Photography/Video

I was out of town for the past week, enjoying some time with my family in Switzerland. We had nearly perfect weather for which I was delighted as I wandered about, Nikon in hand. For this blog entry, I'm going to share all the floral pictures I took. I don't know how many of these flowers exist in the states, but I don't see them here in Texas... so hopefully you'll enjoy them as well. I don't have names for most, but if you happen to know a few I'd be happy to update this entry with any submitted. ...

Poor man's candy basslet

My Favorite addition to my clean up crew. 3 yellow cucs

My new blue/green aussie paly colony. Super awesome huge polyps.

Orange Acans

My new purple/green chalice (7-8" diameter)

Hide and seek around the scoly and my new aussie plate (purple/white stripes with green

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This is my first aquarium video. Nothing special except two of my new additions:



For several weeks I've kept a Caulastrea and a green-tip hammer coral in quarantine and I decided that it was now safe to introduce them to my tank. The hammer coral I picked up from a local club member. I was expecting a small head of coral, but he handed me a huge deli container with a 4-inch tall frag. It's now the largest piece in my tank and it's ...

All under Blue LEDs only. I started too late after the white's already went off.

Enjoy!










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For today's blog entry, I thought I'd share some SPS pictures. They're growing in nicely.

A. austera





Birdsnest, aka Ponape



Love the blue hue (you can see it in the second image) of the main branches in this coral, which has green polyps
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