Analysis of the 3 most beautiful reef tanks on youtube

[Ardeus]

You missed the part with the discussion on why do you find those 3 wives attractive and how to make your own wife more attractive without carbon dosing.

 

[Rubberfrog]

You missed the part with the discussion on why do you find those 3 wives attractive and how to make your own wife more attractive without carbon dosing.

I carbon dose my girl with a little vodka so she finds me more attractive.

 

[homer1475]

I carbon dose my girl with a little vodka so she finds me more attractive.

I literally spit coffee on my KB. You my friend, have just won the internet.

 

[monkeyCmonkeyDo]

My current display is 19" wide! The wall behind it 3 or so feet is blue. I chose no tank background. I like how i can see through it from both sides. Thats the point right?
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[redeyejedi]

This soft coral tank is my favorite.

Aside from it. These are layouts I really find attractive.

Sod the op choices of tanks. Number 3 pic followed closely by 4 of these ones.

 

[redeyejedi]

I wouldn’t start a thread telling my fellow reefers their tanks are ugly, beauty is a very subjective matter.

Would love to see his tank.

 

[Ardeus]

Would love to see his tank.

My tank is something only a mother could love.

It's not pretty, it's dark and almost scary looking at times.

The scape is nothing like you could ever find in nature.

That being said, I managed to improve it a lot by trying to learn from freshwater aquascapers. Not all their techniques can be transposed to reefs though.

I managed to make it look deeper, make good use of shadows, have half decent proportion between the size of fish and corals and have lots of repeted corals.

 

[redeyejedi]

My tank is something only a mother could love.

It's not pretty, it's dark and almost scary looking at times.

The scape is nothing like you could ever find in nature.

That being said, I managed to improve it a lot by trying to learn from freshwater aquascapers. Not all their techniques can be transposed to reefs though.

I managed to make it look deeper, make good use of shadows, have half decent proportion between the size of fish and corals and have lots of repeted corals.

Well id love to see more of it because its a very nice one.

 

[Ardeus]

In the evening

 

[memphissfinest]

This tank is what i see as perfection. Negative aquascape, perfect choices of coral and fish. I am modeling my new tank build almost to the letter of this tank. No shame on my end in doing so either. Simply stunning to me. Took forever to acquire the Pukani rock that closely resembles his. The reefer also has a build thread on this forum.

 

[ca1ore]

No opinion on aquascape, or on reefers significant others (reefers arent all guys of course ), beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. My only observation is on the Joe Peck magnifica .... famous in CT/NY for its unique coloring and tendency to split and proliferate clones (unfortunately I don’t have one).

 

[N.Sreefer]

Eli's 30000 l reef beats all of those by and far. Imo that's the most beautiful tank on youtube

 

[Rp8]

I love how you tell him that no, he’s wrong and everyone likes that tank because you think so. Also weird that you say 99% of reef tanks are ugly, while on a reef tank site.
this whole post is super opinionated and sounds like you basically just wanting to start an argument with how it’s worded. Have fun I’m out.

 

[zalick]

...Aside from it. These are layouts I really find attractive....

This is my favorite scape ever. I tried to create something similar in my 300g and failed miserably. You need serious depth to get this look. It’s my inspiration for my next house and giant tank!

 

[Ardeus]

I also like this tank. I also love that there isn't any large fish in sight.

As an exercise, here's a constructive criticism.

If it had only 25% of the species and there were a few really large colonies it would look more natural and less messy.

You can achieve this sense of depth with a 20" deep tank.

There's a curved narrowing path - it creates depth. If the path was narrower at the back, it would look deeper.

If there were only small corals with detailed structure at the back and larger colonies at the front, it would look even deeper.

If there were distinctive layers of corals in front of each other, it would look deeper.

 

[Ardeus]

No opinion on aquascape, or on reefers significant others (reefers arent all guys of course ), beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. My only observation is on the Joe Peck magnifica .... famous in CT/NY for its unique coloring and tendency to split and proliferate clones (unfortunately I don’t have one).

Beauty is partially in the eye of the beholder.

If not, why would any person that works with visual arts study the color wheel? Why would painters and film directors study composition and lighting?

These people study "rules" that are centuries old and when they break them, they have a reason to do it.

In the end, although each one of us has his/her own preferences and can easily know if we find a reef tank beautiful or not, 99.999% of us don't know how to create something we love. It doesn't need to be this way.

 

[Ardeus]

No opinion on aquascape, or on reefers significant others (reefers arent all guys of course ), beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. My only observation is on the Joe Peck magnifica .... famous in CT/NY for its unique coloring and tendency to split and proliferate clones (unfortunately I don’t have one).

I have the most famous magnifica in the world. This stupid video has over 4 million views and it has the word sexiest in the title.



So, I just made a video about reef aquascaping and I named it sexiest reef aquascaping (and I spelled it wrong...)

 

[sde1500]

I feel like someone is trying to poetic describe abstract art to me

Exactly, sounds like someone trying hard to sound enlightened.
Thread makes no sense. Start off by stating you find all our tanks ugly. Then compare them to freshwater? We aren’t even displaying the same thing. Freshwater aquascaped tanks use plants. So it’s not comparable to our coral tanks at all. Could compare to macro tanks but even then the growth and look of the macros is different.

In the end, although each one of us has his/her own preferences and can easily know if we find a reef tank beautiful or not, 99.999% of us don't know how to create something we love.

Insert more nonsense, now not just claiming he find all our tanks ugly, but that we don’t love them.

why the need to insult our tanks? Why not use a thread discussing aquascape that matches the natural reef or freshwater look and some examples you like?

 

[Beau_B]

Maybe I’m too cynical but threads like these strike me as an attempt to drive up YouTube views.

 

[chrisgold]

That middle tank is hideous....that last one is tho is goals

Isnt it tho