[zhenya]

I like to share couple of pics with all you reef junkies I thought they came out pretty neat.

[Poseidon]

Pretty Good??? Those are VERY COOL!!! Indeed

[miareefer]

As normal Gene your pics are amazing Your picture taking skills are only rivaled by your amazing ability at reefkeeping .And as ive heard a thousand times allready your plates are enourmous and something to be very proud off.
Ime glad to see that your appearing to be as keen as ever in the hobby and perhaps that tank might not be coming down after all.
Congrats Americano

[Ninong]

Very nice pictures, as usual. Makes me wanna throw up! I guess I'll have to read the owners manual before I try to take any more pictures.

[zhenya]

Originally Posted by Ninong

Very nice pictures, as usual. Makes me wanna throw up! I guess I'll have to read the owners manual before I try to take any more pictures.

Thanks,guys!
Reading that manual helped me a whole lot

Mia, you gave me waaay too much credit on the reefing skills,I do try however As far as that tank is concerned, I will break it down as soon as I have something larger that I can transfer my livestok into. I'm hoping by the end of this summer or early fall.
Here's one more pic,taken a bit on the angle as I was trying to avoid reflections from the window...eh what the heck, I'll add a pic of two snails doing something...not sure what

[kevinpo]

Hi Gene,
Very nice! I have just one question though. When are you going to come over and take pictures of my tank?!

Regards,
Kevin

[zhenya]

Originally Posted by kevinpo

Hi Gene,
Very nice! I have just one question though. When are you going to come over and take pictures of my tank?!

Regards,
Kevin

Thanks,Kevin

You are darn good with that camera yourself,you just not posting pics lately

I wish I could get to Washington state and your house in particular some day,however, that would require getting on the plane and that is a big no-no for me I'm a big chicken when it comes to flying in the airplanes

Maybe I'll talk my wife in the cross country driving vacations one of this days...heh, like that will ever happen

[kevinpo]

Gene,
As I'm just about an empty nester (1 left out of 5) you can always stay at my house if you make the trip.

Regards,
Kevin

[zhenya]

Originally Posted by kevinpo

Gene,
As I'm just about an empty nester (1 left out of 5) you can always stay at my house if you make the trip.

Regards,
Kevin

Thanks for this kind offer,Kevin.

...How did you managed to get rid of them? I know my daughter is not planning on leaving anytime soon..or ever

Then again, why should she? Mom and dad take care of everything...

[kevinpo]

Gene,
I just threw a $50 on the lawn and when they went for it locked the door

Somehow I think my youngest might not fall for it though after seeing the other 4

Regards,
Kevin

[zhenya]

That's too funy,Kevin. Why I never think of such clever things?

[acropora]

Nice tank and excellent pictures. Good Job.........

[zhenya]

Thanks,Anthony

Here's couple more I took the other day.
This coral here, I can't get over how well it recovered after the rtn type event and is growing again,rapidly at that


and this is a close up shots of various green Acroporas.



and this is pic of my A.chesterfieldensis that I got from Patrick M. last year.


Hope you guys enjoy them.

[lovesalt]

beautiful Gene! The colors are great on those corals!

[kevinpo]

Gene,
That A. chesterfieldensis is killer and so is the shot!

Regards,
Kevin

[zhenya]

Thanks,guys

Kevin, I love that A.chesterfieldensis.Too bad I couldn't capture those huge polyps that it has becouse they really open up fully at night only. I'm begining to think that the reason could be becouse I feed my tank at night and also becouse it is directly under the bulb. Perhaps respiration has something to do with this as well.

Also, a pic just above it shows a coral that I got from John(Cubera) couple of years back.It has some interesting story behind it that I'll tell some other time, what do you think of it as far as id? Those radial corallites(nariform) looks almost A.nasuta like(upside-down nariform shaped corallites) but I'm not sure at all

[Poseidon]

Wow Gene!!!

Those are excellent... Wish I had so many show pieces like you do!!!

[acropora]

Originally Posted by kevinpo

Gene,
That A. chesterfieldensis is killer and so is the shot!

Regards,
Kevin

Beautiful.........................

[kevinpo]

Gene,
A. nasuta is what came to my mind even before you named it. The ones I have seen (I have one) develop elogated leading corallites. They don't seem to come in with them though. I'm guessing they come from areas of strong water flow which may be difficult to duplicate in our tanks.

Regards,
Kevin

[kevinpo]

Here's my A. chesterfieldensis. I have 2 of them but the other one has more brown in it. They seem to take a ton of light to keep them green.

Regards,
Kevin