Lighting

PC's!

I just bought a 65 watt coralife from petco. I plan on buying another one in the near future if i decide i want a reef. If not, ill just keep the light i have and have fish only. Good news! no salt creep with a complete open top! Got a background for the tank, pegs for the light to sit on, and i think it looks really good. Tell me what you think. I know 95% of you disagree on my lighting but thats what i chose. Please excuse the picture quality. I usually take them on my phone and them upload them via bluetooth but my phone died and it is charging so now i have to take it with my laptop (i have a mac).

As a side note, most of the liverock i bought came with caroline algae so i was pretty happy when i discovered that. Hopefully that helps it spread faster.

 

yea salt creep comes with high evaporation. i dont think you will have bad evaporation since you dont have a skimmer. skimmer will usually increase the evaporation buy cleaning the water of stuff that will create a surface film..

 

looks good! if you plan on corals in the future, invest in a nice T5 fixture. I had pc's and was somewhat limited in what I could keep. You'll be happier in the long run.