Lighting is everything.
Some are obviously post edited...take a look at the sky. But you need a good shot to start with.
Some are obviously post edited...take a look at the sky. But you need a good shot to start with.
Random Snapshot thread
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Our skunk cleaner shrimp hitching a ride on my hand while SupraCentral and I were doing a water change the other night.
Also, my dog sleeps in funny positions:
Newest additons to our saltwater tank:
Royal Gramma:
Feather Duster (This is a worm believe it or not. Lives in a tube...):
Sand Sifting Starfish:
Flame Angel:
Royal Gramma:
Feather Duster (This is a worm believe it or not. Lives in a tube...):
Sand Sifting Starfish:
Flame Angel:
Tank is by Oceanic.
It's 72.5" x 18.5" x 25" holds 135 gallons. I know it weighs in at well over 1500 lbs with all the gear, water, etc.
Current tank population is (Links to other people's photos since they are better photographers than I am):
Green Chromis x5
Royal Gramma x1
Flame Angel x1
Sand Sifting Starfish x1
Mexican Turbo Snails x1
Astrea Snails x5
Nassarius Snails x15
Dwarf Blue-Legged Hermit Crabs x7
Sally Lightfoot Crab x1
Skunk Cleaner Shrimp x1
Feather Duster x1
It's 72.5" x 18.5" x 25" holds 135 gallons. I know it weighs in at well over 1500 lbs with all the gear, water, etc.
Current tank population is (Links to other people's photos since they are better photographers than I am):
Green Chromis x5
Royal Gramma x1
Flame Angel x1
Sand Sifting Starfish x1
Mexican Turbo Snails x1
Astrea Snails x5
Nassarius Snails x15
Dwarf Blue-Legged Hermit Crabs x7
Sally Lightfoot Crab x1
Skunk Cleaner Shrimp x1
Feather Duster x1
BorHor said:
Maintainance isn't really expensive -
It's the initial purchases of the tank, sand, live rock, salt mix, and livestock that are expensive.
HellsLegion said:
'ey! I helped!
BorHor said:
As Theresa said, maintaining it isn't bad, but setting it up was hella expensive:
The tank, stand & lights were close to $1000
The live rock was about $500
There's about $200 worth of sand in there
The Protien Skimmer was about $200 (this is a must have)
The other filter was about $100
The powerheads were $100 (there are two)
Heater is about $40
The salt for the water was about $40
The testing kits were probably close to $100
The refractometer (measures salt) was about $100
All it all we've probably got close to $3000 into the tank before putting a single living thing in it.
Saltwater fish aren't cheap either. That Flame Angel we picked up yesterday was $60, and he's a CHEAP fish.
You can easily spend a few hundred per fish. Yesterdays fish store trip was probably one of the least expensive trips we've ever made, and I'm pretty sure we spent close to $200. The day I bought the live rock was the funniest. I sat in the car, turned to Theresa and said "You do realize I just spent over $500 on boxes of wet rocks, don't you?". It takes a certain level of insanity to do this stuff.
DreamerTheresa said:HellsLegion said:
'ey! I helped!
Thanks! And yea, she's got as much work into this thing as I do.
We're moving on to Coral next, so things are going to start getting a little more expensive. We need to upgrade the lighting in order to do Coral, which can cost anywhere from $500 to $3000 depending on how 'nutty' you want to go.
Supracentral said:Thanks! And yea, she's got as much work into this thing as I do.
I'm pretty sure it's my arm in the tank for cleaning/rescuing/moving/etc more often than your arm.