Mike M.

Clint, I love the frag discs on the overflow! M<ike

Copper band butterfly and a Leatherback(aka Aptasia Eating Filefish)-both good options for a predator style approach outside of the usual peppermint shrimp technique. I enjoyed my Leatherback tremendously...cool community fish. No trouble to anyone in the tank. Yellow tang hassled my Butterfly incessantly and most likely contributed to its early demise. It ate brine shimp and everything! So anyway, those are two good alternatives to approaches mentioned above. I'm also an Aptaisia X user and like the product. Mike

Sorry to hear that the wrasse was a trouble maker for you. I could have given you my fishing rig to help catch him! Mike

In the flooring department, you can find 1/4" thick dense foam floor cushion. Not carpet pad, but cushion for high traffic hard floor applications. I have used this under a sump and liked how it performed. Just enough deformation to accommodate irregularity in the deck surface and to fully support the glass bottom of the sump. It is sold by the foot. Looks like it also comes in 2x3 sheets: Cushion Check it out!

Manual mode, no flash. Underexpose slightly and adjust white balance in photoshop or Aperature. That'll fix you up.

Glad you are happy. I'm happy to have things trimmed back! Cheers!

What the heck, I'll play. This is my 120 SPS tank. I have been running zeo since mid January and was a Polyp Lab guy for 12 months prior to that. Tank did have a 4" sand bed that crashed and is bare bottom now. My wife wants us to add a 1" crushed coral bed back to it. Needing to sell the candy cane colony out of the tank or frag it down to next to nothing to make room. It is bigger than a bowling ball! The favia is eight years old and is the old man of the tank. Enjoy!

The osmolator pump will not push water through a kalk reactor. It can be rigged with a third party pump to use with a kalk reactor. Mike

Can I suggest that you go to Home Depot and pickup an outlet tester. It will indicate if your polarity is wrong and whether you have grounding. This is will rule out a circuit problem. Next will be to isolate each component of the tank until you find the culprit is the circuitry checks out. Mike

Well, I can offer one instance where I would like for my D2x to have video capability-Underwater photography. I do macro and wide angle when we have a dive vacation. Once in a while something comes along that a kinetic media like video would be really fun...swimming with a turtle. Color change of squid or octopus. Various cnidaria floating in the current. No way to do that with a D2X, but a housed D300 or other camera with this capability would let me have my cake and eat it too. So its funny how these features appeal to different users.

Robb, If you are using a D40, I believe the only thing of true value you gain in moving to the D90 is: Depth of Field Preview Slightly better/clearer viewfinder. I really don't think you should pine for this. Not worth the bucks IMHO to upgrade. Making the jump to a D300(yes, I know, big bucks) would be a worthy jump though. That D40 is A-okay. I use one in my dental office and once you get used to the stupid menu drive aperature and shutter speed controls, they do a great job! Mike

I use a D2x for action and have a D70 with the 18-200 for groups, stills, and knocking around.

Had to do it over, I would only purchase the 12-24 and the 70-200. The 28-70, although a sharp shooter, renders very boring photos. Its perspective is too close to our eyes perspective and what you get are just dumb old snapshots. I did a portrait last night of a gal and her two retrievers that won two stakes in a field trial last week and I used one lens-12-24mm. Good depth of field at f8 and technicolor color rendition that made me look pretty good in low light/bad conditions. Here is a photo taken after 6:00pm, strobe on a strobe frame, with the 12-24mm: 12-24 Girl and Dog Portrait I don't have many photos, if memory serves on my Mighty Dog site that were taken with the 28-70. I tend to use that for photos of stuff for ebay and craigslist. Ridiculously expensive lens for ebaying stuff. All of my outdoor action photography is with the 70-200 f2.8 and if I could only have one lens in the world, that would be it. Okay, so this has gotten way off of the original question, but it has been good entertainment through a day when my schedule has not been too thick at the office and some nut decided to run a plane into an office building because he hates the government. Thanks for playing photography with me! Mike