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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 12, 2013 22:25:58 GMT -5
I promise! I'm Kinda a pic addict LOL
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Post by Jordan Emery on Jan 12, 2013 22:29:03 GMT -5
AHHAHAHA!!!!
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 13, 2013 15:42:20 GMT -5
So today I made my hubby help me take the light down and I pretty much changed the fixture all by myself. I did have to cut the aluminum a bit but I made it work! Yeah!!! LOL now I have two spare bulbs thanks to Jordan for being so awesome! Anyways, this is the final product for my lighting. :-)  Sent from my Desire HD using proboards |
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Post by Jordan Emery on Jan 13, 2013 15:48:28 GMT -5
That looks awesome!
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Post by gotareef on Jan 13, 2013 16:02:51 GMT -5
looks great! bring that new bulb you bought back $25 could buy a nice frag or two
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 13, 2013 16:44:57 GMT -5
Thanks Rob for the compliment and thank you for the light. I don't think I have the receipt though so I don't think I can return it :-(
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Post by gotareef on Jan 13, 2013 17:07:08 GMT -5
thats to bad . but you should be able to keep any coral with that light. I see a few sps corals in your future  |
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 13, 2013 18:16:46 GMT -5
LOL. I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to coral so you guys are totally going to have to help me out with that. I do know I love the zoas, brain coral, hammerhead, birds nest, frog spawn and ricordia but other than that I have no idea. I don't really know which ones are easier to care for ect
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Post by gotareef on Jan 13, 2013 19:04:36 GMT -5
everything you just listed are about the same care
with any stony coral you will need a calcium test kit and a mag test kit to keep them healthy and growing fast
with the light you have you will want to start the corals off at the bottom of the tank and move them up when they adjust
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 13, 2013 19:12:48 GMT -5
Are those stony corals? What are stony corals? I know of sps being small polyp stonies and large polyp stonies, and I know there's hard coral and soft coral but thats the extent of it LOL Are the ones i named difficult to take care of? Ill have to get some testing kits for the calcium but what is mag? I'm glad you told me to start them at the bottom because i would have put them all as close to the light as poss lol. Do you have any of these as frags rob? What do you think would be a good few starter items?
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Post by gotareef on Jan 13, 2013 19:31:50 GMT -5
there are 3 types of coral lps , sps , and softies
lps (large polyp stony) frogspawn,brain corals....
sps (small polyp stony) acro's, monti's, birdsnest......
soft corals dont make a skeleton mushrooms, palys, zoa, leathers......
there are easy and difficult species of all of them.
easier sps would be birdsnest,montipora, pavona cactus
easier lps is torch corals(frogspawn) acans, favia, duncan
the harder softies are some types of z's and p's and some ricordia, and rhodactis shrooms I say harder but basically same care as lps
mag- is magnesium, corals cant use calcium to make their skeletons without magnesium
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Post by lindsey1984 on Jan 13, 2013 21:03:44 GMT -5
Wow! Thanks! I can't wait to add some :-D
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