Photography/Video

My friend and fellow reefer Tuan asked me a while back if I wanted any frags. Well, he's got a gorgeous touquoise staghorn acro that I just couldn't resist. Today he dropped it off. Seems he had a bit of trouble cutting the frag though. What he brought was a branch over 6" long! here's a photo of the tip.

My older astrea snails are looking pretty fuzzy these days with their coat of algae. I guess it was just too much for this emerald crab to resist. It was certainly too much for me to resist not grabbing my camera.

Finally got a picture of him at feeding time tonight.

So still experimenting with my new camera, a Nikon D5100 with 18-55mm F/3.5-5.6 lens. Here's a couple of pictures of my fish. Currently all I have are 3 chromis and the one clown. Camera settings were ISO 400, f/5.0 with automatic shutter speed. My lens isn't very fast so even with the vibration reduction I have trouble getting clear shots of the fish at lower ISO settings. Also, I can't seem to get this camera to set white ballance to the tank lighting. So I shot these in Raw format and adjusted ...

The other night I noticed the bubble trap in my sump was red?! Closer examination revealed it was completely lined with little tube worms with red gills extended. Doesn't show up well, but here's the best photo I could get.