Before and After Photos

[T. VO]

I'm sure everyone has old photos of their reef tank..
So snap a new photo and post up your before and after shots. :)

[[G]h0s'][']

The tank came out nicely, Fred. It looked nice when I last saw it early this year. Did you change out your lighting system or bulb? Looks bluer. :)

[T. VO]

Yup, went from 2x65 PC's to 175watt 14k hamilton. MH rules.

[REEFWAVE]

good looking tank SoKaL ReeFiN it has come along beautifully.
heres mine, this was taken at the tanks 3 month mark. (3/10/04)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/staticfishmonger/fulltanknew.jpg

here it is now (picture taken 12/2/04)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/staticfishmonger/fulltank12-2-04small.jpg

i have another of the tank right after i got it up and running, ill try and find it when i get home and post it up.

[brahm]

wow talk about some GSP growth! Nice job.

[REEFWAVE]

Originally posted by brahm
wow talk about some GSP growth! Nice job.

yeah i tried to contain them at one point, but finally just gave up and let them have that entire rock...lol
here is a pic not to long after adding them to the tank, it was the second coral i added to the tank. got it from the $9.99 bin at AW. (sometime in feb. of this year)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/staticfishmonger/oldgreenstarpolypssmall.jpg

here is the latest up close pic (taken 10-14-04)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v86/staticfishmonger/starpolyps10-14-04.jpg

[T. VO]

Your candycane grew a ton too! What kind of lighting are you running?

[REEFWAVE]

440w of VHO's. 2 110w super Actinic and 2 110w Actinic white bulbs. lights are on for a total of around 12 hours a day. so far i have been very pleased with the look of the lights as well as there ability to really bring out the color of the corals.
im thinking of adding some moon lights for night time viewing as well.

[MarLooney]

nice pics.... try toping these!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/08.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/09.jpg

HAHAHAHHA.... we were running a fuge light for the longest on that thing :D.

[MarLooney]

here's the whole tank. i needa do another update. i just reaquascaped yesterday. it looks waaaay better. she's got a bunch of huge caves.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/07.jpg

[JeromeBaker]

Those green striped mushrooms grow to be freakin huge. I have a gang of em and the smallest has grown to have a diameter of probably 3" with the biggest at probably 6". The crazy thing is two months ago none were bigger than 3".

[MarLooney]

i just removed it when we did the reaquascaping. she wanted to keep it but i wanted it outta there. it's probably about 4" in diameter.

[JeromeBaker]

The guy that I got my rock from had em in his tank that were probably 8-10", no exageration(sp?).

[MarLooney]

that's nuts!... low light? wanaleime had a bunch of shrooms prolly 6"... he had good lighting but had 'em far from it... 36"tall tank and they were at the bottom.

[JeromeBaker]

Yeah it was pretty crazy they were like the size of a dinner plate:eek: The biggest ones were kind of hiding from the light towards the ends of his tank. They were under t5 lighting.

[MarLooney]

OK back on the subject...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/05.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/04.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/MarLooney/Growth%20Pics/06.jpg

[fier138]

96 powerquads kick ass I got mine yesterday soooo sweeet!