Show me your REALISTIC Reef tank (No blue light, no Purple rock, No frag rack, No neon color)

[sfin52]

Wait, I did put a /s there and implied a joke cause i know it's off the intenet. Did i miss something?

No the person who posted the bleached coral. I was adding to your comment.

 

[Sump Crab]

I like a more "natural" look too

 

[mboley]

I have never said that. I said purple rock. I have seen plenty of Coralline encrusted rock while scuba diving and Snorkelling but to me this type of reef is unrealistic.

What is "this" type of reef? Coralline is predominately purple. Sure sounds like you're saying a Coralline encrusted Reef aquarium is unrealistic.

 

[JNalley]

What is "this" type of reef? Coralline is predominately purple. Sure sounds like you're saying a Coralline encrusted Reef aquarium is unrealistic.

Click the OPs links in the reply you quoted.... OP is talking about painted purple rock... Not coralline encrusted rock... It is totally obvious from the context of the posts what they mean...

 

[Sump Crab]

What is "this" type of reef? Coralline is predominately purple. Sure sounds like you're saying a Coralline encrusted Reef aquarium is unrealistic.

‍op is referring to purple painted rocks and tanks that look like a black light lit poster in a stoners room.

 

[AquaLogic]

I have never said that. I said purple rock. I have seen plenty of Coralline encrusted rock while scuba diving and Snorkelling but to me this type of reef is unrealistic.

Gotcha, I agree with you. I used to dive too (no longer live near an ocean) and I prefer a mid afternoon natural look to my reef as well. That's why I use a Kessil now, the color is easily tune-able to look natural, like when I ran metal halide in the past. I can set it to a natural look without fussing around with spectrum setting and let Kessil Logic handle all of that.

 

[Katrina71]

is that a sixline ? Looks huge haha

Oh no. Now Kevin will be all "my sixline is huge" lol

 

[SomeHappyFish]

Gotcha, I agree with you. I used to dive too (no longer live near an ocean) and I prefer a mid afternoon natural look to my reef as well. That's why I use a Kessil now, the color is easily tune-able to look natural, like when I ran metal halide in the past. I can set it to a natural look without fussing around with spectrum setting and let Kessil Logic handle all of that.

Yeah I love the look of kessils ! Might get one for for my cube.

 

[JNalley]

Gotcha, I agree with you. I used to dive too (no longer live near an ocean) and I prefer a mid afternoon natural look to my reef as well. That's why I use a Kessil now, the color is easily Tuna-Blue to look natural, like when I ran metal halide in the past. I can set it to a natural look without fussing around with spectrum setting and let Kessil Logic handle all of that.

There, fixed it for you! lol... I run an AP9X over the tank I shared in this picture... and when I first read your reply I read Tuna Blue instead of tune-able hehe. Kessil has me talking like them now!

 

[SamsReef]

Just for comparison

 

[IntrinsicReef]

Just for comparison

The shallows look like a 6500K Halide reef from the 90s, but when you pan the camera to deeper water, it looks like the light filters to blue pretty quick.

 

[Paleozoic_reefer]

Rebooted my 90 gal. by adding sand and removing some excess rock for more swim space…

 

[steveschuerger]

I use one unnatural looking rack for the torches but otherwise I try to keep it as natural looking as possible . I hope this is close enough-

 

[SandNRocks]

5.5g with FW plant light

 

[Sir Bubb]

A couple pics from my 125 under 5000k LEDs. I like the shallow water look from the whiter lights, but my clams started closing up around mid-day (corals didn’t seem bothered at all). Went back to my old lights until I can find a little time and a decent PAR meter.

 

[Lbrdsoxfan]

50/50 Reef Brite T5's cranked up.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

A couple pics from my 125 under 5000k LEDs. I like the shallow water look from the whiter lights, but my clams started closing up around mid-day (corals didn’t seem bothered at all). Went back to my old lights until I can find a little time and a decent PAR meter.

I gotta get me a Christmas tree worm rock. So cool

 

[LobsterOfJustice]

fewer total number of corals, but larger colonies give a more natural look. Also having the same coral in multiple places

 

[djf91]

Here’s my 500 gal. Under 400 watt metal halides. These are from 1 yr.+ ago. I need to get an updated video of things.

 

[IntrinsicReef]

fewer total number of corals, but larger colonies give a more natural look. Also having the same coral in multiple places

I love the look of your tank!