It's my one year anniversary!

[Lonny]

Well, made it past the one year hump! No major catastrophes, a few ups and downs. The learning curve in this hobby is a steep one but but it has been the most fun and family involved hobby I've ever had. Not to mention one of the most expensive lol.
Anyway just wanted to say thank you to rev for R2R and, everyone on this forum for all the help and future help! Most of the credit for my success belongs to this forum!
Here's a pic of when I started

and here's one from today.

one year!!!!

 

[Rick.45cal]

Congrats!!! Lots of changes in the tank in that time! Looking good!

 

[Lonny]

Congrats!!! Lots of changes in the tank in that time! Looking good!

Thanks Rick!

 

[Neil Fox]

Nice job! Congratulations.

 

[SantaMonicaHelp]

Hi Lonny!
Congratulations with your first anniversary!
Your tank looks so different and fish look very healthy

I wish you to achieve more success and share with us new pictures from the second anniversary
Good Luck
-Zhenya

 

[Jmblec2]

what setting and what level of speed do you have your gyros at? Also how high is your light off the water and what are your tank dimensions? How did you seed your tank when you first started?

 

[macnets]

Awesome! How many gallons is that?

 

[Chrisfish]

Congratulations, your tank looks awesome

 

[Annabellam]

Very beautiful set up there, i love it. Congratulations on your first year anniversary. Just getting started and have a lot to learn.

 

[xREEFINaintEZx]

Amazing progress!

 

[elfda]

Wow, gorgeous! [emoji7]

 

[Pongo]

Congratulations! Love the aquascape.

 

[Lonny]

what setting and what level of speed do you have your gyros at? Also how high is your light off the water and what are your tank dimensions? How did you seed your tank when you first started?

Sorry been out of the loop for awhile, life ya know? The gyers are the second gen 250's and are set at 40%. I set them higher when I really want to stir the tank up. I started with dead pukani that I cured for six weeks in brute cans and seeded the tank with bio spira. The light is an ati power dimmable, 48" and eight bulbs. I would not buy another dimmable though. Dimming shortens the life of the bulb plus I had problems while dimming where two bulbs wouldn't light. Contacted ati and they said that happens when dimming sometimes. Thanks for the response! Oh and the gyers are set on the pre programmed oceanic gyer mode. Edit: tank dimensions are 60"x 24"x 24"

 

[Lonny]

what setting and what level of speed do you have your gyros at? Also how high is your light off the water and what are your tank dimensions? How did you seed your tank when you first started?

Oops missed the height question. Lights are 10" off the water. Six ati blue plus bulbs, one purple+, one coral+

 

[Lonny]

Awesome! How many gallons is that?

It's a 150gl home built acrylic tank with a 30+gl home built acrylic sump. Thanks for the reply!

 

[Lonny]

Very beautiful set up there, i love it. Congratulations on your first year anniversary. Just getting started and have a lot to learn.

It's the steepest learning curve of any hobby I've had. It's also been the most rewarding! Good luck keep us posted with lots of pics!

 

[GK3]

Hahahaha saw the title and your first pic. Immediately though "it's not a hard hobby if all you put in your tank is rocks." But then I actually read it and saw that was day 1. Awesome tank, really like the aqua scaping.

 

[Lonny]

Hahahaha saw the title and your first pic. Immediately though "it's not a hard hobby if all you put in your tank is rocks." But then I actually read it and saw that was day 1. Awesome tank, really like the aqua scaping.

Lol, thanks man! Appreciate the feed back.

 

[Lonny]

Hi Lonny!
Congratulations with your first anniversary!
Your tank looks so different and fish look very healthy

I wish you to achieve more success and share with us new pictures from the second anniversary
Good Luck
-Zhenya

Thank you! This tank has become my third child lol. Super happy with it and the growth of the coral. Now if I can just figure out how to bring out the proper color of each sps!

 

[Jmblec2]

Thanks for the responses. i know how life can get in the way of the fun stuff. As far as your gyre's do you use just the straight flow setting or do you use the pulse setting ect.?