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Nice work and really appreciate the third graph. Really brings to light (pun intended!) how low the light is on our captive reefs compared to reefs in nature.
This is how the total PAR measured over the day look like in a graph, thanks to excel these days, it's relatively easy to make some charts for this type of use.
This is the Intensity curve from a cloudy day at a Reef in 10 feet depth.
I'm not trying to compete with the PAR levels the Reef reached, but like to compare how the curve characteristics compare to nature in a variety of views.
This is how the curves compare to each other, based on approximate starting and end points, and aspect ratio of the natural curve been kept. Very clear that I won't be able to reach the high PAR values.
Here the natural curve over the graph, referenced with start and end, as well the peaks at each other.
That is definitely something I can improve to make it more natural.
69 pages makes it a build thread and quite commonThis was at the top of the main website page when I clicked to visit the site... but darn 69 pages to consume to get to the meat of things? If reef2reef wants to highlight someone's tank they should have a page that summarizes it. It was called tank of the month on a diff website cough cough. Give the owner a heads up next time?
Yep, mostly true, exept in this case the Author contribution is for sure higher ;-)I guess i miss the old summary way of doing things with eye candy pics galore all on a single page. It really hits home the way the author/owner thinks and often the writing style is humorous. Lists all sorts of good stuff. Reading 69 pages is 20% author and 80% others...
Actually, this is temporary now since 2 years and will be broken down in a while and has to move within the house fortunately only. But that will be a nice restart. Thinking about how to restart and what to improve right now.Just found this thread, your tank is stunning! any future plans for the tank or just fragging
That's actually a brochure filling question.Andre
Would you mind talking a little about coral placement, pruning, and management. I like the “all corals” look and am curious how that plays out when you don’t know how a frag is going to grow up.
sounds great, any idea when this will happen or if your going to go bigger or anything?Actually, this is temporary now since 2 years and will be broken down in a while and has to move within the house fortunately only. But that will be a nice restart. Thinking about how to restart and what to improve right now.
I feel the tank equipment is pretty much set and chosen for running this tank down the road.
Nothing fancy really, just skimmer, siporax, 40 breeder sump, and calcium reactor along with bioball filter and a UV mainly and a Powerfilter inside the tank.
And then more sand and fish ;-)
So to answer your question in a single sentence, you play around with the animal until you found a good spot for it ;-)
Some corals I had to relocate 3-4 times to find a good spot for it. Also I know I could have for certain corals a better spot, but these are already taken by others. At some point you have to make decisions also which corals stay and which corals have to go.
This tank under this method is now a bit more then 2 years, and I did not expect this to happen so fast and so effective to be honest.