SPS Only - No Rock and No Sand

[Basenji]

Good work, and brilliant results

For what it's worth, I much prefer the colour balance in the last 7 photos on the series. Your coral colours are beautiful. They don't need to be exagerated by cranking up the saturation.

[CUNAReefer]

Thank you for all of the kind comments everyone. The photos were taken under two different types of lighting. The first are actinic only and the second are the daylight shots. I use a grey card for white balance. I think I may have used auto correct on some of the day light shots, but if I remember correctly, the actinic shots are raw images. I'm very new to photography and still learning the basics. If you want, you can give me some tips and I can take some new photos for you. Just let me know what coral you would like to see and how to set the camera.

Warmest Regards,
James

[Jaguar]

FAN*TABULOUS! Completely awesome! How long have you had this system up and running? I reckon take a video! Did I mention gorgeous tank!!

[jayellul]

damn this will look cool if your gonna let it grow right out?

Love it :-)

[CUNAReefer]

Hi Jaguar and Jayellul,

Hope all is well!

Yes, I am letting it grow out. I spent yesterday building out a new section in my sump for all of the montis and smaller pieces. Now I can add another rack and spread out some of the larger pieces so they have even more room to grow. With that said, there are a couple lucky reefers who have received some frags from me, but I do not sell that often. It helps subsidize the cost of the salt, electricity, and most of all, the ZEO.

I'm working on a video for you this morning. I Have a Canon Rebel T2i, and am limited by its video capabilities, but I should be able to have something nice for you.

Quick Edit: I completely forgot to say that after removing my monti frag rack, my pygmy angel had no where to sleep. I broke down and added a piece of rock that I've had in a bucket for over a year. Not sure if I need to change the title of my thread now.

Warmest Regards,
James

[CUNAReefer]

Links to the videos. For some reason, I was not able to embed the video.

http://youtu.be/uI9bZovDXvk

http://youtu.be/T4FdMRw0QuE

[priscacara]

So much color, looks awesome!

[WIGARUS]

The colours look amazing

[StripestheEel]

Stunning. Any bioload from fish in this system or purely sps

[jason angel]

Looking great. Im also running a SPS, no sand, but have around 8kgs of branchy rock just support the SPS off the bottom, to prevent detritus build up.
Your colors are great. I too am currently researching the pros and cons of target feeding SPS vs not.
Are you running any macro? as a refugium will generally provide all the larvae and particulate food matter that SPS will require, Or does the growth of macro conflict with your zeovit program?
What kind of skimmer are you running aswell? Do you use balling method (dosing pumps), or CaRx?
Do you test for trace elements, (other than potassium) and also one more question... do you supplement any trace elements besides alk/ca?

Stunning. Any bioload from fish in this system or purely sps

I completely forgot to say that after removing my monti frag rack, my pygmy angel had no where to sleep. I broke down and added a piece of rock that I've had in a bucket for over a year. Not sure if I need to change the title of my thread now.

Matt I think the first post also mentions a wrasse..... not to mention the videos which clearly have fish in them.