GlennF's 300 gallon DSR Mixed Reeftank

Timelaps of my goni garden

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Today's spotlight is this bright red flowerpot coral (Goniopora Lobata). This coral has been propagated with great success. Placed in different conditions, the colours have developed a few variations

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At one time, I got this coral as ultra-goniopora. Recently, I discovered that the correct name for this species is bernardpora. I had had it since 2015 and until recently it was not growing really fast. Now the propagation is going quite well.

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A while ago i bought a small frag from this pink goniopora w.yellow centre. Now i manage to let it flourishing and also succesfully propagated it. I spead it out over several systems and observe how it will develop.

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This coral was given to me by a LFS because it was slowly dying and he intended to throw it in the garbage bin.
After a slow recovery it started to flourish from a dull yellow coral to a colorfull bernardpora with intense orange tentacles and green centre.
I need to frag it soon, because i am out of space.i also need to make frags for the savekeeping of this specie.

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Coral propagation made easy

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Very nice Gonioporas by night

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Some quick shots of the panoramareef, section1







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Do we spend time to edit all our pictures afterwards to make them more appealing?

Which one do you think represents the true colors? A, B, C, D, None of All ........



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A few critical readers broached the subject that many posted photo looked unnatural and exaggerated and drew the conclusion that it couldn't be otherwise that they must have been post-processed with photoshop or lightroom.

In short, no photos are post-processed because it is a time-consuming and inefficient way of posting. Moreover, it often misrepresents reality.

Here, the problems are tackled differently.

- It starts with getting the most out of the lighting, so that the result (growth and colour) is also satisfactory to the eye.

- Then we set up this lighting for the camera so that it can do something with it directly.

- Because we use a predominantly blue spectrum in marine aquaria, every photo will be blue. That's why we set the white balance correction to 10K Kelvin.

By carrying out the above steps properly, you basically don't have to edit all photos afterwards to get a decent result. This will save you from boring operations and you won't be tempted to overdo things either.

Here you can see what you can achieve with the right lighting, camera setting (2sec) and direct posting(5sec). It doesn't get any more effective than this with post-processing all the photos

Fishes are an indispensable part of our aquarium ecosystem. They are part of it and you want to enjoy the colourful splendour of these fish both live and on camera. That doesn't work under tight blue light. You can also see from the colours of these fish that there has been no messing around with photo editing programmes and filters.

In the first photo, the exposure is set slightly darker on camera. Not excessive but bad to reduce the haze/reflection of the lights on the frontscreen.
















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