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RE: My Tank

gho — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:36:39 GMT

You can! Check out the lessons:

http://www.ximinasphotography.com/lessons/index.html

RE: My Tank

Cela Vie — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:14:01 GMT

gho,

Great tank/pictures and thanks for the lessons.

I'm glad this thread was pinned. I've been looking for information of taking pics of my tank, but it's always do this and that. Never the why do this and that and it's never everything like you website has.

Thanks again...

RE: My Tank

JayC — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:50:33 GMT

Sweet pics gho!! I wish I could take pics like you can.

-Josh

RE: My Tank

gho — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 11:50:23 GMT

Bingo (10/4/2006)

WOW! You are an amazing photographer. Doesn't even look like its real. Not a bubble... and its crystal clear. I clean my tank glass every day but I've plenty of purple dots all over my glass.

Well, there is some cleanup effort in post processing the images. A car salesman will wash a car before letting people see it because no one is interested in a dirty/messy car. Likewise, a photo needs to be tweaked and adjusted before you can see through the muck at the true subject.

There's some lessons here on taking photos and processing them.

RE: My Tank

Bingo — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 16:14:53 GMT

WOW! You are an amazing photographer. Doesn't even look like its real. Not a bubble... and its crystal clear.

I clean my tank glass every day but I've plenty of purple dots all over my glass.

RE: My Tank

gho — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:19:23 GMT

Well, I actually posted in the other thread, but I guess it actually belongs here:

Puffer Queen (9/14/2006)

What type of shark does your daughter have??

She has a cat shark. I've got to take a pic of it one of these days, but... Well... I've been lazy She's had it for about a year now

Here's a quick snapshot of it with my daughter. The photo sucks, but oh well. She was doing this thing with adventure bear's adventures (in the photo):

RE: My Tank

Puffer Queen — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:13:43 GMT

Gregory,

Sorry to hear about your kitchen.....solves the problem with who cleans the dishes

What type of shark are you planning for your daughter?

RE: My Tank

gho — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 07:05:00 GMT

Bosox (9/16/2006)

Awesome pics! Yourhouse is spotless. Much cleaner than mine right now What is the second pinpoint monitor you have (reading 53.2). I can't think of what that number would correlate with. I love my pinpoint pHmonitor, and was thinking about ordering the Ca2+ monitor. I've heard mixed reviews though. Thanks!

Phototip of the day: clean your tank before you take a photo of it to show the entire world

My house is a disaster at the moment too, and we have no kitchen to boot, as there's a leak and they had to tear apart half the kitchen to take care of some mold they found

Anyways, yup, that's a Salinity monitor. I think the issue with the Ca2+ monitor is that it gets encrusted or something (not sure). But for me they're just monitors, I take actual measurements weekly. This just helps me see if there's a problem at a quick glance (i.e., a big change from the last time I fed the fish or something). I wouldn't trust it to actually control the salinity in my tank.

My maintenence is pretty simple: Strict Berlin, with weekly 5g water changes, skimmer and NO other mechanical filtration, and no additives, dosing, etc. (I'm too lazy with two kids to chase after).

RE: My Tank

gho — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:59:32 GMT

Puffer Queen (9/14/2006)

How long has the tank been set up?

Sorry for the late reply. The tank's been up for several years, but I had to tear it down and rebuild it a couple of times.

It actually started out about 5 years ago as a FOWLR tank (10g) with Nemo and some other fish (before the movie), when my daughter was an infnant. The movie came out, she recognized her fish, and now she's crazy about Nemo.

Anyways, I was looking at the space where the tank was sitting, and said told my wife that it would look perfect as a built in tank, all I had to do was knock out a few shelves and reinforce the bottom. She told me I was insane. Well.... One day while she was at work and my infant daughter was napping, I took a hammer to those shelves and knocked them out, knocked out the side wall. I was originally going to stick a custom tank there, but after measuring it, I figured out that a 29 would fit perfect. So I got a 29, painted the back and pieced it all together. Took me about 3 months to get everything up, as there were other renovations and projects in the house going on at the time.

It was up for about 3 years and I had an algae bloom that I was fighting like mad. Finally decided to tear down the tank (didn't like the aquascaping and some of the corals anyways). got it reconfigured like pictured above. Had to tear it down last month as the tank sprung a leak and I had to replace it.

Here's the original tank after I put it together and got a few corals from the LFS (2004.02.02):

Here's what it looked like just before I tore it down the first time (actually the big birdsnest in the photo right was the size of a basketball and sticking out at the top of the water and touching the glass in the front.

RE: My Tank

Puffer Queen — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 06:32:16 GMT

Matt,

It is a salinity monitor.

RE: My Tank

Bosox — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:19:59 GMT

Awesome pics! Your house is spotless. Much cleaner than mine right now

What is the second pinpoint monitor you have (reading 53.2). I can't think of what that number would correlate with. I love my pinpoint pH monitor, and was thinking about ordering the Ca2+ monitor. I've heard mixed reviews though.

Thanks!

RE: My Tank

Puffer Queen — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:39:07 GMT

Welcome to MarineDepot.com!!

WOW!!! Awesome pics, tank & setup!

How long has the tank been set up?

Again, welcome - glad you are here!

My Tank

gho — Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:56:47 GMT

Hi, gho here. Some of you may know me, but for those who don't here's a little bit about me.

I'm a professional photographer and I'm always happy to help with any questions of any type. You can find out more about me here.

I also have some free photography lessons with many tips on photographing reef tanks and their inhabitants here: www.ximinasphotography.com/lessons

I look forward to hearing about yourself and seeing all of your beautiful tanks.

Here's some shots of my tank - I've re-aquascaped since, but I haven't had the chance to take any photos of it yet. It's definately on my to do list

Inside

Corner View:

Side View:

Access Panel:

View from Master Bedroom:

View from Hallway:

And everyone's favorite; a view of the sump:

I have a tank in the garage too: