wild SPS corals, Marshall Islands - Page 6

Cgreene · 06/21/2011, 07:40 PM

Id like to see an update on what you have selected to stock your tank with!

nemokeeper · 06/21/2011, 07:54 PM

i wish!!!!!!!!!!!!

bigsink · 06/22/2011, 01:16 PM

Great thread. Was there in 1994 and have been trying to get back for years.

MerDoX · 06/22/2011, 02:58 PM

Great pics. Subscribed.

ziyaadb · 06/22/2011, 03:09 PM

subscribed

r-balljunkie · 06/22/2011, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bigsink

Great thread. Was there in 1994 and have been trying to get back for years.

Bigsink, retreads welcome back, you know that.

Sorry for the lack of updates. My wife has been bogarting the weekends with her deep sea fishing. Father's day and other activities have put a damper on diving, but I plan on being in the water this weekend. still kinda spooked after my swimming in 'pool' with the shark. I'm gonna pick a different pool next time.

No new corals

made some small system tweaks, added an APEX lite controller. the trusty ACjr served me well, but time for the new. Big shout out to TB aquatics for shipping to APO. i hate when people price jack you on the shipping.

lowered the water level in the tank by dremeling the teeth slots lower. easier to clean the glass now.

I also ordered a set of Maxspect Mazarra S x 3 LED's. really excited about getting the new lighting next month. The tank has really stabilized, and all the old survivors, new additions are doing well. im going to start the transition back to synthetic salt next week.

got a new flash unit for my underwater camera, since the ocean claimed my difusser on the factory flash, and olympus wants close to 60 bux for a stupid piece of opaque plastic.

Once again you guys get to be victimized by my shoddy photog skills.

hope to have some new reef porn for you guys soon!!

GL

C

Cgreene · 06/22/2011, 07:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by r-balljunkie

Bigsink, retreads welcome back, you know that.

Sorry for the lack of updates. My wife has been bogarting the weekends with her deep sea fishing. Father's day and other activities have put a damper on diving, but I plan on being in the water this weekend. still kinda spooked after my swimming in 'pool' with the shark. I'm gonna pick a different pool next time.

No new corals

made some small system tweaks, added an APEX lite controller. the trusty ACjr served me well, but time for the new. Big shout out to TB aquatics for shipping to APO. i hate when people price jack you on the shipping.

lowered the water level in the tank by dremeling the teeth slots lower. easier to clean the glass now.

I also ordered a set of Maxspect Mazarra S x 3 LED's. really excited about getting the new lighting next month. The tank has really stabilized, and all the old survivors, new additions are doing well. im going to start the transition back to synthetic salt next week.

got a new flash unit for my underwater camera, since the ocean claimed my difusser on the factory flash, and olympus wants close to 60 bux for a stupid piece of opaque plastic.

Once again you guys get to be victimized by my shoddy photog skills.

hope to have some new reef porn for you guys soon!!

GL

C

Scared of a black tip reef shark? lol. 3 years ago, I went on a Blackbeards Dive trip in the Bahamas. Went on a shark feeding dive. 13 Black tip reef sharks came out to feast. Scariest thing I've done in my life!!

Not to hijack your thread but here are some pics of my experience with black tips.

I would say the scariest part was seeing the big shadows swimming by under the boat and having to jump off the boat into the water. We swam around the pit, and descended to 55 ft. Sat on our knees with our backs to a 10 ft tall reef while the divemasters hooked up the pully as you can see in the pic about.

Always enjoy reading your thread.

Casey

markie mark · 06/25/2011, 10:03 PM

R-balljunkie,can you please go diving with your camera please...and then hook the camera to the computer and upload pics on to reef central...lol

dannytom99 · 06/25/2011, 11:04 PM

great thread, love the pics

Banjo · 06/26/2011, 12:30 AM

Awesome thread. I'm so jealous.

r-balljunkie · 06/26/2011, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cgreene

Scared of a black tip reef shark? lol. 3 years ago, I went on a Blackbeards Dive trip in the Bahamas. Went on a shark feeding dive. 13 Black tip reef sharks came out to feast. Scariest thing I've done in my life!!

Not to hijack your thread but here are some pics of my experience with black tips.

I would say the scariest part was seeing the big shadows swimming by under the boat and having to jump off the boat into the water. We swam around the pit, and descended to 55 ft. Sat on our knees with our backs to a 10 ft tall reef while the divemasters hooked up the pully as you can see in the pic about.

Always enjoy reading your thread.

Casey

i dont mind sharks out in the open, but when you got one trapped in a pool at low tide, in what equates to a bath tub, no good

nice pics. no problem on the threadjack, more the merrier.

r-balljunkie · 06/26/2011, 01:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by markie mark

R-balljunkie,can you please go diving with your camera please...and then hook the camera to the computer and upload pics on to reef central...lol

MM.

I feel sooo cheap, all you guys want me for is my pics

managed to get in the water today, one dive only at the coral junkyard. I tried to take some pictures to give an idea of the scale and mass of this coral head. I've dived this spot at least 10 times, and we have not covered the entire place. it keeps going and going. we thought we would get back to the same place we found the zoa's, no such luck. once your down there, it all blends in. you don't want to spend 20 minutes looking for something when you only have 35 minutes or so bottom time in the area.
still working out the kinks with the new flash. it seems I had a tendency of blasting too much light on the closeups, need to work on toning it down a bit
still our favorite walk in dive for the diversity we get to experience.

i hate to make analogies to movies, but today we felt like we were on Pandora, underwater version, from the movie avatar. I cannot even start to describe some of the livestock or layout of the formations we seen. pure eyecandy..stuff ive never ever seen before. Some corals kinda cross between flower pots and GBTA's, some funky bubble corals, soft scrolling formations, etc. picked up a few corals for the tank, some nice lobo's and a couple of starfishes.
we still have a couple of air tanks on the back porch, might get another dive in tomorrow.

enjoy the pics

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bryman · 06/26/2011, 02:07 AM

Wow these pics are absolutely incredible! Thanks very much for letting us live vicariously through you!

basser1 · 06/26/2011, 08:46 AM

Truly a reefers' dream come true!

Your pics are amazing and helps remind me why I'm in this hobby!

TruReef · 06/26/2011, 09:43 AM

Love it!!!! Keep um coming.... I dream of having this in my backyard....

Cgreene · 06/26/2011, 10:03 AM

Amazing pictures as always!

Casey

downset · 06/26/2011, 10:34 AM

Blown away by the awesomeness of this.Great pix

chris88 · 06/26/2011, 12:53 PM

Holy crap is awsome down there. thanks for letting us in on all of your discoveries.

markie mark · 06/26/2011, 01:34 PM

Hey,you started this thread..lol...thanks for my weekly fix....pics are amazing..

aniceplace · 06/26/2011, 07:56 PM

The pics with the Idols was amazing; my favorite fish.

Banjo · 06/26/2011, 09:57 PM

Wow! More. Now!

Thairun · 06/26/2011, 10:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by aquak

Amazing! A true paradise.

+100

06/21/2011, 07:40 PM	#126
Cgreene Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Jonesboro, AR Posts: 66	Id like to see an update on what you have selected to stock your tank with! __________________ Current Tank- 120 gal Starphire Glass Display, 40 gal Sump, 160 lbs LR, 6x54w T5's, Closed loop system with Reeflo Barracuda pump, Ca and Kalk Reactors, Carbon Reactor, and Profilux 3 Controller

06/22/2011, 01:16 PM	#128
bigsink Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Long Island Posts: 1,169	Great thread. Was there in 1994 and have been trying to get back for years. __________________ 325g SPS DT, 75g sump, 50g fuge, 50g clown tank. Bubble King Supermarin 250 skimmer. 1 400W Radium and 2 250W Radiums on Galaxy ballasts. 2 72" VHO actinic 03 supplement. Current Tank Info: 500g SPS system

06/26/2011, 02:07 AM	#141
bryman Aquascape Destroyer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Carol Stream, IL Posts: 1,105	Wow these pics are absolutely incredible! Thanks very much for letting us live vicariously through you! __________________ PVITAWA! Current Tank Info: 90G Tech

06/26/2011, 09:43 AM	#143
TruReef Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Jacksonville, FL Posts: 413	Love it!!!! Keep um coming.... I dream of having this in my backyard.... __________________ I'd rather be stranded in a reef tank or fishing Current Tank Info: 90gal mixed reef, RKL, Octo Extreme 200 w/ BB hy-3000s, 2-250mh Radium, 2-110w VHO, 2 Vortech mp40wes, BRS Dual media reactors w/ gfo,gac /40 breeder frag tank full of rock for the 180g - 180gal in the works :)

06/26/2011, 10:03 AM	#144
Cgreene Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Jonesboro, AR Posts: 66	Amazing pictures as always! Casey __________________ Current Tank- 120 gal Starphire Glass Display, 40 gal Sump, 160 lbs LR, 6x54w T5's, Closed loop system with Reeflo Barracuda pump, Ca and Kalk Reactors, Carbon Reactor, and Profilux 3 Controller

06/21/2011, 07:54 PM	#127
nemokeeper Registered Member. Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: nyc Posts: 84	i wish!!!!!!!!!!!!

06/22/2011, 02:58 PM	#129
MerDoX Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: bay area, CA Posts: 126	Great pics. Subscribed.

06/22/2011, 03:09 PM	#130
ziyaadb Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: South Africa - JHB Posts: 753	subscribed

06/25/2011, 10:03 PM	#133
markie mark Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: trussville,al Posts: 184	R-balljunkie,can you please go diving with your camera please...and then hook the camera to the computer and upload pics on to reef central...lol

06/25/2011, 11:04 PM	#134
dannytom99 Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: san antonio Posts: 51	great thread, love the pics

06/26/2011, 12:30 AM	#135
Banjo Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 88	Awesome thread. I'm so jealous.

06/26/2011, 01:54 AM	#138
r-balljunkie Registered Reefer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Pacific Ocean Longitude: 167.6546 deg. Latitude: 8.9995 deg. Posts: 1,626

06/26/2011, 01:55 AM	#139
r-balljunkie Registered Reefer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Pacific Ocean Longitude: 167.6546 deg. Latitude: 8.9995 deg. Posts: 1,626

06/26/2011, 01:56 AM	#140
r-balljunkie Registered Reefer Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: South Pacific Ocean Longitude: 167.6546 deg. Latitude: 8.9995 deg. Posts: 1,626

06/26/2011, 08:46 AM	#142
basser1 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: So. Indiana Posts: 975	Truly a reefers' dream come true! Your pics are amazing and helps remind me why I'm in this hobby!

06/26/2011, 10:34 AM	#145
downset Reef Zen Monster Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Charleston SC Posts: 1,689	Blown away by the awesomeness of this.Great pix

06/26/2011, 12:53 PM	#146
chris88 Registered Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Alberta (canada) Posts: 657	Holy crap is awsome down there. thanks for letting us in on all of your discoveries.

06/26/2011, 01:34 PM	#147
markie mark Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: trussville,al Posts: 184	Hey,you started this thread..lol...thanks for my weekly fix....pics are amazing..

06/26/2011, 07:56 PM	#148
aniceplace Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Dade City, fl Posts: 148	The pics with the Idols was amazing; my favorite fish. __________________ "Feed your head." Current Tank Info: 210 AGA w/4 drains, 110ga sump, Dart return, Lumatek 250-400watt ballast, LumenMax Elite reflectors, Phoenix 14k lamps, 454 VHO's

06/26/2011, 09:57 PM	#149
Banjo Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 88	Wow! More. Now!

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