Thought it would be nice to get a post up of Members tanks..  here is mine

LOL ...ok I will tell you MONEY!!!

actually the tank is a 55 gal.  It is my first attempt at a salt tank.  I have had almost zero issues with this tank.  In fact I have had a worse time with FRESH WATER tanks then this one.  I have had it running for about 7 months.  I am not sure really what else to tell you. ...

Tank looks really nice.  I have seen it in person.  It will be nice to see it as the tank of the month for June.  Please be thinking of the person you will pick for T.O.M. July.

"Reefaquarist"

Here is a picture of my 75 gal tank after my Acro crash:

Jeff Hite was kind enough to set me up with a few frags over the weekend.  This is a picture of the Green Slimer he gave me.  It's a good size frag.  Thanks again Jeff!!!

The crash was from a heater that cracked open.  I created a post of what happened under the Corals topic:

http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=6&TopicID=271&PagePosition=1">http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=6&TopicID=271&PagePosition=1

The following picture is big!  The link to it is below. It is the tank as of Nov 2002.

http://www.xmission.com/~ajkochev/images/Tank_Pics/F-N2002.jpg">http://www.xmission.com/~ajkochev/images/Tank_Pics/F-N2002.jpg

Other information at:  http://www.xmission.com/~ajkochev/Aquariums.htm">http://www.xmission.com/~ajkochev/Aquariums.htm

What is wrong with seeing a picture of ones tank, when it is just one, here and there.  I for one think this is an excellent way for members to see each others tanks, interesting pictures, and progress.  When was the last time a picture was posted in the gallery?

John Fletcher "ReefAquarist"

Yes, the gallery is a nice place to see pictures, for guick refference and such.  (I don't know how I got this font,) I would like to see pictures in the gallery, but I for one know that my tank has changed in the last two years and have not sent any in to update it.  I think it is just easier, to post a picture and say look whats up.  Sorry, if I came across rude.

JOhn

The real drawback to throwing pictures in the posts is that they will eventually be "lost".  The pictures in my posts are in my web space site from my ISP, but if I change ISPs (which everyone does occationally), the pictures will not be viewable from the message board anymore (not linked properly).  Is there a way around this?  Should there be guidelines to picture size when posted to the board or does everyone have dsl/broadband?

Hey mark, did anyone offer to post your tank pictures?  Doesn't your ISP provide you with some free web space?  Email 'em to me if not, and I'll post 'em so everyone can see :).

...how come my camera doesn't take as good of pictures as the ones earlier in this thread...

Jon,

This will not be an issue once we have version 7 of the web wiz forums software, then we can upload the pictures directly to the server running this forum.  Jake is just waiting for version 7 to be fully released.

Dave

Hey Aaron,

That image of the green slimer is fantastic. I noticed that it is placed toward the center of your tank. Did you zoom in on it, or temporarily place it next to the glass to take the photo. What kind of camera and what resolution is it.

A friend has just called me to say that KUED is running a NOVA program about the Caulerpa in the Mediterranian.

Very nice.

It has a pleasant, soothing appearance.

Galaxia are cool aren't they! (below the magnet algae scraper in the photo).   and is that a Frogspawn? It's just the right size for my 10 gal. tank. Where did you get it?

Dave,

Your tank looks nice.  What about the other one?  The galaxia looks real nice, I'm glad you got it. Nnow I know it is in a good home.  I have another baby galaxia coming right a long.

Thanks Mark and John!

Mark - yeah galaxia rule!  I love to watch if feed.  Yes that is a frogspawn I got from MSM for $20 I think.  There are buds around the current head but it is very slow growing hopefully it will grow faster when I add more lights.  And maybe I should start feeding it more directly.  If I could get it to grow a new head I would be happy to frag it for you.

John - The 7 gallon minibow is at work, I brought my camera today so I'll have to take some pics to post later.  Very cool, Danny will be begging you for that one.  I had my galaxia in his tank for a while when I moved tanks and he almost didn't give it back.

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Suzy,

Nice start of a website there!

The macro setting on your camera only allows it to focus closer it does not change the size of the pictures.  In the menu you can set the picture size to Large, Medium, or Small and 3 compression settings - these are what affects the size of the files and how long it would take to download the pictures.  If you right-click on the file and go to properties it will tell you the size of your picture.  The one you have here:

http://home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_0992.JPG">http://home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_0992.JPG

Is about 740K, this means you could post about 14 pictures of this size.

To add an image to your post here click the add picture button and type in the location of the file.  If you wanted to post the picture I used as an example you would type in the whole line above.

HTH,

Dave

The pictures are great everyone! As a newbie with the brain power of a knat I sure would like to read details about everyones tanks, the equipment and critters.

Suzy, the only thing I might add to Sarnack's post is it's very easy to reduce the size of your pictures using almost any photo manipulation software (what came with your camera?).  Check out these two photos from your web page (looks good, by the way).

This one is your original (774 kb): http://home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_1008.JPG">http://home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_1008.JPG

Here's the same picture compressed further (151 kb): http://www.xmission.com/~jfinch/IMG_1008.jpg">http://www.xmission.com/~jfinch/IMG_1008.jpg

To me, the smaller more compressed picture isn't enough different to justify the larger picture size.  You'll be able to fit more pictures on your web page (70 rather then 14!).

And since this post is for tank pictures, here's my tank 10 minutes ago:

I couldn't resist putting another picture up...

Thanks.  Yep, it's an Anthias.  The Hippo and Yellow have been a really good combination.  I had the Yellow for about 2 years before adding the Hippo and was really nervous to add it but they get along just fine.  The Yellow will act tough once in a while but the Hippo totally ignores it and they feed side by side all the time.  I think their shape and colors are different enough to keep the hostilities down...

Jon,

I knew I forgot to mention something... I use XP power toys to resize my pics cause it is fast.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

Great tank!  What is the red "thingy"?  I'd love to know more about your tank; lights, circulation, how long set up, pretty much everything

Dave

Jon,

Now that I look at it I see you didn't just resize the picture, did you?  What program did you use to change the compression?

Dave

rfoote-

$17 sounds great (don't know I'd ever be willing to pay $95 for a fish!).  I wouldn't mind going in on a shipment but I'm still not sure that the Foxface is the best solution for my tank.  My main reason in wanting one is to help rid my tank of bubble algae (valonia).  J. Sprung listed the Lo and Siganus Rabbitfishes as good eaters of valonia and hair algea in his new Algae guide.  If a Rabbitfish will get along with my tangs then I'd give it a try.  Have you seen any information on how they live with other fish?

Sarnack,

I use Photoshop, but every photo editing program I've ever used has an option when saving a .jpg where the "quality" can be adjusted (I just checked, the program that came with my digital camera and the software with my scanner both have this option).  Suzy's picture was saved using Photoshop with a quality of 6 (out of ten).  To be honest, even at a quality of 1, 2 or 3 there is very little loss, to my eyes, but huge savings in file size.  Since my camera kinda sucks, I tend to keep my photos at 640x480 too.

With regard to my tank:  the red thingy is a ball sponge, cheap and adds nice color.  It's a 20 gallon with diy overflow.  5 gallon sump with diy skimmer.  ~300 gph sump to tank circulation that splits to two different nozzles (see pic) and a 160 gph powerhead in tank.  250 watt MH with 150 watts VHO atinics (fan needed :) ).  No dsb, only about 1 inch aragonite.  It's got a combination of softies and stonies and a small clam.  I add B-Ionic for alk/Ca addition.  About once a month I'll add a little iodine.  I'm not yet sold on other additives.  4 fish, yellow tang, fiji damsel, occ. clown and a six line wrasse.  I feed about 1/8 of a square of brine shrimp plus with an equal amount of mysis shrimp in about 1/4 cup of phyto per day (once a week I'll feed flake instead of the frozen).  It's been set up for only 5 months.  Can't think of anything else.

Sarnack, I like the look of your tank too.  The calerpa mixed throughout the tank looks nice!  And I like the way you've curved the live rock to make a sort of grotto in the middle... I have little artistic ability, my tanks always look like I just dumped the rock in and let it lay where it drops :).  I move corals around more often then my wife rearanges the furnature :)

Jon,

Nice color indeed!  Anything red is good in my book.  At first glance I thought it may have been a red brain but I didnt think that it would be in the shade then.  I have been wanting to turn my 25 gallon into a clown/anemone tank for a while and after seeing your tank it makes the urges that much worse.  What are you running in the sump? (just full of questions arent I?)  Are you going to have a bigger tank for when the Tang grows up?

Thanks, the rock work looked better before I moved the tank... ohhh well, some day I'll get bored enough to play with it some more.  And I was going to say how I loved your rock work!  Is there some kind of support structure? 

Dave

Jon,

I forgot... As for the calerpa, I wish I would have never put it in there.  It gets really old pulling it out by the fist fulls every few weeks.  I need a fish that eats the stuff so I don't have to do the work.

I must be getting tired, now I see that you run just a skimmer in the sump... my bad.

Dave

Dave,

The Caulerpa is now an integral part of your filtration and harvesting it makes this an Algae Scrubber filtration component!

Most Yellow Tangs (not all) will decimate a tank of Caulerpa, but be careful because when the algae scrubbing filtration is removed, either another algae will grow to take the place of the caulerpa or some other method of exporting nutrients will need to be incorporated into the system.

Yellow Tangs are not the only Tangs that will eat caulerpa. Scopus, Purple, and sometimes Sailfin Tangs will also eat caulerpa. I've had a Tang related to the Naso that loved Valonia. It was a Blue Spot Tang sold to me as a juvenile Blonde Naso.

Fish will only grow as large as the food available to them and most of the time will not reach maximum size in a smaller tank, so a Tang in your tank would look good for a long time. Personally though, I like your tank just the way it is.

Next time you are going to harvest Caulerpa, let us know here. Some of the newer hobbyists will be happy to take it.

Mark

I have tons of Caulerpa if anyone ever wants to come by and get some.

Adam

Quote: Originally posted by Sarnack on 15 April 2003

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Nice color indeed!  Anything red is good in my book.  At first glance I thought it may have been a red brain but I didnt think that it would be in the shade then.  I have been wanting to turn my 25 gallon into a clown/anemone tank for a while and after seeing your tank it makes the urges that much worse.  What are you running in the sump? (just full of questions arent I?)  Are you going to have a bigger tank for when the Tang grows up?

Thanks, the rock work looked better before I moved the tank... ohhh well, some day I'll get bored enough to play with it some more.  And I was going to say how I loved your rock work!  Is there some kind of support structure? 

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My sump has a skimmer, two pumps, a make-up water float switch (connected to a pump and piped into the sump) and a sock.  The sock is to coalesce bubbles from the return line and skimmer.  I've tried removing the sock, but too many bubbles.  Next on my to do list is move the skimmer out of the sump and install baffles to see if I can stop the bubbles.  I forgot to mention before, I've installed my heater in the tank overflow (it was too long for the sump and I didn't want to stick it in the tank).  I also have a "bunch" of calerpa in the overflow.  My overflow level stays about 1 inch below tank level using a durso type overflow pipe.

I am planning to move into a larger tank.  Regarding my rockwork:  I take small pieces (size of baseball, but flat) and push into the sand.  These form the foundation of the rest of the reef.  Since I've only got 1 inch of sand, the rocks go clear to the bottom of the tank.  I then position the remaining rock on these foundation pieces always maintaining contact with at least three points on each rock.  This allows for a lot of open space under the reef, good circulation and stablity.  If you have the right shaped rocks there is little concern for collapse.  If all my rocks were round, I'm not sure what I'd do?  Also, one might want to use larger "foundation" pieces in a dsb to keep digging fish from undermining the reef *shrug*.  But, like I said before, I'm usually more impressed by other peoples rock work then mine :)

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Peterson on 15 April 2003

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Fish will only grow as large as the food available to them and most of the time will not reach maximum size in a smaller tank, so a Tang in your tank would look good for a long time. Personally though, I like your tank just the way it is.

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hmmm, that hasn't been my experience.  An underfed fish will remain small, but not healthy.  A properly fed (healthy)  fish will grow to normal size regardless of tank size.  This is my experience in freshwater fish...maybe saltwater is different, but I doubt it.

...just my observations

Suzy,

What photo editing program do you have on your mac?  Most digital cameras come with image editing software.  I haven't used a mac in 6 yrs, so the programs I remember are probably "old school" by now.  I'll bet the new Mac OS has image editing capabilities built into it.  Anyway, to reduce the file size of a photo you can either make the change in the camera (see Sarnacks post) or change it afterwords using the image editing software.  Within the software you can either reduce the total pixel count (actual viewable size of picture) or use more file compression (same size picture, smaller file size and some loss of quality) or do both.  If you were able to change the pixel "size" using the program you have, look around in the "save" window for a slide bar or box where you can change the "quality" or "compression" of the photo.

If you still end up with large file sizes, we may need to talk about/change image dpi.

Jon,

IMO marine fish are different because there is usually something for them to eat in the tank itself. When feeding is minimul, they find stuff they can survive on and just like the Japanese people of years past they don't reach full size but they are healthy. In fact in many cases fish can be healthier when they have to work to eat and the food they find is natural rather than prepared.

Mark

Suzy,

I know a bit about Macs too, we have about 60 here at work, so if you need help you can give me a call. PM me if you want my phone number.

To find the size of a file on a Mac you click on the file to select it, then press Command and I to "get info" (same as going to Edit, Get Info on the file menu)

If you are using OSX you can get iPhoto for free and it RULES!  If you are on 8.x or 9.x and need photoshop let me know and I'll see what I can find.

Dave

Mark,

I like the benefits of the algae but not the drawback of it growing everywhere and having to pull it out manually.  If I were to do it again I would have converted the sump in the back to a fuge and kept the algae out of the main display part of the tank.  If I had a small fish or other creature that would constantly prune it for me I would be happy. (maybe I could fit a dwarf underwater goat in there)

Usually when I harvest I take it up to Danny for his tangs to eat.  But next time I will harvest right before the meeting and bring it to share.

Dave

Suzy,  on my camera, pictures taken at 640x480 and medium quality are 150 kb in size.  I can go into photoshop and "resave" it using more compression down to 50 - 70 kb in size without effecting the quality (at least to my eyes).  640x480 is, imo, a good size for a bulletin board like this, but you might want a few bigger pictures on your web site (1600x1200) but compresses them down as I did in yesterday's post.  What I usually do is take the pictures at the largest resolution/quality my camera will do, then resize/compress using the computer software.  I then store the "large" photo on my hard drive or cd.  The "large" photo is what I would use if I were to print the photo (after adjusting the dpi up).  You should make the pictures on a web site as small (file size, not pixel size) as you feel comfortable doing...eventually as you keep compressing the file the quality will suffer, at that point you've gone too far.

(I thought Mac's were suposed to do this for you without any operator input )

I see a big red X.  Am I doing anything wrong?

John

Suzy,   It looks like you're trying to reference this address:

http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_0992.jpg">http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/home.earthlink.net/~rapplegart/_uimages/IMG_0992.jpg

Which doesn't exist.  Try it without the http://www.utahreefs.com/forum">www.utahreefs.com/forum part.

Quote: Originally posted by Suzy on 15 April 2003

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Ok, Guys. Talk to me like I'm blonde. *snip* .....Suzy

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How yu doo in?  Come here often?

Ok, I'll try.

Maybe you've got a ghost in the machine?

Here's one of mine:

Has anyone else noticed that Shane is from Antarctica?

Shane, how about a shot of the inside? The coral is kind of washed out in the image above.

Sorry,

I'm not sure why I'm getting the red "X" of death. Any help?

Try this: http://www.geocities.com/rather_b_boatin/">http://www.geocities.com/rather_b_boatin/

Shane

Shane, I think it's hyperlinked ok, but geocities is often "busy" from too many users and too little bandwidth.  This afternoon the picture showed up fine.

Again:

Thanks Sarnack for helping me post these pics of my 2 month old 10 gallon tank using 80% Utah Oolitic sand and 90% Utah Aragonite rock

and the right side

Two power heads, no skimmer, 1/4 cup of carbon 1 day/2 weeks, no heater, 24W PC blue/pink tube, near south facing window, feed brine shrimp and spirolina flake 2x/day, 4x recommeded dosage of Sprung's Marine Snow daily and 1/2 cup phytoplankton every other day. Lots of feeding - no additives other than really hard tap water for top-off!

Five+ types of macroalgae (including valonia), about 12 sps/lps hard coral frags, approx. 21 soft coral frags, 1 rose anemone, 2+ types of sponge, 4" crocea clam, 1 hawaiian feather duster worm, 1" flame scallop, 2 green chromis, 1 yellow tail damsel, 1 bi-color blenny, 2 porcelin crabs, 15 snails of 4 types and perhaps 10 hermits of 2 or 3 types.

Did I really put all that in a 10 gallon tank?!!!

Thanks to Rod P., Joe and Cindy J., Rick B., Asad M., Steve L., Jeff H., Orrian R., Kirk T., Chad S., the WMAS coral frag mtg., Commercial Lighting Supply, and the SLC LFS's for all the frags and stuff. Approximate total cost: $300

Happy to help, and I got the sneak preview before you posted them

That is an amazing tank!

Nice looking tank.  I like your aquascaping!

John Fletcher "Reefaquarist"

Very nice tank, Mark.  When are you going to show me in person?

Jon,

If I recall correctly, you work just down the street for one of the refineries. Call and drop over anytime, even during lunch. The tank is in my office or my home depending on the time of day!

Mark  296-1563

Steve,

I took an unexpected trip to Roswell, NM (abducted by aliens!) and hope to be back later this week. Call me anytime. 296-1563 is my cell phone.

Quote: Originally posted by Mark Peterson on 28 April 2003

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I took an unexpected trip to Roswell, NM (abducted by aliens!) and hope to be back later this week.

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