hello everyone, so its been about 2 weeks with the new tubes in, this pic is the best that i can get that reps the acctual color of the corals. except the table by the over flow, it looks super white, but in person is a light green.

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/fts1.jpg

Wow, that's really fantastic work over the year. Amazing corals in your tank.

yup, its been quite the year here on canreef as well for my tank, going from a softie mix to inbetween to full on SPS.

taken dec 6th 2008
http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...00/zeovit1.jpg

taken dec 12th 2009

http://i496.photobucket.com/albums/r...y1000/fts1.jpg

John your tank is looking stunning. I look at it as one of the things to give me motivation to try and forge forward with mine. I have the same idea as to having a slight mix of LPS with SPS, it just seems to make it more interesting.

thanks Mike,

it is more intresting, you can get different colors and differnt shapes with the LPS, and with the torches and hammers more movement.

I would love to have a tank just with hammers and torches and a wavebox that would be cool.

very very very shiny John! Yep that tank has gotten pretty shiny over the last year indeer :D

PS I only counting 2 FTS when you promised 6!! :razz:

Wow dude tank looks ridiculous ....nice job...:biggrin:

Throw a question at ya, if you were to do your lighting from scratch would you still go the T5 only route ? I've always been a MH guy but with trying to cut down on power consumption and seeing the success of your tank and several others it looks like either way gets great results.

haha, thanks.

thats Shawn, cant wait to see your tank all growen in, your is looking good too :razz:


thanks for the comp.
I have used MH in the past, acutally those are the lighting that is in the very very first pic of this thread. one blub on the right hand side was burnt out.

I switched to t5s, and havent looked back. And if i started a new system, I would probably go with 2 of the 3ft 8 blub ATI fixtures with the a mix of
2 actinc plus,2 new gen 14k,2 coral light 10k,2 and fiji purple on each fixture.

Hi John,

Those are some nice corals that you picked up, any idea if the person/vendor ships(Ontario)?
Your tank's looking sweet, that is quite the change in a year. Is this your first time growing SPS?

Oh, I think you owe us 5 more FTS :lol:

Cheers