. There was nothing that made you say "whats that" or "I should try that". It's either bigger than we use or just more of something we use.

They wouldn't give us the back tour of the 20,000 gallon tank itself though. I was hoping our tour guide would bump into the Joe (the curator) and we could ask him some more detailed questions and a tour. But he wasn't around.

I would have loved to see the calcium reactor they use

original-reefland · #**467** 05/17/2007, 04:57 PM

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Its the clicking on the glass that warns me it is happening.... all those little shells bouncing up and down and twisting hitting the glass. Then the smell of cig smoke after its all over of course....

I though I heard one ask for 50 bucks or something.

DaveJ · #**468** 05/17/2007, 05:01 PM

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I though I heard one ask for 50 bucks or something.

At least it wasn't one asking the other..."How old did you say you were again??"

original-reefland · #**469** 05/17/2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally posted by melev
Great pictures. I love this reef shot, so I played with it in Photoshop slightly.

Nice. There were too many pictures to worry about cleaning them up. The glass was a bit dirty and full of scratches. It was hard to get good pictures. This is one of my favorite shots:

The fish even has the "oh that feels good" expression. A few times a queue of fish lined up waiting to be serviced. And several times the customer fish darted away as if what the cleaner fish did hurt. It happened often enough that I wondered if there was a false cleaner in the mix.

melev · #**470** 05/17/2007, 06:08 PM

Yeah, that one made me laugh.

Btw, did you find out the spectrum of the 1000w MH bulb?

DaveJ · #**471** 05/17/2007, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by original-reefland

The fish even has the "oh that feels good" expression. A few times a queue of fish lined up waiting to be serviced. And several times the customer fish darted away as if what the cleaner fish did hurt. It happened often enough that I wondered if there was a false cleaner in the mix.

You can almost see his fin slapping the water like a dogs leg thumping when you scratch it. Rarely a camera around for a moment like that!! I've had cleaner shrimp riding on the sides of tangs across the tank before but never had a camera handy.

Hop · #**472** 05/17/2007, 06:18 PM

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You can almost see his fin slapping the water like a dogs leg thumping when you scratch it.

That is what I was thinking when I saw it.

original-reefland · #**473** 05/17/2007, 06:28 PM

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Originally posted by melev
Btw, did you find out the spectrum of the 1000w MH bulb?

Nope, didn't ask.

original-reefland · #**474** 05/30/2007, 12:15 AM

Just got back from two week business trip. This is the longest I've ever been from my reef tank... ever. Glad to say all went well, no losses to report.

Before I left I loaded up my iPod with ReefCasts -- nice job Melev. I got up to about episode 7... yeah, I'm a bit behind.

tankslave · #**475** 06/04/2007, 02:13 AM

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Originally posted by melev
Yeah, that one made me laugh.

Btw, did you find out the spectrum of the 1000w MH bulb?

It's got a whole bunch of lines in it...