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Save the date for the June Meeting, it will be at my house on 6/28. I will have the bio up when I can get the creative juices flowing (wine) and an RSVP page up as soon as the tech gods on here grant me one.
Relatively recent convert to tropic marin as well, I buy it by the bag now. I loved Salinity by seachem, but it takes forever to mix clear and left a terrible residue on the inside of the mixing container.
George, they are not big enough to cover a whole a DLSR lens. However, you can buy these gels on amazon which are much bigger and will easily fit over the camera. I ordered 2 through amazong so my next move will be to cut one down and see how it looks with my DSLR. The problem with amazon, is...
They are small only like an inch or so squared so they are just over the camera lens. There are like8 different color gels so I took pics with all of them and picked the three I liked the best. I would assume under different lighting different gels would work better but I did not try it yet with...
Since we love to share photos of our fish and corals, it can always be frustrating when we can't get a good picture of something we love. Lighting and cameras can obviously change the look of a coral very quickly and no matter how good you are at photoshop can't bring it back to normal. I have...
First off, moved this to DBTC.
Second, I think that it is awesome you are doing this and just wanted to give you a kudos. I will have to see if Nikki and I are around that day and bring some bourbon in tow.
Depends on what you have in there and the duration of the temp spike. Certain corals are much more sensitive to it, and it can affect fish. 85 is generally considered the top end of where you want to be, over that and you are getting into trouble.
A fan blowing over your sump or display will drop the temp a few degrees quickly and efficiently. The method is evaporative cooling, so just make sure you have extra ATO water on hand.
You can try and pull him and put him in timeout for a while but that is not a guarantee. Is he physically harming the wrasse or just chasing? Is the wrasse still eating?