My Panorama Reef

[glennf]

Sorry, butterflies, as in butterflyfish? He asked about your flagfin angel. Do you mean angelfish? I have a regal angel myself. He hasn’t touched my corals yet, but I’m getting worried…

My mistake i have the trimaculatus and flavisima dwarfangels, they do the same as the butterflies. They swim around and peck on corals.
Because of their small size the were able to swim to section1 which contains al LPS like acan's, lobo's, trachy's and zoanthids i saw them do doing considerable damage to them and the polyps were retracted al the time. I lure then to section2 and placed a unmodified eggcrate inbetween so they can't swim back.
Sps in section 2/3 are just fine. These corals can handle the pecking providing they are abundant and healthy.

 

[glennf]

A while ago i bought a small frag from this pink goniopora w.yellow centre. Now i manage to let it flourishing and also succesfully propagated it. I spead it out over several systems and observe how it will develop.

 

[glennf]

This coral was given to me by a LFS because it was slowly dying and he intended to throw it in the garbage bin.
After a slow recovery it started to flourish from a dull yellow coral to a colorfull bernardpora with intense orange tentacles and green centre.
I need to frag it soon, because i am out of space.i also need to make frags for the savekeeping of this specie.

 

[glennf]

Coral propagation made easy

 

[glennf]

Some quick shots of the panoramareef, section1

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Some quick shots of the panoramareef, section1

Coral looks amazing!!

 

[Miami Reef]

@glennf

I saw this older video you posted about experimenting with manganese for Goniopora.

What did you conclude? Was manganese helpful?

 

[glennf]

Coral looks amazing!!

Thanks.
Because, i share my personal "wow" moments instantly, i don't use special filterlenses or editing tools. I also prefer daylight over bluewish exposed corals.

The most pictures are under exposing the real beauty of the corals. They don't even resembles the real live experience i get from watching these Fascinating creatures.

 

[glennf]

@glennf

I saw this older video you posted about experimenting with manganese for Goniopora.

What did you conclude? Was manganese helpful?

Yes, it was a valueable experiment.
Before that i had great succes with only Fe+ dosing. After finding the right dosings some more species were sustainably kept.
Nowayday i incorporate Fe and Mn into my daily dosings by means of EZtrace, EZ2Go or by plain Mn+/ Fe+ dosing to keep them available to these specific corals

 

[glennf]

Do we spend time to edit all our pictures afterwards to make them more appealing?

Which one do you think represents the true colors? A, B, C, D, None of All ........

 

[Miami Reef]

Do we spend time to edit all our pictures afterwards to make them more appealing?

Which one do you think represents the true colors? A, B, C, D, None of All ........

I say B?

 

[flagg37]

My vote is A.

 

[dstockwell]

Beautiful tank

 

[glennf]

I say B?

A few critical readers broached the subject that many posted photo looked unnatural and exaggerated and drew the conclusion that it couldn't be otherwise that they must have been post-processed with photoshop or lightroom.
In short, no photos are post-processed because it is a time-consuming and inefficient way of posting. Moreover, it often misrepresents reality.
Here, the problems are tackled differently.
- It starts with getting the most out of the lighting, so that the result (growth and colour) is also satisfactory to the eye.
- Then we set up this lighting for the camera so that it can do something with it directly.
- Because we use a predominantly blue spectrum in marine aquaria, every photo will be blue. That's why we set the white balance correction to 10K Kelvin.
By carrying out the above steps properly, you basically don't have to edit all photos afterwards to get a decent result. This will save you from boring operations and you won't be tempted to overdo things either.
Here you can see what you can achieve with the right lighting, camera setting (2sec) and direct posting(5sec). It doesn't get any more effective than this with post-processing all the photos
Fishes are an indispensable part of our aquarium ecosystem. They are part of it and you want to enjoy the colourful splendour of these fish both live and on camera. That doesn't work under tight blue light. You can also see from the colours of these fish that there has been no messing around with photo editing programmes and filters.
In the first photo, the exposure is set slightly darker on camera. Not excessive but just to reduce the haze/reflection of the lights on the front window.

 

[glennf]

This is the tank january 2023
In the morning when there is more blue light because the white are not on yet

 

[glennf]

A few top down shots from the Panoramareef

 

[Daniel@R2R]

I just gotta say... when I grow up, I wanna be like @glennf!

 

[glennf]

More topdown...

 

[glennf]

The size of some corals are only seen from the top

 

[glennf]

Last week I placed this beautiful suncoral into my panoramareef Section1.
Every night it opens up and I start feeding it mysis and brine.
The trick is to keep them in the dark and slowly train them to open up during the day by shifting the feeding time