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MrV’s acropora collection

Hi, so I have been documenting my collection for a while now but never on this forum. And since a lot of my friends are active members on Reefcentral so I think it would be cool to share some pictures here.

Some normal light shots:
Z’s paradise from Matt
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Rr Dream catcher
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Jf Burning Banana
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Tsa Princess Peach. Man, this one so bright! I can’t even take pic under blue light since it will look unreal![emoji28]
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Ck Fraggle Rock
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Now, some actinic shots. Some people says that blue light shot are not real, not normal.
In my systems, I have blue light for 7 hours whenever daylight only 6 hours, so I think it’s safe to say my corals normally look like that!
In my pictures I always try to mimic what I see in real life.

Tgc Inner core
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One of the coolest acro in this system.[emoji7]
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Jf Griswold
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Bkchem Wetdream. My favorite now!
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My heart drop a beat...
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Amazing

Inviato dal mio iPhone utilizzando Tapatalk

Oh baby! Nice corals!

Nice pictures. Will you tell us a little about your system?

very nice! Yest, please tell us more

Awesome look colors! I know someone is going to ask...so I'll just ask ahead of time. What lighting are you using?

Hi
Lovely corals , can you tell me what camera and lens your using and any helpful settings as your pics are great'
Bill

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Originally Posted by maxwell (Post 25423669)

Hi
Lovely corals , can you tell me what camera and lens your using and any helpful settings as your pics are great'
Bill

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Originally Posted by Reefpuck (Post 25422137)

Awesome look colors! I know someone is going to ask...so I'll just ask ahead of time. What lighting are you using?

Sorry, I still haven’t had the habit of check this forum. It’s quite new to me. [emoji4]

First, I have 2 systems: 45 gallons and 100 gallons. Both using radions with AB+ schedule. And both are Sps tank.
I am in the process of breaking down my 45 gallons to build a grow out (shallow) tank instead.
This is my 45 gallons a month ago, I am breaking down the tank slowly. Cut down a couple colonies at a time to make sure not disturb the tank too much.
But still, the tank is 5 years old. So I expected some casualties.
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I have Nikon D500 with 2 lens: 18-55mm and tamron micro 90mm.
About setting, they are different depending on lighting and lens I use at the time of taking pictures.

Picked up this three pieces last weekend. I have to say, truly unique gems.
This one, it has rainbow polyps plus pink coralline if coloring up correctly.
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I never seen a tenuis that has purple/violet color like this piece. Not saying yellow polyps.
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This one is bright yellow.
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Meanwhile, some frags growing/encrusting nicely. Again, actinic shots.
Wwc Culture Shocker
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RRC Original Jawdropper. 3 polyps, but they face the other way so no polyps on this pic.[emoji28]
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TDF acro
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Please don’t laugh at my Angry Bird. I don’t know why it’s so green instead of blue. ☹️
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RRC Pretty in Pink
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TGC Ball Buster

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RR Lady in Pink. The color shift differently as the frag in my 45 gallons.
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Here is the frag on my 45 gallons
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CG Cherry Bomb. FYI, CG Cherry Bomb is the first and original Cherry Bomb tenuis on the market..

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TGC Megatron. This is not ordinary yellow, this acro has a “blind your eyes if stare too hard” yellow! [emoji28]
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I think your corals are spectacularly healthy and a lot of those frags look like they will be amazing.
Your photography skills equal the beauty of your frags and the super high resolution makes my eyes pop.
You are clearly using a very good photo editing application as well. You clearly know your way around both a camera and a computer AND you have great reefing skills to along with that..
Really really nice!
but I I do have to say that your corals are lacking a certain old fashioned connection to reality..
What I mean by that is, being a person who still uses my and t5 primarily for my lighting, when I look at these led driven pic, I don’t really see them as real..
I know led lighting is the future and I know it is a perfectly good (maybe better) light source for corals, I am just not there yet..
I see corals that look like this under vendor lighting- usually using radion g4 pros. But I often don’t buy from those tanks anymore because I know that when I bring corals home from those tanks I will be disappointed with them..
One day I will go to leds and revel in the colors I’m seeing in your corals but since I still use old fashioned lighting, I can’t get my head around your shots...
I really don’t mean this to be a put down or an insult.. you clearly know what you are doing.. I guess I am getting philosophical about lighting here..
So, in a way your shots have gotten me all existential... and that’s a god thing!!

MrV’s acropora collection

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Originally Posted by reefmutt (Post 25425253)

Thank you. And you are correct about the lighting and “old fashion corals”.
I actually have a tank build on clay-boa for a couple years. My first sps tank, I mostly keep old school corals. And they look better under 20k lighting. Most of them will not pop under blue/actinic lighting (so if you try to shoot them under blue light, they will actually look uglier). However the new trend of corals right now is “corals that pop under blue”.
I think it’s because the way collectors (diver?) collect them in the wild. Before they just dive at day time, using daylight to pick the corals. So any coral that are blue/red/yellow/purple under daylight considered good corals and collected. Now, divers equipped themselves with blue flash light when they collect coral, and under blue light, there is a whole new world opening. You ever think that those rainbow tenuis that people selling for crazy money right now, why they don’t collect them 10 years ago?

About what is realistic, what is not. I have to disagree with the argument that blue light is not realistic. I have 7 hours of blue light on all of my systems, whenever I have only 6 hours of normal light (20k) and most of that time I am not home. So it’s realistic to me, I always see my tank under blue, I always enjoy my corals pop like that. One day I visited a reefer that have 14k metal halide in his tank and I had to say: “man, your tank look unrealistic. I rarely see a reef tank look like that”
End of the day, if the corals look good under blue/acrinic light, then why don’t why just simply enjoy them under blue light? If a girl look beautiful under markups, I never bother to see how she look without markups.[emoji4]
Those pictures you see above are what I see in my tank, every day.

Proving that I do have old school corals, [emoji4]
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Your tanks/corals look amazing, really interested in your parameters & if you dose anything extra... how many fish do you have?

Also, love the analogy about the girls & make-up! LOL

Well that was a kick azz response lol [emoji363]

Good lord, where did you get all of these? Any frag packs in the works? I’d buy some frag futures contracts from you!

Been a huge fan and follower of you on R-2-R and FB mate and I absolutely adore your tank and the colours you pull!! Are you using g3's or g4's?? I'm otssing up between saving for g4's or getting g3's at a solid price to go with a MH lol

Wow great tank and colorful corals, can wait to see these multicolored colors turn into colonies!

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MrV’s acropora collection

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Originally Posted by Wrangy (Post 25426818)

Thank you!
I have g3 +t5s on one of my system and g4s alone on one. I honestly like the g3s+t5s much more than t5s alone. I am thinking of add more t5s to the set up.

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Originally Posted by Stickboy97 (Post 25425653)

Your tanks/corals look amazing, really interested in your parameters & if you dose anything extra... how many fish do you have?

Also, love the analogy about the girls & make-up! LOL

I have two systems, 45 gallons and 100 gallons.
Both working on the same concept: keep everything as simple as possible. Only test for Alk. One or twice a week, shooting for 8~9dkh range. And adjust Cal Dosing according to the alk.
For filtration, Both Systems relies on skimmer, chaeto and marinepure. No carbon dosing or gfo (against my philosophy of keep things simple)
I also don’t test for nutrients (po4&no3) or other factors.
I dose RedSea ABCD for trace elements. And that’s the only thing I dose.
About fish, I have a lot, and feed a lot too. Also feed corals using reefroid.
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The 100 gallons was just started 7 months ago so mostly frags.
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Today:
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It’s a little messy since I try to figure out which acros will have a permanent place on the scape. That’s the reason why they are on the plug instead of glued down to my tock scape.

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Originally Posted by Softhammer (Post 25426419)

Good lord, where did you get all of these? Any frag packs in the works? I’d buy some frag futures contracts from you!

Save my contact, let me know if you need anything! [emoji6]

I love the scaping.
What type of rock did you use?

The new tank is looking gorgeous mate!! Can't wait to see it in another couple of months! How much of an improvement do you find the G4's to be over the G3's?? Seeing as you have both

I am in love with your tanks and corals