The Journey Continues - Mike & Terry's 280g Reef Savvy

[Tgrove]

what a beautiful tank. Sorry if this was covered already, would like to know more about your camera rig, and any tricks you have learned when taking those awesome shots of your fish.

 

[ws6kid]

The tank and setup look amazing.

 

[Mike&Terry]

what a beautiful tank. Sorry if this was covered already, would like to know more about your camera rig, and any tricks you have learned when taking those awesome shots of your fish.

@Tgrove Thank You for the kind words. My current camera is a Nikon D810 (upgraded from a Nikon D300s that I had for several years). I "play" with various lenses, but the Nikkor 105mm macro and Nikkor 28-70mm zoom tend to be my "go to" lenses for fish photography. I don't really have any "secrets" per se, but I do shoot in manual mode. Fish photography takes a lot of patience and practice (at least it has for me) .

 

[Mike&Terry]

The tank and setup look amazing.

Thank You @ws6kid !

 

[Mike&Terry]

Small update on the leopard wrasse drama. We took down the pictures Thursday evening and the mirror came down yesterday (Friday) afternoon. The M. bipartitus male is finally ignoring the M. choati - Success!

Getting ready to head over to Deep End Aquariums and Ponds to pick up some new fish babies (Paracheilinus octotainea)

 

[Masedaddy]

Awesome! So glad the wrasses are getting along again.

 

[prsnlty]

Awesome! So glad the wrasses are getting along again.

+1, this is terrific news!

 

[29102016]

We would love to see a new full tank shot!! Love your dedication to the hobby [emoji106]

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Getting ready to head over to Deep End Aquariums and Ponds to pick up some new fish babies (Paracheilinus octotainea)

Any news on the new addition?

 

[Mike&Terry]

Awesome! So glad the wrasses are getting along again.

+1, this is terrific news!

Thankfully, the M. bipartitus is continuing to ignore the M. chaoti...

We would love to see a new full tank shot!! Love your dedication to the hobby [emoji106]

Thank You! We'll work on getting an updated FTS soon!

Any news on the new addition?

They, along with a C. earlei male were just moved to the big tank yesterday - pics to follow soon!

 

[Mike&Terry]

As promised, here's a pic of the babes hanging out in the acclimation box: (2) Eightline flasher wrasses and (1) C. earlei. A big Thank You to Deep End Aquariums & Ponds for hooking us up with the flasher wrasses!


G. Semifasciatus


C. rubrisquamis


Paracanthurus hepatus (yellow belly variant)


Z. desjardini with G. semifasciatus


And how about a couple of coral shots...


A. austera


A. secale


Blastomussa wellsi

 

[Mike&Terry]

Our ORA Pearlberry is finally coloring back up after completely bleaching out two weeks before the move to the new Reef Savvy.






And last, but not least, we couldn't resist posting another pic of "Vin"...

 

[tristanfish]

Our ORA Pearlberry is finally coloring back up after completely bleaching out two weeks before the move to the new Reef Savvy.






And last, but not least, we couldn't resist posting another pic of "Vin"...

Phenonal body of work... amazing to see

 

[Chrisfish]

Beautiful fish, corals and awesome pictures!!

 

[Mike&Terry]

Phenonal body of work... amazing to see

Beautiful fish, corals and awesome pictures!!

Thank You Tristan and Chris!

 

[29102016]

Absolutely stunning!!!!

 

[Mike&Terry]

Absolutely stunning!!!!

Thank You so much!

 

[nelson69]

Mike and terry what settings are you running on your AI??

 

[Mike&Terry]

Mike and terry what settings are you running on your AI??

Here are the Neptune Apex profiles we setup for our AI Hydra Fiftytwo's:

 

[revhtree]

Wow amazing photos of amazing fish! Reefing season is going to be awesome! Ha!