Tuesday night 6-pak

beachbumtx

beachbumtx

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Its been a long time since I posted pictures of my 55gal. Since July, I have upgraded to 440 watts of VHO from 260 watts of PCs. Here are some pictures...
Tricolor Acropora
 
shawnts106

shawnts106

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Absolutly STUNNING!!!!.. Do you just have VHO's? I do too, im growing Monti Dig (orange and red) monti cap (orange like yours) and a hydnophora... how long have you had your acros... montis, ect???
 
donahue

donahue

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What are your thoughts on moving from 260watt pc to 440 vho? i have a 55 gal and i am interested to know what your experience has been. thanks d2. and how about a full tank shot??
 
beachbumtx

beachbumtx

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Originally posted by shawnts106
Absolutly STUNNING!!!!.. Do you just have VHO's? I do too, im growing Monti Dig (orange and red) monti cap (orange like yours) and a hydnophora... how long have you had your acros... montis, ect???
I have 440watts of VHOs only...no other type of lighting.
All my hard corals started as frags in my tank. I have my acros and montis since last spring. I upgraded lighting because the tricolors turned brown. A month after adding VHOs, they returned to there normal colors. Two of the tricolor frags were two inch branch. The other can from a one inch branch I have three tricolor acros in the trank.
 
beachbumtx

beachbumtx

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Originally posted by donahue
What are your thoughts on moving from 260watt pc to 440 vho? i have a 55 gal and i am interested to know what your experience has been. thanks d2. and how about a full tank shot??
I love the VHOs. I wish I never got the PCs and just spent the money for VHOs in the beginning. I get a heck of a lot better coloring in my corals. Only down side is the the mushrooms didn't respond well. They shrunk in size and migrated to the shady sides of the rocks.
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Edited for bad use of words...I was tired.
 
shoreliner11

shoreliner11

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Beautiful looking corals. Its nice to see a tank with corals so colorful from a tank with VHO only. Not the recommended way to go but you show that the results can be quite similar to that of mh systems. Great pics
 
motohead

motohead

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hey david,looks awesome.as usual.
you is a fraggin fool....dont be fooled ya'll,david is a bio dude.if anyone can bring out the best in the harder coral using vhos then he can.he does that crap in school and then works at a great lfs here.lotsa help i get from ol david.....wait a minute,you aint so old are ya??????looks awesome dave,maybe we can work a deal on some frags from some of my crap for some of your crap.
 
beachbumtx

beachbumtx

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Originally posted by donahue
your tank is definitately inspiring! how many pounds of rock would you say you have? 100?
I would not doubt if it was around 100 pounds. I lost track. I had to slowly build up the rock structure in the tank. As Mike mentioned (Motohead), I am a college student (Graduate in the spring), so I can't afford much at one time.
I am going to move from a 55gal to 75gal by this summer. I want bigger, but I can't afford bigger at this time and I live in a appartment so space is limited.
 
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