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I love that bunny! We didn't get our eggs done YET (d'oh). The kids will probably do that tomorrow while we're waiting for family to come. Happy Easter, everyone!
If all you want the lens for is macro shots of your tank, you can go one further and get the manual focus one on ebay. That one can be had for under 300$.
TwinReef has the 150 and takes some nice shots with it, but I think he also has a 105. I think the 105 is a good focal length. That's what I have. When I want it to be a little longer, I put a 1.4TC or extension tubes on it. I have the Nikon, so I can't vouch for the Sigma personally.
That's too cool. We have a piece of frogspawn in our 65 that was dead for a while too. It has new growth coming out of the side of the stalk now also. Crazy. What a survival instinct, huh?
Congrats on sticking it out long enough for the coral to come back!
This topic has been moved to Leathers, Shrooms & Zoos. We'll be stickying it at the top of the Zoo forum to keep it handy.
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LOL. Quite a laundry list, Lithivm!
I've had my share too (though not as many). First was a Canon AE-1. Then came the consumer-slightly-more-than-a-point-n-shoot bunch. I had a few Olys until I went dSLR my recent bout of Nikon. I love my Nikons. The ergonomics are fantastic, everything is...
The good news is that doesn't look like red bug infestation results (usually the only thing you'll see there is diminished PE. The bad news is that it looks more like the result of AEFW. Hopefully that's not the case. I'll be able to see any red bugs when I'm there on Tuesday. AEFW... not so...
Our MJs vibrated allllll the time. A low droaning hum. Quite annoying. Actually unplugged them the first night so we could sleep. Tried as we might we just couldn't get used to them.
Sadly, they'd end up in FOWLRs and slowly starve to death. But how is that different from what they're doing when they pull them off of the reef and "dispose" (AKA kill) of them?
Maybe if they get popular enough we can bare the reefs of them. If the "farmers" can make money pulling them from the ocean we may have an answer to the plague. This is one case where that would actually be a good thing.
We have 2 of those mod kits that we pulled from our tank. They vibrated like crazy. I'd be happy to sell you ours if you're interested in going that route.
Personally, I'd get a pair of hydors and call it a day. By the time you spend the money on the maxi and the mod, you may as well own a hydor.