Japanese Colorful SPS (pic)

those are awesome SPS, and the lighting they use on their tanks is insane (in a good way), i have never seen anything that compares to their setups.
 
He's certainly done a good job with that dendro. I heard that some Japanese reef-keepers are continually restocking too, but that wouldn't be the case here
I'm not sure how he does it either. I think it is more about providing the Dendro's with what they eat rather than having high nutrients. Dendronepthia eat Phytoplankton from my understanding. Maybe he doses Phyto heavily. I have also heard that the Japanese get Dendro's for the color and then throw them away when they die.
This corals are not dendro,that particulary coral from the picture is nephthea chabrol and is photosysntetic.
 
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He's certainly done a good job with that dendro. I heard that some Japanese reef-keepers are continually restocking too, but that wouldn't be the case here
I'm not sure how he does it either. I think it is more about providing the Dendro's with what they eat rather than having high nutrients. Dendronepthia eat Phytoplankton from my understanding. Maybe he doses Phyto heavily. I have also heard that the Japanese get Dendro's for the color and then throw them away when they die.
This corals are not dendro,that particulary coral from the picture is nephthea chabrol and is photosysntetic.

I figured it wasn't a dendro... has the dendro color but looks different.

Without reading through the entire old thread, I believe that's the guy that runs low calcium and alk (close to NSW) to keep down on coralline growth. Looks like he gets great growth nonetheless.

People sometimes bash the clean look of some of the Japanese tanks, but I love it. It's not natural to see coralline algae encrusted glass.

anyway now that I look at his site again, it contains one of my favorite clam images of all time... taking advantage of the boring nature of T. crocea clams...

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He's got a C. hotumatua also...

This guy's got a bunch of things that qualify under "Things I'd have if money were no object.":sad1:

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Liveaquaria had them not long ago for $1500, but I believe that's at the high end. Limited to at and around Easter Island, so it's a rare fish in an area where not much collecting is done... = high price.
 
Take this blank white picture screen.....


























Shine a red light on it, what color do you get?
Very kewl looking tank though.
 
This corals are not dendro,that particulary coral from the picture is nephthea chabrol and is photosysntetic

Well that's prolly why he is having such good luck with it ;) Beautifull coral. I wonder why we don't see them here in the US more often.
 
this pics are unreal, can you see the same corals changing colors from one inch to another??
nice pics and tank, but I just donÃ"šÃ‚´t buy that (itÃ"šÃ‚´s envy talking in here :-) )
 
I've tried a red halogen on my tank but it looks kinda ugly.

Maybe I have a small tank and the spread is not that great.

The red color really lights up the blue spss into a purple color. Pretty cool effect. I had to take it off because the shimmering from the halogens (especially a red one) really made me dizzy.

I don't know the long time effects of it too.
 
Love the tank, not so wild about all the equipment. Great if you like to tinker and are part engineer, but I'd be spending too much time trying to make it all run :lol:

Between, sumps & pumps, fuges & skimmers, MH, fans, powerheads, wavemakers, digital temp gauges, heaters, ballasts & powerstrips, topoffs & RO/DI, I already feel like someone should give me a degree in pseudo engineering :D
 
Someone asked about putting a red filter over a halogen to get the same results. Yes it will work but it will eat a lot of light too. Depending on the density of the filter/gel you can easily lose up to %50 of the output of the light.
 
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