If it weren't for dated photos you would never really know

[MrGisonni]

My mixed reef tank is two and a half years old. I started it with caribsea life rock and it seemed to take over a year until the tank really stabilized, but that's another story. I started taking pictures of the reef and keeping them in a log. The log has been a good tool for me and I know lots of reefers keep them. My goniopora and slow burn montipora have been battling over space lately with a goniopora winning the battle. I slightly adjusted the two of them to give them a little more space and looked back to see when I added the Slow Burn. It was 6 months ago. I'm looking at the photograph amazed at the amount of growth of that coral. This thread isn't about bragging over coral growth, which I know many can, it's more about the shock of seeing how much growth happened over a 6-month period without really noticing. If it weren't for the photographs I would have never really known. This is while getting stung constantly under an AI Prime at a modified Saxby schedule.

 

[Ron Reefman]

A photo journal is a very good tool.

 

[shakacuz]

i'm also more of a picture guy myself. weirdly enough i don't take enough pictures to document growth

 

[exnisstech]

I made a new years resolution to take a video of my tanks at the beginning of each month going forward. I've been very poor at documenting my tanks in the past.

 

[mrpontiac80]

12,000 pictures on my phone and half are work, while the other half are equally my corals and fish, along with family and cars. lol

 

[Paul B]

The first 30 years that my reef existed there were no cell phone camera's so I had to take old film photo's that had no date stamp.

(Film is like Scotch tape but pictures stick to it)

 

[The_Paradox]

I can dig it. Keep a workbook for every piece of live stock by month with a sheet dedicated to parameters to track changes and trends.

 

[Rjukan]

I can dig it. Keep a workbook for every piece of live stock by month with a sheet dedicated to parameters to track changes and trends.

This is awesome.

 

[exnisstech]

The first 30 years that my reef existed there were no cell phone camera's so I had to take old film photo's that had no date stamp.

(Film is like Scotch tape but pictures stick to it)

Nothing was as cool as watching a poloroid develop right in front of my eyes. It was like magic. Well watching film develop in a dark room was pretty darn cool too. My grandfather was photographer and I was lucky enough to spend some time in the darkroom with him.