75 Reef's Bay

[ctxmonitor]

Welcome! I am here to gladly welcome you to my little creation. Not much of anything specticular or breath taking, but it is what it is. My first try and I had face many problems and had great help here to overtake them.

I PRESENT MY REEF'S BAY

The Beginning (The 2nd Week & After Frag SWAP)

Daylight (MH & Actinic) Updated 8-15-05

NightTime ( Actinic Only )

System Stat
Tank: 75 Gallon 48x18x20 with elbow overflow
Light: 2x175 Watt XM MH, 2x54 Watt T5
Sump: 30 Gallon High Sump
Skimmer: DIY Skimmer with Sendra 5000
Return: QuietOne 4000
Runtime: 5 Months Old

 

[jhale]

Tom, that's looking great for 5 months!
with all the hurdles you had to face i would say you are definitely an advanced reefer . I can't wait to see your tank at the one year mark. congratulations.

 

[jackson6745]

Tom your tank looks very nice. I like your aquascaping and coral placement. Post shots with halides when you get them up.

BTW your avatar looks kind of freaky

 

[nanoreefer22]

Tom, Tanks looking good for only 5 months. Those acans look like they need to be fragged..hint hint....Can only imagine what its gonna look like at the one year mark.

 

[jenniebutterfly]

looks great

 

[alrha]

nice tom.

the actinics really bring out those orange colors nicely.

 

[ctxmonitor]

Tom, Tanks looking good for only 5 months. Those acans look like they need to be fragged..hint hint....Can only imagine what its gonna look like at the one year mark.

It doesn't seem too far up ahead The 5 months is just like a blink of an eye.. I think mostly due to the heavy amount of time spend on taking care and working on the tank, you don't even know that time passes so quickly..

BTW your avatar looks kind of freaky

yea, I just took a pic of one of my zoo and photoshop it to look like that. Could you guess what is its orignal color?

 

[ctxmonitor]

Ok, I finally got a shot of the tank with all the light on. Its still isn't doing that well, as I am still in the process of getting the tank to stabilize.

 

[DRZL]

I put money that those are those "blane Perun's PPE...Very nice tankazzle!

 

[ctxmonitor]

Drzl, nope.. I don't have the PPE.. Guess again..

 

[jenniebutterfly]

they are purplish but have a green center?

 

[jenniebutterfly]

kinda like these?

 

[ctxmonitor]

BINGO!! Hey Jennie, how you know? Did you reverse my effect in photoshop?? :scratchch :scratchch

 

[DRZL]

O gripe, I hate to be wrong. How bout some more pics so were not guessing on your avatar homie

 

[jenniebutterfly]

no, but if you ever took photography or art and had to work with a color wheel, you would be able to read the opposite color types opposite of green on the color wheel would be it's complimentary color purple

 

[ctxmonitor]

Ok, I let you see how it look orignally. :approve: :approve:

This is another zoo I got that I like it how it turn out in picture.

 

[jenniebutterfly]

those are nice

 

[ctxmonitor]

I like how sharp the picture came out when I viewed on the PC

 

[ctxmonitor]

Ok, I think its time for a little update.. Took some new pic of the corals with my new camera.. Still learning though.. Its pretty tough and fun.. I am beginning to like photographing.

First off my xenia is taking over my right corner. It manange to get on the glass.

Here is my porcillpora, still growing.

My blue little clam and some zoos.

A very clear shot of this acro. I got it from Steve. Don't know what name is it.

Have fun!

 

[nanoreefer22]

Nice shots. How bigs that clam Tom? I like the xenia on the glass look. I'm trying to make it happen along with star polyps on the glass.