JamesL

Happy birthday to the big honcho himself... Mike (mFrame)!

Thanks for all you do to keep ARC up and running ... hope you have a great day!

Oh no! Another LED convert! They are everywhere! Haha. Congrats Dave! Lighting looks great.

That bucket of dead corals almost brings a tear to my eye. I've been in this too long and too emotionally attached now! I'll pour some saltwater on the ground for those that didn't make it!

It the quiet future Ty I love my LED's on my big tank, especially the silence of them.

Great looking set up Dave!

Nice! Love the picture of the plate popping off babies.

Oh no! I didn't know fish did that, sorry that happened

I have some holes where the grating broke away on my powerheads, so that is how he got in there. I should look into getting replacement parts for them.

During dinner last night I looked over at the tank and saw it "snowing" ... and was wondering why. Upon looking closer, it was snowing fish scales. My little six line wrasse had decided to go into on my my powerheads when it was off and then got stuck when it turned on

It sure is pretty

No, those are exports out of the iPhone app. I didn't realize it was available in the app till I read a blog post.

I think the desktop support of this is still in beta.

Playing around with some new post-processing features where you can export the "living" pictures into animated gifs via the iPhone app.

The first, refocus animation:

The second, perspective shift animation:

Will have out of town guests

Gotta love that there are hidden "features" on this camera like Wifi and Bluetooth that they enable later.

Condy's are not natural hosts for clowns, though there have been people that have gotten clowns to host in them.

Here is a very high level overview of what clowns host with what anemones in the wild:

http://saltaquarium.about.com/od/anemoneclownfishprofiles/tp/tpclownanemonematches.htm

A lot of reading I have done though suggests that in captivity clowns might host in "non-natural" anemones... with bubble tip being a popular one for clowns to choose. They will also happily (for them) sometimes host in corals to the point of annoying the corals. I had a maroon clown that kept trying to host in my duncans, and really made the duncans mad to the point they would not open. Sometimes the corals don't mind, like I have seen clowns hosting in frogspawn happily.

Nice looking pair of clowns! Now you really can have long staring sessions at the tank. You going to get an anemone down the road?

Very nice looking!

that is an awesome tank. i was thinking of taking a few pictures of my 20g planted and posting it, but now i think i'll pass .

Awe come on, post away. Tim's 20+ year old tank thread got me into thinking about old tanks today.

Massive BTA tank or a carpet anemone tank. You could so a center rock piece with a ton of BTA's on it, or do light rockwork in the back corners and nice carpet anemone in the center.

If you want to do schooling, some chromis or cardinals or even anthias if you don't mind their feeding requirements.

Just throwing some ideas out there.

A massive anemone tank would be awesome... need to dig up my photo from the Monaco aquarium.... here it is:

I also first thought Chromis for schooling, but reading I was doing today suggested that they school for predator protection in the wild. But in the aquarium, once they figure out there are no predators, they start turning on each other and whittle down the pack. So I guess the moral here is to also add a shark to the tank

Cardinal fishes are probably one of the more peaceful schooling fish out there. They are not the most colorful fish, but pretty neat.

A large number of these dwarf cardinals would be cool:

http://www.reefsmagazine.com/forum/reefs-magazine/87840-keeping-dwarf-cardinalfish-apogon-parvulus.html

My first thought then I saw this tank was a rock "mound" or "tower" in the center of the tank, which would allow fish to swim in circles around it. I can't remember if it was on this forum, or another, that someone has did the "rock mound" in the a cube tank, and it came out really neat.

The tank is older than me

*Shakes his cane* You darn kids, get off my sand bed!

While I only have saltwater tanks these days, I did used to have freshwater tanks. This is one I set up 13 years ago (I had freshwater tanks a lot earlier than that, but that was before digital cameras )... I really do like the look of a nice natural planted tank.

So feeling a bit nostalgic today, here are the only photos I have of it. The tank eventually became a saltwater tank for a brief time before an anemone wiped out the tank.

My clam had been moving all over the sand bed since I had added it to the tank (small squamosa I got at C4). A week or so ago I tried putting it back into the rock work again.

When I first got it, I had also tried this (which caused be to tear apart my rock work), and it was not happy as it kept flinging itself off the rock work. I was tryign to put it mid-tank level, directly under the lights.

Well, this time I seem to have found a spot it likes, as it has been there for almost two weeks. It is as the back/top of the tank. Surprisingly, it is not the strongest light/flow, but it seems real happy there. Which of course is not the best viewing angle for me, but oh well, it is happy.

I think a lot comes down to not fiddling with the tank, the amount being fed, etc. Back when that tank was started, there would not have been the amount of monitoring, additives, etc available. So people would tend not to obsess over every detail of the water chemistry Also from the video, if you look at the corals, I don't want to call them "easier" ones to keep, but definitely not as pickier as SPS.

I personally have found with my tanks, they do better the less I mess with them. I am definitely on the less-frequent-water-change program ... but that is also coupled with the not-feeding-that-often plan too. So I don't get the big nutrient spikes from over feeding.

This looks to be the version 1.x of the app (at least in the iOS side). The version 2 of it is still paid.

And it looks like they went from paid to free on this version and added ads, making people unhappy who had already paid for an ad free experience.

Blame the kids

Very nice looking! The neon green leather really pops.

I want to see someone set this up as a saltwater

http://outdoors.dailysteals.com/heist/9789/USB-Desktop-Aquarium

Not to sure about having a phone so close to the water.

Stuff moving in the tank is always fun

Making fun of my enthusiasm again . Glad you're sharing in it.

I'm not telling how many hours have been spent with a flashlight trying to catch glimpses of things.

Not at all. I think everyone has sat there with a flashlight exploring their tanks.