11 Year Anniversary of Our Natural Sun-Lit Reef

[jdpiii3]

Hello friends, it's the 11-year anniversary of our natural sun-lit reef tank. It has been one bumpy ride. Thanks so much for the continued support through the years. I can safely say my experiment using natural sunlight to light my reef has been a success! Please enjoy a few pictures of the reef!

Also please follow along on my reef tank build page as well.

Happy reefing!

In memory of my loving wife, Kelly!

Joe

 

[w8lifts]

What a great idea!!

 

[CoralClasher]

Wow

 

[jdpiii3]

What a great idea!!

Thanks! Huge electric savings over my old 150 with metal halides and chiller the reef stays 76-77 all day with just a fan.

 

[thatmanMIKEson]

Hello friends, it's the 11-year anniversary of our natural sun-lit reef tank. It has been one bumpy ride. Thanks so much for the continued support through the years. I can safely say my experiment using natural sunlight to light my reef has been a success! Please enjoy a few pictures of the reef!

Also please follow along on my reef tank build page as well.

Happy reefing!

In memory of my loving wife, Kelly!

Joe

I saw this tank a while ago ill have to read up on this, its a wonderful idea and beautiful display, im glad you still have it going if you do, im sorry if not like I said I will read up on it!

 

[cairolip21]

This is incredible! I love the idea and I'm sure the fish and coral do too!
Would love to do this myself but don't think my upstairs neighbors would appreciate a tube running through their living room

 

[jdpiii3]

This is incredible! I love the idea and I'm sure the fish and coral do too!
Would love to do this myself but don't think my upstairs neighbors would appreciate a tube running through their living room

Could be a problem, but then again you will never know unless you ask.

 

[Daniel@R2R]

Absolutely beautiful, Joe!

 

[gbru316]

This has always been one of my favorites!

 

[jdpiii3]

Absolutely beautiful, Joe!

This has always been one of my favorites!

Thanks so much!

 

[SamsReef]

Beautiful setup. Thank you for sharing. I am sure the fishes look divine with sun light shimmer.

Sam

 

[jmichaelh7]

Very creative

 

[Miami Reef]

Have you measured par?

 

[i cant think]

Hello friends, it's the 11-year anniversary of our natural sun-lit reef tank. It has been one bumpy ride. Thanks so much for the continued support through the years. I can safely say my experiment using natural sunlight to light my reef has been a success! Please enjoy a few pictures of the reef!

Also please follow along on my reef tank build page as well.

Happy reefing!

In memory of my loving wife, Kelly!

Joe

This is part of the ocean at another level! It looks like the exact same thing you’d see whilst diving out on the reefs. Absolutely stunning

I bet when taking photos you aren’t struggling with the blue light overpowering everything else.

 

[jdpiii3]

Have you measured par?

I get high 200s at the sand bed.

 

[jdpiii3]

This is part of the ocean at another level! It looks like the exact same thing you’d see whilst diving out on the reefs. Absolutely stunning

I bet when taking photos you aren’t struggling with the blue light overpowering everything else.

Thanks so much! When my wife and I were designing how we wanted the system to look we decided to replicate our trips diving & snorkeling in the Caribbean.

Picture taking is pretty easy, intensity does need to be brought down a bit during peak daylight times otherwise everything will get washed out without making serious adjustments to white balance and brightness.

 

[FreshCoastReef]

This is so rad! Great work @jdpiii3, I can certainly see the resemblance to snorkeling in the Caribbean. So cool.

 

[NotoriousDMC]

This. Is. Awesome.

Bravo!

 

[john92708]

wow sweets setup
any drawback?

 

[o2manyfish]

Congrats on 11 years - Hasn't been an easy path for you but the tank is a wonderful memory holder for you.

Dave B