Oxy's RSM250
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Oxylebius
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Yeah, you won't see many posts from me on the technical side of things unless I have had first hand experience with some product, I will instead direct you to some other thread or article on the subject. I will most likely post on anything biological/chemical/ecological instead. Luckily this forum has many folks who have knowledge in various aspects of keeping tanks, you will soon learn who you can trust and who you can turn to for knowledge on certain topics/items/species/etc.
Oxylebius
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Thanks for the compliment on my photos. My pics are hit and miss. Sometimes I have good ones and other times they are blurry and off color. I can take okay photos close up, but the full tank shots all turn out pretty bad. I've been using three different camera's (cell phone, cannon powershot sx260hs, and a 2002 cannon eos rebel xt that has two different lens, one lens is a tamron 70-300mm lens and the other lens is a cannon efs18-55mm lens).
That particular pic was using the Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, pretty good for a 12 year old camera! Plus, it looks like there is some natural light coming in the tank for that particular shot, always nice when you don't have to fight the blue color in the pictures.
That gsp is not on a rock. It is a big pile of gsp just sitting on the sand bed. I don't allow it to touch any rocks that surround it.
That particular pic was using the Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT, pretty good for a 12 year old camera! Plus, it looks like there is some natural light coming in the tank for that particular shot, always nice when you don't have to fight the blue color in the pictures.
That gsp is not on a rock. It is a big pile of gsp just sitting on the sand bed. I don't allow it to touch any rocks that surround it.
Wolffman64
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Congratulations on the TOTM, very well deserved!!
Loved the pic sequence of the clowns, really cool!
Loved the pic sequence of the clowns, really cool!
pgrtgunner
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What type of lighting are you using, so the correct colors of the corals come out?
Beautiful tank by the way.
Beautiful tank by the way.
Oxylebius
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Thanks Choff. The coral beauty has started to get HLLE over the past couple of months, above the eyes. I've been watching it develop. Once I noticed it I bought some selcon and it has been eating nori soaked in selcon almost daily. I need to find a better quality carbon for the tank, one that doesn't have too many fine particles. I rinse the carbon before I put it in the tank, always have, but looks like it hasn't helped. Poor fish. It is active and eats w/o issue. Two scientific studies have come to the same conclusion on what causes it:
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/activated-carbon-affirmed-as-causative-agent-for-hlle-disease
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blo...ted-in-inducing-head-and-lateral-line-erosion
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/activated-carbon-hlle-smoking-gun-found
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08997659.2011.608608#.VGvKG8kSbBY
I've been watching it develop. Once I noticed it I bought some selcon and it has been eating nori soaked in selcon almost daily. I need to find a better quality carbon for the tank, one that doesn't have too many fine particles. I rinse the carbon before I put it in the tank, always have, but looks like it hasn't helped. Poor fish. It is active and eats w/o issue. Two scientific studies have come to the same conclusion on what causes it: http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/activated-carbon-affirmed-as-causative-agent-for-hlle-disease
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blo...ted-in-inducing-head-and-lateral-line-erosion
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/activated-carbon-hlle-smoking-gun-found
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08997659.2011.608608#.VGvKG8kSbBY
Thanks Choff. The coral beauty has started to get HLLE over the past couple of months, above the eyes.
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/activated-carbon-affirmed-as-causative-agent-for-hlle-disease
http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blo...ted-in-inducing-head-and-lateral-line-erosion
http://www.coralmagazine-us.com/content/activated-carbon-hlle-smoking-gun-found
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08997659.2011.608608#.VGvKG8kSbBY
Sounds pretty scary.
Tom
Oxylebius
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Thanks. It is curable. It takes months up to a year to cure w/lots of vitamins. Selcon is great, even though it messes with the skimmer right after it enters the tank, all the fish love it. Even fish who never eat nori will go for it soaked in selcon (my wrasse and clownfish). And selcon doesn't bother the corals, if anything it adds extra elements/vitamins to the tank that the corals may also take it.
Unfortunately, I won't be doing much with the tank but minimal maintenance from now on, I'm going in for an MRI on my shoulder, so the tank may end up suffering a little bit. The fish are easy to feed, so no worries there, but water changes are an issue......
Unfortunately, I won't be doing much with the tank but minimal maintenance from now on, I'm going in for an MRI on my shoulder, so the tank may end up suffering a little bit. The fish are easy to feed, so no worries there, but water changes are an issue......
best of luck with your shoulder !
Oxylebius
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Urgh! In so much pain! So, here is my little story and complaint for the moment...I was referred by my doctor to get a MRI. So, I had the MRI done on shoulder and they handed me a disc w/my images and sent me on my way w/o diagnosis :lookaroun. The receptionist said that I need to followup with my doctor, so then I called my doctors office and talked to the receptionist, who assured me that my doctor would be able to read the images and provide a diagnosis, so made an apt, took more time off work, paid another co-pay and my doctor prefaces our conversation with that she doesn't know how to read MRI images, but then goes on to tell me what she thinks is wrong with my shoulder! So, with non-conclusive info I am now waiting to see a Orthopedic doctor. Which they should have referred me to in the first place w/o wasting my time and $$. :evileye: Wish they had laid out the process that I needed to go through ahead of time. I did ask about risks, that I hadn't had a MRI before and I asked what I should be aware of, this would have been a good time for my doctor to explain the process to me and what followup I needed to know about. :closed: I want expectations laid out ahead of time.
Since they gave me a copy of images on a disc, I looked them over and compared them to what I could find online (what arthritis, liquid in joint, edema, muscle tears, etc. look like and what a normal healthy shoulder is supposed to look like)..... based on what I could see and what my doctor thinks is wrong, it looks like maybe a little arthritis and water in shoulder joint... not really sure about tears, but possibly. And I'm loosing range of motion FAST in the last couple of weeks... can't clean the tank well.h: I'm on pain killers, but they really aren't working and I'm getting really weepy, lol, always do when in pain, I just can't handle it. :tears:
At this rate, I think the coral beauty will heal up faster then I will
Since they gave me a copy of images on a disc, I looked them over and compared them to what I could find online (what arthritis, liquid in joint, edema, muscle tears, etc. look like and what a normal healthy shoulder is supposed to look like)..... based on what I could see and what my doctor thinks is wrong, it looks like maybe a little arthritis and water in shoulder joint... not really sure about tears, but possibly. And I'm loosing range of motion FAST in the last couple of weeks... can't clean the tank well.
h: I'm on pain killers, but they really aren't working and I'm getting really weepy, lol, always do when in pain, I just can't handle it. :tears:At this rate, I think the coral beauty will heal up faster then I will
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