Gif showing 30 days of SPS growth

[Wiskey]

Hello all!

I have a camera permanently mounted and a Raspberry Pi which takes regular pictures. This tank is still very young, but this GIF flips between photos that are from Yesterday, and 31 days ago. (Please give it a sec to load)

Just wanted to share!
EDIT --- Although this works in the Edit Context when I post it nothing happens
This link has the GIF:

Hope you like it!
Whiskey

 

[G Santana]

Dying to see, nothing to load yet!

 

[Wiskey]

Dying to see, nothing to load yet!

It doesn't seem to work on this board.

Try this link:
Growth GIF

 

[ReefCheef]

Very cool man. That's a lot of growth in 30 days for a young tank. Bravo

 

[G Santana]

Beautiful, love the pieces in the tank.
How long has the tank been up and did you start with live rock?

 

[Wiskey]

Very cool man. That's a lot of growth in 30 days for a young tank. Bravo

Thank you!!!

 

[Wiskey]

Very cool man. That's a lot of growth in 30 days for a young tank. Bravo

Thank you!!!

 

[xiaoxiy]

Which camera do you use for this? I was doing this manually for a while but got tired/swapped iPhones which made the pictures impossible to line up.

 

[Wiskey]

Beautiful, love the pieces in the tank.
How long has the tank been up and did you start with live rock?

So,.. the tank had been a leather and mushroom tank for a while, and I bought it used 5ish months ago. I then moved it, and had to move it again right after. It was a dumb time to buy because I was moving, but the deal was so good I couldn't pass it up.

My understanding is that it had been up for a long time as a leather/Mushroom tank, and that the rock was live when the tank was setup. It took some amount of reconfiguring in methodology and equipment to work as an SPS tank though.

Whiskey

 

[Wiskey]

Which camera do you use for this? I was doing this manually for a while but got tired/swapped iPhones which made the pictures impossible to line up.

At first I was using a Rasperry Pi cam which costs something like $30, you can see that setup here:

Whiskey's Reef - Growth Camera Setup

How to know if your coral is growing! One of my biggest problems is impatience. My reef is in my living room and I see it for a couple hours each day. For this reason I never notice my coral growing, consequently I fiddle with things trying to get more growth, until I stumble across an old

whiskey.xj42.com

When I moved to Oklahoma I needed to move the camera across the room and that camera was no longer the best choice. I wanted to pickup a new DSLR anyway, so I decided to use my Canon T4i with the 75-300 Kit lens that it came with. That is mounted (bolted down) above my cabinets in the kitchen and I never touch it.

Whiskey