Nice blue coloration. My Hawkins is greenish.A. echinata (ORA Hawkins), although turaki does look similar.
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Nice blue coloration. My Hawkins is greenish.A. echinata (ORA Hawkins), although turaki does look similar.
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here are a few from my reef under natural sunlight.![]()
Yeah I saw your pics before, inspiring. THAT’S a daylight tank!![]()
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here are a few from my reef under natural sunlight.![]()
I've always loved the coral but under natural sunlight the fish take center stage just look at this Yellow TangYeah I saw your pics before, inspiring. THAT’S a daylight tank!
Lol. Just scrolled back. Didn’t see the names before above pics. Yeah. I’m Alright spider.What’s the last pic? Turaki?
Totally my jam! Can’t wait to see these pics!As the titles states. I would love to see pictures of Acro's in all of their daylight glory. Just trying to get ideas as I am going to start up my 480 gallon peninsula with "old school" pieces in a couple of months. I am going to run 400w Radiums so not interested in the blue light corals.
Even if pictures are 20 years old, Let's see them! I love seeing Acro's true colors in daylight.
Let's see those Pearlberrys, Red Planets, Purple Monsters, Palmers blue millis, ....you get the jist.
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here are a few from my reef under natural sunlight.![]()
I've had very good luck with the sun domes the tubing themselves haven't needed any maintenance in 11 years the acrylic domes have been replaced one time due to some clouding that polishing and wet sanding wouldn't remove.These photos make me want to install some domes now that I am living in Florida. Just finishing my garage so it’s about the perfect time. Wish I had time to research some more in depth on it. How have your domes held up to weather and everything, still clear?
I have to admit my favorite tank was one from someone in Africa using all natural light and a huge turf scrubber. His stags looked like they were in a thriving healthy ocean.
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these arent my pictures…..they are av99’s. 14k Hamilton bulbs. His tank makes me want to switch back….great looking corals buddy! I couldn’t help but share your success.
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Bingo, anybody can shine a blue light on something and call it blue.It’s a shame that this thread is a throwback when it should be the norm. I have royal blue Reefbrite strips on one system with halides and the same strips on another system with t5.
Maybe it’s just me but if I look at my tank while it’s blue for too long (as is the norm now) it seems to hurt my eyes. It’s refreshing to see honest colors in pictures of the true beauty of our corals without having it look like we’re in a black light funhouse.
To add to this...I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen people’s tanks running a blue schedule and asked them to flip on the daylights only to see drab, browning and unhealthy corals that only looked good under their blue lights. And they usually have more algae than they know since blue light masks some problems. I want my sticks to GLOW under halides and t5’s.Bingo, anybody can shine a blue light on something and call it blue.
Yep agree with all of that.To add to this...I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen people’s tanks running a blue schedule and asked them to flip on the daylights only to see drab, browning and unhealthy corals that only looked good under their blue lights. And they usually have more algae than they know since blue light masks some problems. I want my sticks to GLOW under halides and t5’s.
LED’s (specifically royal blue and violet) many times show colors that aren’t even there. if I shined a black light in the dark at a bunch of friends, all their teeth look blue and purple and fluoresce. But are their teeth really blue? Just boggles me that people ohhh and ahhh over things that simply aren’t true. To each his own I guess, but I often find myself buying frags from people who run heavy blue schedules only to have to place them deep in a corner with less light in my tanks because they’re not ready for “real” light and need to adjust.
share with us your 14k pics....Thank you my friend! Cheers!
I will update my build thread soon with some recent coral pics photographed under daylight halides. Here is a small sample. Cheers!share with us your 14k pics....
I'm using 14k MH hamilton bulbs....they look very natural, coral seems to love them very much!