New 33 Gallon Reef Pics *image intensive*

[Diana]

These are some pics of my new 33 gallon "reef" tank. I havent had a chance to add many new corals. The tank is a hybrid of my 5.5 gallon nano-reef and a 25 gallon reef from Raf's *cough* ex *cough*. This tank (although it has more light than my 20 gallon) will probebly stay mainly a soft-coral tank. Oh.... and I cant stop playing with my camera. :mrgreen:

Heres some pickies!

Full tank shot:

Full tank shot with only actinic lights on:

Red mushroom coral:

Red mushroom under actinics :

Tube anenome (cant get the colors to show... very bright orange):

Green Star Polyps (hard to shoot they move too much in the current):

Blue mushroom coral:

Ocellaris clownfish (really hard to shoot b/c they move constantly... but I thought these two shots were neat even though they are out of focus):

Green Clown goby:

Thats all folks!

:twisted:
-Diana

 

[Anonymous]

Diana - Very nice tank, I like the arc in the rockwork.

 

[Algae Blenny]

beatiful tank

~bob

 

[MeMo1]

hi these are awesome shots can you tell your lightining equipment and which camera are you using ?

thanks...

 

[jt481]

Very nice, love the reefscape and the plants.
Excellent photos. Is this a 33 long which is 48" in length?

 

[Diana]

Sorry forgot to mention the cam... its a Nikon D70 DSLR with a Nikkor f2.8D 60mm macro lens.

No the tank is a standard 33 gallon... 36" long. My lens requires me to go quite far away from the tank to take a pic... so it ended up looking a little warped. hehe


Thanks
-Diana

 

[SnowManSnow]

great looking tank. keep tabs on those shrooms or you may end up with a shroom tank hehe

looks great!

B

 

[MeMo1]

thanks for the camera but still waiting the lightining equipment

 

[Anonymous]

Beautiful tank and pictures.

Makes me want a Nikon DSLR.

Louey

 

[Diana]

Thanks!

Oops forgot the lighting equipment too! *duh*

Its a 192 watt Coralife Aqualight PC (2x96watt). Its perfect for all the softies I have in there... which will probebly be the extent of its coral occupants. I do have a montipora in my 20 gallon that is doing great though


-Diana

 

[MeMo1]

thaks

 

[moses13]

That's one of the best, most natural looking aquascapes I've seen! Uncluttered and open, nice use of macros as well. Reminds me of how a really good bonsai represents a full grown, aged tree.

 

[NKT]

Absolutely gorgeous tank and pics! And I agree with what snow said Keep an eye on those shrooms...hehe.

 

[asonitez]

what are the little plants? are they sea weed? or fake?

 

[ibanezgfx]

do you have a bigger version of that first one?

 

[Diana]

The 'plants' are Halimeda, a calcareous macro algae.

I could do some rooting around for a larger full-tank pic, but usually I'd have to take the quality down on the image in order to allow for a bigger pic.... since photobucket loves to resize pics that are too big.

This tank is no longer up and running, since I have combined most of my tanks into a 90 gallon. Wow, it sure was nice though! And you guys were right (of course) my mushies really did take over the tank! So did the Halimeda...

-Diana

www.aquaticescapes.ca

 

[jollylager]

Woah! I am getting actinic lights tomorrow! :!: