Soar.

[dasmall1]

Another beautiful scape by Moody. Great pics, too, especially the second. Glad to see the algea is better. Will this be another AGA entry? Just my opinion, what is the lump in the sand for? I think it would look better flat, or at least sloped towards the front from the back.

 

[n3ont3tra]

Love the idea with the sheep and dolphins!

 

[Liam]

The new camera does your work justice, I particularly love the second pic.

 

[tophat665]

Man alive, I want to do that! Great Idea using something to hold the different sands apart.

That said, the only thing I find missing in this tank is some sort of rising plant. All the plants are so short, I think a few taller plants, hairgrass or Crypt. Retrospiralis or dwarf sag along the left side of the back might look really good. That's just my opinion, and that's still better than anything I have managed to make.

 

[n3ont3tra]

It would be cool if there was a tiny plastic seagull there, about 3 inches above the water, held up by a wire or stick or something coming from the rocks.

 

[Themuleous]

Nice work moody def one for the PFK nano competition. New camera seems to work well too

Sam

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Another beautiful scape by Moody. Great pics, too, especially the second. Glad to see the algea is better. Will this be another AGA entry? Just my opinion, what is the lump in the sand for? I think it would look better flat, or at least sloped towards the front from the back.

Cheers. I think i will enter this in the AGA next year, yes. You got to be init to win

Love the idea with the sheep and dolphins!

Its just a concept that i hope it will evoke in the viewers eyes, not literarily.

Man alive, I want to do that! Great Idea using something to hold the different sands apart.

That said, the only thing I find missing in this tank is some sort of rising plant. All the plants are so short, I think a few taller plants, hairgrass or Crypt. Retrospiralis or dwarf sag along the left side of the back might look really good. That's just my opinion, and that's still better than anything I have managed to make.

I see where you are coming from. The plant you have mentioned would not work with the illusion of size nor with the almost "Iwagumi" design. The design is to represent rocky cliffs with grass gorse and braken hill tops. The planst you sugest would not convey this image.
Coment apreciated.

It would be cool if there was a tiny plastic seagull there, about 3 inches above the water, held up by a wire or stick or something coming from the rocks.

OH MY GOD , cant beleive you said that. There is a long standing joke at work with the lads. The keep seeing my tanks and mention how a florecant skull would improve the whole look, or even a diver or treasher chest. Doh those funny guys There will be no plastic animals,sculls,diver ANYTHING going any where near any of my tanks.

Nice work moody def one for the PFK nano competition. New camera seems to work well too

Sam

Cheers sam, like I say, you got to be init to win it


Cheers all for your coments.

 

[n3ont3tra]

OH MY GOD sick.gif , cant beleive you said that. There is a long standing joke at work with the lads. The keep seeing my tanks and mention how a florecant skull would improve the whole look, or even a diver or treasher chest. Doh those funny guys rolleyes.gif There will be no plastic animals,sculls,diver ANYTHING going any where near any of my tanks. biggrin.gif

I didn't think so. And actually, if it were me, I wouldn't put it in there either.

 

[George Farmer]

Hi Graeme, just a quickie as the only net access is via my phone.

Beautiful! It appears your skills at photography are beginning to balance with your talent as an aquascaper (from what I can see from my N73 screen anyway).

I hope you'll be entering this into the PFK aquascaping contest too. If so it would be unfair for me to give any critique.

How are you finding the 350D? I got a 3rd party manual for xmas, a good read, even if I don't get one.

Are you post-processing in RAW?

Which PS are you running? I have CS2 but have still to install it, let alone get to grips with it!

Keep up the good work mate.

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Hi Graeme, just a quickie as the only net access is via my phone.

Beautiful! It appears your skills at photography are beginning to balance with your talent as an aquascaper (from what I can see from my N73 screen anyway).

I hope you'll be entering this into the PFK aquascaping contest too. If so it would be unfair for me to give any critique.

How are you finding the 350D? I got a 3rd party manual for xmas, a good read, even if I don't get one.

Are you post-processing in RAW?

Which PS are you running? I have CS2 but have still to install it, let alone get to grips with it!

Keep up the good work mate.

Hi George.

I will be entering this into the PFK contest.

The 350D is a good SLR. It was abit diferant compared to my Canon300X 35mm. The focusing is quite slow( from what im ust to ), so i can see this causing problems when trying to capture fast moving fish.
The great thing about it is the white balance settings. You will note the differance in the pictures above. Two of the pictures are very blue, this was due to using the tungston setting and the other two are more soft and sepia like, this was set to shade.
You also have multi focus points ( 7 in all ) which come in handy when you want to concentrate your focus on a poticular leaf, rock etc.
I only shoot in manual ( some think this setting is for the more experianced photographer) because i find I can play with depth of feild ( AV ) and shutter speeds ( TV ) but still get the correct exposure. Also the LCD helps me to make instant changes to exposure if for example the sand is over exposed, you could aslo alter this in photshop.
I have shot the above images in large JPEG, im not ofae with RAW yet.
The 350D is alttle fidely to use, buttons being very small thier position isnt the best erganomics either.

I edited these pictures in Elements5. Its a really easy program to use with most tasks displayed simply. I also have Cs2 but find it abit over whelming, its very technical.

Cheers
Graeme.

 

[Graeme Edwards]

Today, even though feeling like POO ill be acclimatising the Cory's to there new home later.

I have checked the water, Co2 was at 50pmm PH6.
I have got the Co2 down to 15ppm, abit low but the Cory's have been reared in an oxygen rich tank, due to the air driven filter sponge. Once they are in ill creep the Co2 up from there.

Possible new pics tomorrow!

 

[George Farmer]

Look forward to the new additions Graeme, I'm sure they'll look wonderful playing in the sand.

Out of interest what bubble counter and bubble rate were you running, and running now? Are you using pH/KH table for CO2?

FYI I run a Dennerle bubble counter (same bubble size as JBL I think, the ADA bubbles are a lot smaller) and 30 bubbles per minute. This gives me approx. 30ppm CO2 using ref. 4dKH solution in a CO2 dropper test.

 

[Graeme Edwards]

The bubble counter is the JBL plastic type. It was running at ( off the top of my head ) 1bubble every 2-3 seconds now its one bubble every 5.5 seconds. Plus the water level is a little lower than I would normaly have it, so Co2 is being driven off ( I guess) by the HOB filter.
I use Chucks PH/KH Co2 calculator that i downloaded off the net.

 

[Graeme Edwards]

I have added the corys last night and they seem fine, 6 in all.








Happy new year to all.

 

[Gill]

I have added the corys last night and they seem fine, 6 in all.

that is an excellent shot, "We Rule this tank" kinda look on the cories faces