Japanese - sumthing, sumthing (pics)

it looks like a southdown type sand, in a newly established tank, packed with corals, that is probably too small to supprt a yellow tang long term, unless feeding is supplemented, but then the fish may still nip at coral polyps. but still appears unestablished.
 
birdman,

Not really sure why you typed that bit in white, but that tank looks plenty big enough for one yellow tang to me. Looks to be at least 120g to me, which is more than enough, specially considering there appears to be only one other fish (the clown).

Agreed that the tank appears freshly set up though. There seems to be no sign of cukes that could even begin to keep the sand that white... (and on top of that there is no algae growth next to the glass below the sand line - a sure sign the tank's been put together for the photo).

Tom
 
i dont think it is newly setup.. look at the back overflow on the bottom and on the side.. PURPLE coraline.. i dont think they are gonna GLUE or color in CORALINE w/ a pen.. come on now..

its hard to accept and doubts rise no doubt, but then again why always dogge and attack something like that??

and the sand, it isn't WHITE WHITE< there seems to be air bubbles, and small alage strains here and there, faintly though.. give people credit ..
 
greenfroggiespawn,

That was no attack, I was just thinking aloud. You may be right about the tank being set up for a while, though if so, I'd be surprised if it was for more than a few months. The tank might have been used before and therefore the overflow would have coralline algae growth, but I find it hard to see how a DSB tank that has been set up for much more than a month could fail to have far more obvious algae growth visible in the sand bed next to the glass. You simply can't clean that area without releasing all the waste the DSB is supposed to siphon out of the water.

Believe me, I'm a big admirer of Japanese tanks (see where I'm based?), but also know that all the tanks I've seen over here are a bit less pristine than the ones generally seen in photography shoots/magazines. I think that generally this is down to giving the tank an obsessive clean before the shoot, but occasionally (as in this example) I believe the tank has been set up not to long ago with already established corals.

Just opinions of course. Let's not paint this as a you-either-think- Japanese-tanks-are-brilliant-or-you-believe-they're-completely-fake thread. Japanese tanks are pretty varied after all (none of the LFS I know use colored spots for example....).

:)

Tom
 
I think they are all fantastic. I saw the coralline, but was very suspect. It appears to be setup in a fashion where all sides could be scraped diligently... Execpt along the back wall. The light reflectors are open, and appear to have no signs of creep, stains, or splatter , they look brand spankin'.
The tank appears to be approxiamatley 24 " wide. I would guess the overflow is 6 " or so, Cuz if it was 12 " those would be some huge corals, but the growth patter make me think they are smaller.
Don't get me wrong, I can be quoted on numerous occasions being insanley jealous of rimless open top tanks, so the tank is Awesome no doubt, husbandry is simply in question, but hey, Most of us are guilty of that at least once right?
The sand does look newly placed if it is an established tank, it can't be aged more than a few months.
All in all, I do really like it and all other tanks here. They are much better eye candy than mine :D
 
birdman,

I was working on the size of the corals, which led me to estimate the tank length as 48", depth and height at 24". It looks at least a quarter longer than my 36"24"24" tank.

Still, bit difficult to do more than guess after all...

Tom
 
i dont know before i upgraded my 55g to a 125 i had it for a little more then a year set up and my DSB was spotless and i always scrapped my glass sides front and back
Nick
 
word.. i just see alot of bashing that's all, i d k if its cuz against japanese or what not or their reef...

no doubt.. we all primp b4 a photo shoot, regardless, i think we should admire more than we pick the this or that about it. its cool yo, not necessarily to you, just for people who like to doubt this and that, and never want something be for what it is, if you know what i mean.. i mean people are critiquing this and that in more negative ways then good.. but its cool :) :)
 
I notice that all of the Japanese tanks do not have a canopy. Do they simply avoid having jumping fishes like wrasses in their tanks then?
 
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