What Did Santa Bring For your Tank? Page 15 is the start of 2018

[Mini Coop]

I have the cannon 70D and I am trying for figure out the best lens for close ups.

I like my 50 mm 1.8.

 

[Mini Coop]

just ... WoW... amazing fish

What kind of fish is this? Beautiful.

 

[Frop]

That gift would've topped everyone's.

As long as it stayed alive..

 

[Frop]

And then I see this was started in 2015 oh well I'll keep reading

 

[jsker]

I like my 50 mm 1.8.

Thank you

 

[jsker]

My wife and I did a low budget exchange (basically $20). So no fish tank stuff.

But the petstore owner did a favor and unlocked his store on Christmas for me (he was already there doing some upkeep for about 1-2hours). I got some water and Frags (basically 12-13 gallon system needed RO really badly or else my tank pump would've been sucking air today [and I cant go to any stores today even if they were open]).

That is very cool of the owner. Nother like customer service

 

[jsker]

My hubby got me a couple more conch snails, 3 peppermint shrimp, and a reef octopus 152-s!!! Mr. anti-fish tank is now kind of getting into all of this!!! Now - if only I could figure out exactly how high the bubbles are supposed to be so it will run correctly....

Good job and turning him to the reef side

 

[cmcoker]

Got a tub of Thermomorph to work on my aqua scape for the new build, and Aquarium Corals by Borneman. Plus some Amazon gift cards that will most likely (definitely) be spent on stuff for my build in progress. Yay!

 

[SamsReef]

Due to this thread I got thinking what to do for my ocean friends...I fed them twice yesterday. They seemed to have really liked that

 

[Baby Ray]

Well, with the money I got for christmas I bought myself a brand new 24" 4 bulb ATI T5 fixture with 4 new ATI bulbs and I am super excited!!!!

 

[Rick.45cal]

@jsker I can't bring myself to even mess with the T2i. The 100mm EF Macro takes some seriously nice photos. It's definitely a keeper. I think it is a superior lens to the 65mm EF-S Macro.

Man the full frame CMOS sensor in the 6D body REALLY takes some nice photos. I've mostly just played at this point, but I can tell that it's going to be great camera.

 

[jsker]

@jsker I can't bring myself to even mess with the T2i. The 100mm EF Macro takes some seriously nice photos. It's definitely a keeper. I think it is a superior lens to the 65mm EF-S Macro.

Man the full frame CMOS sensor in the 6D body REALLY takes some nice photos. I've mostly just played at this point, but I can tell that it's going to be great camera.

There are two 100mm EF Macro link

 

[Rick.45cal]

I have the IS USM version. This one: https://shop.usa.canon.com/shop/en/catalog/ef-100mm-f-28l-macro-is-usm

Pretty sure the only difference between the two is the IS version has image stabilization. Whether that's something you need or not is probably personal preferrence. I will probably shoot some portraits with it so it may come in handy. Tank shots will likely all be from a tripod so that won't matter as much.

I will mention that when viewing through the viewfinder this lens has a very narrow depth of field, and takes a little getting used to. Not as forgiving as the 65mm EF-S lens. But once I figured that out, it takes some seriously sharp photos with some strong Bokeh effects. Hope this helps a little

 

[erinmegan85]

Santa was very good to my tanks this year.

He delivered this skimmer to me a few days early because the pump on my other one bit the dust:


I also got a new dual reactor for the big tank:


Got some vibrant too:


I'm also in the the process of getting everything to switch everything from Biocube to the abyss tank that I got a few months ago. Got my Nanobox light:

https://flic.kr/p/QD1j9z
Also got the IM desktop skimmer for the tank:

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Got tons of cool stuff from my secret santa, and lots of money "for fish stuff" from my fam.

 

[underwaterdan]

Santa brought me a bunch of new seahorses!!! Here's the new fry!

More details/pics in this thread

 

[meir]

Did not ask for anything. I just gave. That's bc my tank is not set up. But like most of u I like to buy things for my hobby rather than have someone buy it for me. For One only we know what we really want and dang we can be some picky f***KS lol. Did tell the wife though when it's up and running Corals and more corals..

And then the wife buys a bunch of xenia, gsp, cloves, and Kenya trees cuz she thought they was pretty and she loves u[emoji6]

 

[lou dog420]

Woke up to a dead kole tang. Santa hates me!!

 

[jsker]

Being posting this thread for the last couple of years and I am going to keep it going.

Merry Christmas 2017

 

[Daltrey]

Santa got me a Red Sea Reefer 750xxl!