View Full Version : One Year on!! Picture overload
Catpicklesdog
05-31-2008, 10:35 AM
On May 31st 2007, I took delivery of this:
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A year later it looks like this:
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A few piccies of the inhabitants:
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Rbishop
05-31-2008, 11:10 AM
Absolutely awesome! Great work!
AquatiCreations
05-31-2008, 11:12 AM
Nice looking tank!
AnnetteG
05-31-2008, 11:34 AM
gorgeous!
emptywallet
05-31-2008, 11:36 AM
is that a pink tailed trigger in your reef tank?
Catpicklesdog
05-31-2008, 1:00 PM
Well spotted!! After a lot of research and a couple of months watching the guy at my LFS I decided to risk it. So far so good!
It was qute scary to watch my cleaner shrimp go straigt over to him and try and clean him when he first went in. A tense moment but I still have 2 cleaner shrimps 3 days later!
Very nice, CPD!!! Your tank is looking great! I really like your lemark angel.
OgreMkV
05-31-2008, 3:29 PM
That's awesome and a worthy goal.
FeatherDuster
05-31-2008, 3:53 PM
Beautiful tank! Thats a lot of progress in only a year. And everything looks so happy.
got2envy
05-31-2008, 4:22 PM
Very Nice tank and happy anniversary! :D I love the trigger
strangerdejavu
05-31-2008, 5:31 PM
Oh, I'm glad you got the trigger. Keep us posted on how he does!
The tank looks great!
Catpicklesdog
05-31-2008, 6:18 PM
Thanks everybody. The LM Blenny, Maroon clown, Yellow Tang, Cleaner wrasse and Bangaii Cardinals have all been with me for at least 2.5 yrs, some of them nearly 5!!! A lot of the rock was transferred over from my last tank which was 3 yrs old so I had a good and established start.
I'm now going to sit back and watch everything grow and probably won't add anything else (hence why I now have a "pond" link!!!)
Reefscape
06-01-2008, 2:26 PM
Absolutly stunning hunni.....very impressed...a very natural looking reef...Successfull too..
saltydunc
06-01-2008, 3:15 PM
very nice....love the pinktail trigger hope it works out.....:)
Catpicklesdog
06-01-2008, 5:56 PM
Forgot I had this. This is a picture of my Duncan coral when it was for sale on a certain auction website. I was a bit doubtful about getting it but the price was good so I thought I'd give it a go (mine is the one on the right - the double headed one):
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This is how it looks now! It has a total of nine new heads so far........
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Almondsaz
06-01-2008, 6:07 PM
CPD...Happy Anniversary on your tank! Looks really beautiful. What an amazing amount of growth and it all looks perfectly placed. The lawnmower blenny looks so omnious in his pic. Can't wait to see the 2nd anniversary set of pics. Thanks for sharing.
SpockthePuffer
06-01-2008, 8:06 PM
Beautiful tank! At first I was shocked at how great it looked after a year but then I read that you moved stuff from another tank, made me feel not so bad that my tank is turning 1 soon and it still looks terrible, lol.
Its awesome that you have a trigger in your reef tank, keep us updated on him :)
wildman117
06-01-2008, 8:16 PM
really nice pics
what is the last fish in the first set of pics? looks awesome
Catpicklesdog
06-02-2008, 4:43 AM
really nice pics
what is the last fish in the first set of pics? looks awesome
He's a Lawnmower Blenny. I'd turned the flash off the camera but apart from that have no idea ho I got that shot, I was quite pleased with the eeriness of it:grinyes:
Here he (Grumpy) is looking more angelic:Angel:
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This is my favourite photo of him!
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Digital
06-02-2008, 4:44 AM
Outstanding! Love it!
saltydunc
06-02-2008, 4:28 PM
great pic of the blenny
LiveOutLoud
06-02-2008, 5:14 PM
Wow great looking tank. Just wondering what type of camera do you use?
Catpicklesdog
06-02-2008, 5:20 PM
Thanks for the compliments everyone.
It's a Fujifilm Finepix S5700. It probably does take a good shot, it's me that doesn't:grinyes:
The photo of the Lawnmower Blenny was taken with my old camera (Nikon) but I treated myself to the new one when I won photo of the month:headbang2:
canucksfan1
06-02-2008, 5:22 PM
Tanks like that are the reason i just started my saltwater tank, although only a 20 gallon soon i will be converting my 55 i think
Catpicklesdog
06-02-2008, 5:24 PM
Honestly - the bigger the better! I started with a 30 gal, 4 months later upgraded to a 60gal and now I'm on this one (182gal)! The bigger the tank the easier it is to maintain.
salty420
06-02-2008, 9:37 PM
the tank looks amazing after only 1 year cpd... very very impressive indeed!
mcsassy
06-02-2008, 9:59 PM
Forgot I had this. This is a picture of my Duncan coral when it was for sale on a certain auction website. I was a bit doubtful about getting it but the price was good so I thought I'd give it a go (mine is the one on the right - the double headed one):
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This is how it looks now! It has a total of nine new heads so far........
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What kind of light is the first picture? It looks really cool under that light. What a difference...what kind of lights do you have on your tank?
marinemad
06-03-2008, 4:54 AM
great tank! i hope in a year my 225g looks as good! love your blenny i got one too he called mr stig!
Catpicklesdog
06-03-2008, 5:12 AM
What kind of light is the first picture? It looks really cool under that light. What a difference...what kind of lights do you have on your tank?
I have 2 x 250 MH Giesemann System 260. The first photo is what the seller used so I have no idea what lighting he had it under.
j_chicago
06-03-2008, 5:21 PM
God I really want my tank set-up now. Looks awesome! Congrats!