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Spectacular colourful reef fish and coral aquarium

These gorgeous corals and tropical fish are in the home aquarium of Mike, a member of the Marine Aquarium Society of Victoria (aka MASOV). The monthly meeting was held at his place this Tuesday, so I had a lot of fun taking many photos of his beautiful tank.

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Thanks to Mike for hosting the event, and for creating such a beautiful aquarium for me to photograph.

Mike’s Marine Aquarium – P365 Sep09

Nomi and I are members of the Marine Aquarium Society of Victoria (MASOV), and today we had our monthly meeting. This time it was at one of the other members, Mike’s, place. He has a beautiful six foot aquarium, and these photos were taken of it.












The theme for the meeting was “How to frag corals”. “Fragging” is essentially the same process as taking cuttings from plants. Most corals can be broken up and will grow back from the parts. It’s a great way to share corals between aquarists, helps limit the amount of collecting of specimins from reefs, and helps teach a great deal about the care and nurture of corals. Plus it is a cheap and easy way to get a wide variety of beautiful corals for your tank.

Member Glen demonstrated the methods for fragging a variety of different corals, some of which are seen here.






Time lapse coral and clown fish – P365 Jul31

For this time lapse, I learned my lesson from last time, and chose a more interesting subject. Here we have a short time lapse of our two little clown fish frolicking in the head of a xenia coral. This was one frame every five seconds this time, and it really makes them look like they’re zipping all over the place!

Some lessons learned this time:

  • Don’t do time lapse in vertical orientation. Video sites will shrink the video to fit a horizontal orientation, making the video look small and ugly.
  • While the clown fish are cute, they move around too fast to be good time lapse subjects.
  • When shooting by AC light, don’t set the shutter speed to be too fast. The power cycle of AC makes lights fade in and out many times a second. Too fast for the eye to see, but slow enough that a camera on 1/200th sec may not expose enough light, resulting in flickering in the final time lapse.

I hope you like this one!

Reporting from WA

Hello! Finally I’ve managed to find a net cafe that will let me upload some photos. If you’re just here to look at the pretty pictures, you can see a selection of photos Nomi and I have taken so far at this link:

http://neilcreek.gravitoncity.com/gallery/v/holidays/wa/

It’s been a good holiday in many ways, but rough in many others. I’ve been fighing a bad cold the whole time, although that’s almost gone now. But now I’ve caught some kind of extremely uncomfortable stomach bug. Foolishly, in the middle of the night last night, I drank a mouthful of untreated, bug infested bore water, rather than the filtered water. Doh… I was half asleep okay? I’m paying for it now though…

Anyway, aside from that, and the incredibly long drives, it’s been a great holiday so far. Lots of beautiful landscapes, billions of gorgeous wildflowers growing everywhere, adorable dolphins that swim right up to you at Monkey Mia. And now we’ve just arrived at Ningaloo, and soon we’ll be checking out the coral reef here. I don’t know how much I’ll be able to do, but I’m assured I’ll be feeling better in 24 hours.

I’m not really feeling up to typing much more now, so I’ll say goodbye. I might be feeling better soon, and make another post tomorrow. If not, you probably won’t hear from me again till we get home. If you have anything to say to this post or the pictures, please leave a comment below, as we won’t be checking email.

Seeyas!

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