vdubdan
Member
Whats up everyone, I have been 'lurking'
on this forum for some time and have been absorbing all the info......finally I have some pics to share. I got this tank about a year ago now, and have been keeping corals sucessfully for about 9 months now. Reading these forums have helped tremendously with my progress and have come through with info in beginning panic situations, to helping me make descisions with new purchases. I found myself coming on here to ask a question, but finding a discussion already up where somone had the same thing happen to them, and my questions were answered. Seeing all of the pictures of peoples new corals and such on here has me driving around on all free hours of whatever day from fish store to fish store to check for new arrivals to drain my wallet. Reading other's tank diaries had helped me make improvements on my own tank setup and maitenance routines to have sucess. So to all you who have posted before me, thank you!
My tank is a 8 gallon TruVu 'Hex?' front with the aquasystems filtration (built in spillover and filter). I started with a 32 watt Coralife fixture (2x18w 50/50 bulbs), and now have a GLO T5 HO 2x24w fixture with a 'marine glo' (blue)and a 'life glo' (10,000K?) bulb. I upgraded because one of the bulbs went out on the coralife fixture after about 4 months, and the light fixture itself was only 12 inches or so wide to my 22 inch wide tank. The GLO fixture is 24 inches and allowed me to cover the entire width of my tank, and gave me more well-lit areas to place corals. I definetely noticed more growth out of my corals once I made this lighing upgrade, and my pockets shrank much quicker because of all the newly well-lit-rock I had to cover with new frags.
Blah blah, I will post more info soon, I am going to see if I can figure out how to post some pics now. I will try to answer any questions too....Peace!
Here is an early shot with an old film camera.....
And a few months later with the old lighting, same bad camera...
more coming, this is to see if I can get pics to work....
My tank is a 8 gallon TruVu 'Hex?' front with the aquasystems filtration (built in spillover and filter). I started with a 32 watt Coralife fixture (2x18w 50/50 bulbs), and now have a GLO T5 HO 2x24w fixture with a 'marine glo' (blue)and a 'life glo' (10,000K?) bulb. I upgraded because one of the bulbs went out on the coralife fixture after about 4 months, and the light fixture itself was only 12 inches or so wide to my 22 inch wide tank. The GLO fixture is 24 inches and allowed me to cover the entire width of my tank, and gave me more well-lit areas to place corals. I definetely noticed more growth out of my corals once I made this lighing upgrade, and my pockets shrank much quicker because of all the newly well-lit-rock I had to cover with new frags.
Blah blah, I will post more info soon, I am going to see if I can figure out how to post some pics now. I will try to answer any questions too....Peace!
Here is an early shot with an old film camera.....
And a few months later with the old lighting, same bad camera...
more coming, this is to see if I can get pics to work....
