ADA 60p Tank Journal

[cichlid1409]

great pics, man! love the NPS

[semper]

Looking good Thai

[TonyO]

Gorgeous!

[myjohnson]

Below are pictures of corals from the Dendrophylliidae family.

Some are NPS some are not (duncans).

1) Dendro from Mr. Coral I got a few months back. There was only three main heads when I got it.



2) Close up shot of the new heads (on one side). There are a total of 8 new heads including the ones from the back side. Daily feeding PM mysis and FM products make these corals grow like crazy.



3) Branching dendro I got from City pets.



4) these are perhaps my favorite dendo. It has deep red corals and the heads are very big compared to others.



5) I got a 36 headed colony of duncans about two weeks ago. Took it almost a week to open but it finally did!



Hope you guys enjoy the pictures! :)

[myjohnson]

lol, yeah.

You know me. If I'm do something, I'm take it all the way. :)

I actually just took some updated pictures of some corals with my new lens.

I'm post them in a bit.

[cichlid1409]

whoa, you just upped the game to a completely new level.

[ssrprelude]

Cool dude

[myjohnson]

Continuous feeding system

So,in a quest to keep more non photosynthetic (NPS) corals I decided that I need a continuous feeding system.

Keeping Tubastrea (sun corals) and Dendrophylia with spot feeding is fine but the next "level" of NPS corals, gorgonians, simply can't be kept "long term" without a continuous infusion of food into the water column.

There are a number delivery systems but all of them are DIY at the moment. No aquarium supply manufacturer have developed a feeding system (yet) because true long term NPS keeping is still in it infancy.

After researching, I decided on the most "simple" system, using a syringe pump to continuously pump a combination of of rotifest and shellfish diet into the water column.

I finally received my pump yesterday and below I have taken some pictures of the very simple plug and play installation process.

1) Packaging was good. But I didn't expect anything different.



2) Both the syringe pump and the syringe set I ordered



3) The syringe, a locking tip, and the delivery line.



4) Installation of that parts were obvious.



5) Finally, mounting the syringe to the pump itself.



The sitting up the digital readings, delivery rate (ml/hour), and diameter of the syringe was straight forward. I just read the "quick installation process" part of the manual and got right to it. I'll give it a complete read later on today.

I still need to get a wine chiller or a mini freg for the pump to keep the food fresh inside the syringe fresh.

That's it for now, I'll update with the final pictures after everything is in it's final placement.

[soymilk]

lol, not everyone is ballin like you paya!

I need a tripod....guess I have to sell more fish.

Haha that's not what I meant. I hand hold with my macro a lot too. Because a lot of times it takes too long to set up the right angle on the tripod. But my back starts hurting after a while. It's a lot easier if you throw the flash on there and shoot a higher f-stop while shooting the flash up. But that gets heavy after a while too.

Gitzo is the goods stuff. I was gonna get one but I settled for a manfrotto.

[cichlid1409]

great pics MJ. gonna have to try and feed mine some nls too.

[madugo]

If u want to do it right and not have to change it later..get urself a gitzo 3 series...that will be good forever and it's a done deal..
Honestly tripod is one of the most important thing in photography...so buying a cheap one is not really a good move...
If gitzo is too much to get start with..look something in the 200 bucks range at least..a good ball head is also important lol

[ssrprelude]

Yeah I got a pretty big sturdy one.

[myjohnson]

Tripod?

[ssrprelude]

come get mine and check it out

[myjohnson]

lol, not everyone is ballin like you playa!

I need a tripod....guess I have to sell more fish.