2.5 slice of paradise.

[ram man]

For some reason my tanks just keep getting smaller and smaller, and for some reason I felt the need to document my 2.5 budding reef. I only have 2 corals right now, a nice galaxia coral, and about 3 polyps of GSP. Just as a little glimpse of what lives in this tank, i have a few pics, 1 is ok I guess...

Ok shot I guess, wasn't happy with it. Compair his size to the GSP polyps in the backround, the little guy is only an inch long.

Best of all the shots

He was done showing off and retreated back to his cave.

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I wouldn't say PARADISE... He's like bright nuclear green!

 

[saltwater4life]

he looks so cool, hows the pain he gives you when he attacks your fingers lol

 

[Fuzz16]

ooo hes so tiny!
and very beautiful!

 

[ram man]

No pain at all really. Doesnt even cut flesh yet, the only thing he can currently hunt is amphipods. I just got 2 zoa frags and 2 mushrooms. Should have pics up tommorow.

 

[MrBungle]

and the battle begins....

 

[Katie217]

Nice ram, lets see those pics!

 

[ram man]

I would have pics if the zoas were open.... and an epic battle it shall be.

 

[ram man]

 

[CoolWaters]

the G. viridis only gets like 2" long right???

your shots are kinda blurry =/ but thats a nice neon green mantis

 

[Katie217]

Lets see a fulltank shot

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

wow, thats cool that he has his spot right at the glass like that!

 

[ram man]

Coolwaters, i know they are blurry, but try photographing something an inch or less that is extremely fast, and my camera doesnt help either

 

[YahooFishKeeper]

haha ram. does your camera have a quick action, or sports setting? if it does, it increases the shutter speeed, and helps cut down on bluriness.

 

[JeLeAk]

my advice is to set your camera on a tripod and let the shrimp walk infront of it, thats how i try to take pics of fish, i will set the tripod up in the path that they seem to swim by the most, and try to snap one off, the smaller the object your trying to capture the harder it is (as you obviously know)

 

[CoolWaters]

Coolwaters, i know they are blurry, but try photographing something an inch or less that is extremely fast, and my camera doesnt help either

i use a chair or a tall box as a tri-pod. and some digi cameras just suck at taking moving pics. need something with a fast shutter speed =/

oh and my zoom function is broken...so the best i can do is take great quality pics and enlarge the small parts that i need. its like 3 megs per pic.

 

[ram man]

Ok, i am going to clean the tank and get a full tank shot, and a shot of the zoas

 

[Cichlid-Man]

I hope your hand gets bitten while you clean the glass.

 

[ram man]

Well they didnt cuz my mantis is just to balla to do that to me. The zoas are super glued to thr coks and i am waiting for them to open.

 

[MrBungle]

my zoas are so balla, they open on command.